The ramblings of a wannabe cineaste. Join me as I dissect the art of storytelling in films, comics, TV shows, and video games.
O'GRADY FILM

Review: Thunderbolts*
[ The following review contains MINOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] As far as the art of adaptation goes, Thunderbolts* manages to...
Review: Until Dawn
[ The following review contains MINOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] On paper, a cinematic adaptation of Sony’s Until Dawn franchise...
Review: The Little Girl of Hanoi
The Little Girl if Hanoi is a work of North Vietnamese propaganda. Which isn’t a judgment of the film’s quality, but rather a neutral...
Review: To Live and Die in L.A.
[ The following review contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] William Friedkin’s The French Connection ends with the...
Review: A Minecraft Movie
In 2013, Red Letter Media’s Rich Evans coined the term “non-medy” to describe humor with a negative value of entertainment. Imagine a...
Review: Across 110th Street
[ The following review contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] Recently, I read The Devil Finds Work , a collection of essays by...
Review: A Working Man
[ The following review contains MINOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] A Working Man offers the exact sort of experience you’d expect...
Review: Orochi
[ The following review contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] Orochi is one of those miracles of film preservation: a...
Review: In the Lost Lands
[ The following review contains MINOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] In the Lost Lands is a movie produced to appeal to...
Review: Mickey 17
[ The following review contains MINOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] Mickey 17 is the most compellingly horrifying dystopian sci-fi...
Review: All Shall Be Well
[ The following review contains SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] All Shall Be Well is best classified as a horror film—though not in...
Review: Conclave
Conclave is a film about faith; it explores the sins of pride and hypocrisy, the virtues of doubt and uncertainty, and the terrible...
Review: The Monkey
[ The following review contains SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] The Monkey —an adaptation of a Stephen King short story that also...
Review - Captain America: Brave New World
[ The following review contains SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] Captain America: Brave New World is fine. It’s neither the best comic...
Review: The Little Girl Who Conquered Time
[ The following review contains MINOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] The Little Girl Who Conquered Time (also known as The Girl Who...
Review: I Are You, You Am Me (Exchange Students)
[ The following review contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] Body-swap stories are a dime a dozen in Japanese pop culture...
Review: Presence
Presence is a fascinating formal experiment. Plenty of horror movies utilize camerawork that resembles the gravity-defying movement of a...
Review: The Colors Within
[ The following review contains SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] Naoko Yamada’s The Colors Within is a work of sublime subtlety. Unlike...
Review: Female Trouble
[ The following review contains MINOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] Obscene. Perverse. Profane. Depraved. Grotesque. These...





















