Altverse
Ari maps condemned buildings and finds a projector with forty-three symbols on its ring, each one a different world. Speculative fiction with a documenter at the center.
Tag: Writing Craft (Page 49)
FictionButtercup
A memoir told by a cat. Ten years in a Los Angeles apartment with Claudia, who was funny and sick, and the two weeks between her death and Buttercup's.
ConsciousnessCollision With Andromeda
The Milky Way is conscious and has a plan that humanity is part of. Seventeen million years, one family, and a galaxy whose good intentions arrive at galactic scale.
Fiction WritingThe Greatest Cruise Ship and Ocean Liner Films
Twenty films set on cruise ships and ocean liners, from Titanic's class-divided sinking to Triangle of Sadness's savage yacht satire to The Love Boat's aspirational not-sinking. The ship is never just a ship. It's a floating world, a class system,…
Cult ClassicMovies Rotten Tomatoes Got Dead Wrong
Twenty-one 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 measures, and the political bias that explains why Disney's worst remakes score 90% while audiences…
CountercultureThe Greatest Road Movies
Twenty road movies covering every register of the genre, from Easy Rider's counterculture elegy to The Straight Story's 240-mile lawnmower journey to Mad Max: Fury Road's two-hour chase. The road does not take you to a destination. It takes you…
Film ListThe Greatest Zombie Films
Twenty zombie films covering six decades and every register of the genre, from Romero's shopping mall satire to Korean historical drama to a Japanese comedy built around a single 37-minute take. The zombie scares us because it used to be…
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 freedom.…
Fiction WritingFilms That Would Have Been Great If the Studio Had Stayed Out
Twenty films damaged by studio interference, from Blade Runner's imposed voiceover to The Magnificent Ambersons footage burned to recover silver. What the director intended, what the studio delivered, and which director's cuts are worth seeking out. Studios are rarely wrong…
Fiction WritingThe Most Seductive Films Ever Made
Twenty films that understand how desire works on screen, from Body Heat's oppressive heat to Carol's charged glances across a department store. The most seductive films are not the most explicit. Desire lives in the space before. Tension is the…
Cold WarThe Greatest Spy Films
Twenty spy films covering the full spectrum from Bond's glamour to le Carré's paranoia: procedural thrillers, Cold War tragedies, satires, and action cinema. Every spy film is answering one of two questions: what would it feel like to be a…
AnimationThe Greatest Animated Films
Twenty animated films spanning eight decades and five countries, from Snow White's invention of the form to Spider-Verse's reinvention of it. Animation is not a genre. It's a medium. The best films in it aren't children's films that adults can…