Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) Review
Hugh Jackman's nostalgia return at the cost of Logan's emotional finality. Wesley Snipes's Blade, the comic-source costume, and excessive snarkiness.
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2020sDoctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022) Review
Sam Raimi brought specific horror-genre filmmaking sensibility to the production. Stephen Strange has been navigating the consequences of the multiverse opening that the Spider-Man: No Way Home spells produced.
Disney+The Emasculation Of The MCU
An essay on the systematic diminishment of established male characters across Phase Four and Phase Five of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. This essay engages with a specific craft pattern in the post-Endgame Marvel Cinematic Universe: the systematic diminishment of established…
1990sPretty Woman (1990) Review
Beautifully crafted, morally indefensible. Pretty Woman is simultaneously one of the best-made films of 1990 and one of the most socially destructive.
1970sThe Andromeda Strain (1971) Review
Crichton's first major bestseller, Robert Wise's procedural patience, and Kate Reid's underrated Dr. Leavitt. The 6.5 reflects what those incomplete viewings have confirmed: the film is terrifying in a slow, low-key way that few other 1971 science fiction films attempted,…
2000sThe Italian Job (2003) Review
The production closed the intersection for seven days, used 300 cars to recreate the gridlock, and ran the sequence with the kind of practical-effects commitment most modern action films have stopped attempting. Gary Gray made a film that loves its…
Cult ClassicMovies Rotten Tomatoes Got Dead Wrong
Twenty films that Rotten Tomatoes scored wrong — from Blade Runner's lukewarm 1982 reception to Soldier's inexplicable 10%. Why critics get films wrong, what the aggregator actually measures, and the political bias that explains why Disney's worst remakes score 90%…
Disney+Films That Needed Someone to Say No
Twenty films damaged not by studio interference but by its absence — from The Phantom Menace's unchecked Lucas to The Hobbit's nine hours of one children's book. The right No at the right moment is as valuable as any creative…
CrimeGreatest Serial Killer Films and TV Episodes
Twenty films and TV episodes that use the serial killer as a lens for examining the world rather than as spectacle — from Silence of the Lambs to Mindhunter. What separates the serious from the exploitative, and what fiction writers…
AdaptationFilms That Ruined the Book
Twenty adaptations that lost what made the source worth adapting — from I Am Legend's inverted ending to The Hobbit's inflated scale to The Golden Compass's defanged argument. What went wrong in each case, and the one question every adapter…
Film ListModern Movie Slop
Twenty-one films that demonstrate every way contemporary Hollywood goes wrong — franchise necromancy, prestige self-indulgence, IP strip-mining, and the Disney live action remake program that has been telling audiences their money is welcome and their taste is not. With craft…
Fiction WritingFilms That Blew Their Ending
From Signs' water-allergic aliens to Game of Thrones' Bran — twenty-five films that built something worth watching and then blew it in the final act. What went wrong in each case, and what writers can learn from every mistake.