2010sSeptember 10, 2026
Parasite (2019) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A house built on a vertical axis, a family climbing it, and a genre change at the midpoint that almost no film survives. The first non-English winner of Best…
AmbitionSeptember 10, 2026
All About Eve (1950) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. The best script ever written about ambition, in a film where everybody is intelligent and nobody has to be dim for the schemer to win. Fourteen nominations,…
2020sSeptember 10, 2026
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A tech billionaire's private island weekend where the solution is that the clever man has nothing inside. Better as satire than as a puzzle.
2020sSeptember 10, 2026
Triangle of Sadness (2022) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A luxury cruise, a great deal of vomit, and an island where the toilet manager is in charge. Blunt satire in three parts, and the third one…
1980sSeptember 10, 2026
Brazil (1985) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A clerical error kills the wrong man and a whole film proceeds from a typo. The most internally consistent world in the genre, and Gilliam fought Universal for two…
ComedySeptember 9, 2026
Wilde produced a body of work you could read in a fortnight, and he is quoted more than writers with forty books. The reason is mechanical, not mystical: he built the surprise into the sentence instead of the paragraph, and…
AprilSeptember 9, 2026
Pratchett left school at seventeen, spent seven years as press officer for four nuclear power stations, and wrote forty-one Discworld novels that made him the best-selling author in Britain. He was dismissed as a comic fantasy writer for most of…
Book ReviewsSeptember 7, 2026
Scott Adams built the Dilbert Principle from thousands of emails he received in the early nineties from people describing their own workplaces, which is why the satire still lands three decades later. The book argues that companies don't just promote…
Book ReviewsJune 3, 2026
A savage satire of consumerism, masculinity, and modern emptiness, narrated by an insomniac everyman drawn into an underground fighting society by the anarchic Tyler Durden. Stylish, violent, blackly funny, and built on one of fiction's most famous twists. A cult…
Book ReviewsJune 3, 2026
The novel that gave the language the phrase catch-22 itself: a savage, absurdist masterpiece of war and bureaucracy, darkly hilarious and genuinely furious beneath the comedy. Its deliberately disorienting structure rewards patience. A landmark of satire, held from the top…
Book ReviewsMay 29, 2026
Narrated by Patrick Bateman, who describes murders and designer labels in the same flat voice, this is a genuinely sharp satire of consumer emptiness and an extreme experiment in unreliable narration, also punishing and arguably self-defeating in its excess. Important…
1980sMay 19, 2026
A drifter discovers sunglasses that reveal the wealthy elite are alien creatures controlling humanity through subliminal messaging. They Live is John Carpenter's 1988 American science-fiction horror film depicting a drifter who discovers sunglasses that reveal the wealthy elite are alien…
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