The ramblings of a wannabe cineaste. Join me as I dissect the art of storytelling in films, comics, TV shows, and video games.
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Review: Scream (2022)
[The following review contains MINOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] The most recent chapter in the Scream saga opens with a simple...
Review: Three Thousand Years of Longing
[The following review contains MINOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] From the operatic, post-apocalyptic thrills of the Mad Max series...
Informal Pitch: A Modernized, Mixed Media Parody of A Christmas Carol
Synopsis: Christian Bale plays Silas Croodge, a greedy, miserly, out-of-touch corporate executive that has recently acquired a popular...
Review - Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero
[The following review contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] In light of Dragon Ball’s enduring popularity—indeed, the...
Bodies Bodies Bodies: Burying the Lede
[The following essay contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] [Seriously, I LITERALLY GIVE AWAY THE ENDING IN THE FIRST PARAGRAPH;...
Inu-Oh: Rebel Yell
From Lu Over the Wall to Ride Your Wave, animator Masaaki Yuasa’s films have always involved songs to some extent, but Inu-Oh is the...
Bullet Train: Nonstop Service to Destiny
Fate. Karma. Luck. Do such intangible forces truly govern the trajectory of human existence? Or is our suffering simply the result of...
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness: Inner Demons
There was no other way. It’s no hyperbole to claim that Doctor Strange played an instrumental role in thwarting Thanos’ genocidal...
Nope: #CloseEncounters
[The following essay contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] The Digital Age has transformed mankind into a society of insatiable...
Review: Elvis
I apologize in advance if this review seems jumbled, disjointed, or confused; unfortunately, utter incoherence is the default response to...
Review: The Black Phone
[The following review contains MINOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] In the works of Stephen King, such mundane terrors as abusive...
Lafcadio Hearn's In Ghostly Japan: The Afterlife of the Author
I was not emotionally prepared for what I encountered within the pages of In Ghostly Japan. I was only vaguely familiar with author...
Crimes of the Future: The New Flesh
[The following essay contains MINOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] Over the course of his career, David Cronenberg has become...
Everything Everywhere All at Once: Laundry and Taxes
[The following essay contains SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] One of Everything Everywhere All at Once’s many spectacularly...
Cyrano: All the Words I Don’t Have
[The following essay contains SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] Early on in Cyrano, Joe Wright’s delightfully maximalist musical...
Mamoru Hosoda's Belle: Form and Function in a Tale as Old as Time
Belle is Mamoru Hosoda’s most artistically accomplished work to date. As a longtime fan of The Girl Who Leapt Through Time and Summer...
Valentine’s Day Movie Recommendation: Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop
I’m a skeptic by nature. When the blandly attractive heroes and heroines in romcoms talk about “love at first sight” and “true love,” I...
Joel Coen’s The Tragedy of Macbeth: The Bard Distilled
A24’s The Tragedy of Macbeth begins with narration over a blank screen. William Shakespeare’s familiar verse immediately establishes the...
Best Supporting Performances of 2021
Thanks to the valiant efforts of talented character actors, supporting roles are often far more memorable than any given film’s supposed...





















