Looper (2012) Review
May 12, 2026
Rian Johnson's time travel thriller. Joseph Gordon-Levitt transforming into Bruce Willis through accumulated choices.
2010sMay 12, 2026
Rian Johnson's time travel thriller. Joseph Gordon-Levitt transforming into Bruce Willis through accumulated choices.
2010sMay 12, 2026
The most contrived blockbuster of the decade. The 4 reflects honest evaluation of one of the most commercially successful films in cinema history.
Alternate HistoryMay 12, 2026
How comic book conventions imported into serialized cinema removed consequences and destroyed the franchise. The multiverse essay on MCU collapse.
ComedyMay 12, 2026
Why Infinity War and Endgame collapsed. An essay on Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame, and the central structural failure that defined the MCU's transition from peak franchise to declining property.
1990sMay 11, 2026
Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, and the time-loop comedy that doubles as theology. Studied in religion classes and philosophy seminars.
2000sMay 11, 2026
A father in 1969 talks to his son in 1999 through a ham radio during an aurora. The film works on a viewer who comes to it cold.
AdaptationApril 20, 2026
A Victorian scientist builds a time machine because his wife is dying. Thirty stops across a billion years, grounded in real science, with the woman who actually ran the expedition.
1990sMarch 20, 2026
First Contact is the best Star Trek film after Wrath of Khan, and that's a significant statement given how many entries the franchise has produced. What separates it from the rest is a structural decision that most franchise filmmaking refuses…
2010sMarch 20, 2026
Edge of Tomorrow earns its 8.5 by doing the one thing time-loop narratives almost never manage: making the repetition feel earned instead of gimmicky. Cage doesn't loop because the script needed a device.
Film TrilogyMarch 20, 2026
The Back to the Future trilogy earns its 9.5 by solving the hardest problem in serialized storytelling: making three films that each stand alone while building a cumulative argument none of them could make individually. Zemeckis and Gale understood something…
1990sMarch 20, 2026
James Cameron's most audacious decision in Terminator 2 isn't the liquid metal effects or the freeway chase or the nuclear dream sequence. It's taking his own iconic villain and making him the film's emotional center.
1980sMarch 20, 2026
The original Terminator is a good film that time has treated unevenly. The effects that were groundbreaking in 1984 show their age in ways that occasional.
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