In my 2022 round-up, I tentatively asked if movies were back. In 2023, movies were back in a way I never saw coming. Last year, my favorite ...

Are movies “back”? Are studios allowed to stop blaming COVID for keeping people away from theaters? Was 2022 an encapsulation of where cinem...

It just dawned on me that I began this blog in September 2007 (wow does time fly) and while I spend more of my movie time on my podcast , I ...

I love highlighting intense films. Movies that are emotionally brutal, devastating, gut-wrenching, you get it. I’ve done that for years on t...

The two things I miss most about blogging regularly is, first and foremost, being able to engage with the wonderful readers in the comment s...

We made it through another year of pandemic cinema. In general, I think the industry found its footing a little better following a disastrou...

When I started podcasting in July 2020, I promised myself that I wouldn’t let this blog fall off. But it only took me a few weeks to learn t...

Who could have guessed that when we sat down in the theater to watch The Invisible Man , or Bad Boys 3 , or The Lodge , that it would be the...

Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler is one of my favorite character studies of the last 15 years. It remains my favorite film of 2008, and one ...

Well it’s about damn time I post my top 10 of the 2010 decade. Pro tip: Recording and editing your own podcast takes up a shit load of pers...

Well, it looks like I’m just another asshole who started a movie podcast. For two years, my best friend and filmmaking partner, Nick Dostal,...

The only issue with watching every movie that has won an Oscar for acting, Best Picture, Director, and Screenplay is that by the time I’m re...

I’ve been taking a little blogging break because, hell, I don’t know, it seems weird to write about movies when so many American streets l...

My Oscar binge continues, this time with thoughts on every Best Director Oscar. Best Director and Best Picture have gone to different film...

I’m been making use of my COVID-19 quarantine the best way I know how, by watching a ton of movies and writing about them. When I was a ...