For good or for bad, the Zack Snyder Effect is alive and well within Hollywood. While movie studios previously released director’s cuts long before 2021, the DCEU filmmaker reintroduced the public to the process by dropping a black-and-white version of… Continue Reading →
Unknowingly, I have become a big fan of ancient technology. After my mother passed away a couple of years ago, I inherited a few items that were incredibly sentimental. And because I’m a huge fan of nostalgia, I embraced them… Continue Reading →
Going into 2026, I’ve found myself genuinely optimistic about the state of horror in a way I haven’t felt in a while. Not the cautious “maybe this year won’t be a disaster” optimism, but the kind that comes from looking… Continue Reading →
I’m starting to wonder if my movie tastes have quietly drifted out of sync with the critical consensus. Not in a “everyone else is wrong” way, but in that slow realization that the movies hitting me hardest are often the… Continue Reading →
I have a long, complicated history with group projects. Not the school kind, where some kid named Kyle shows up with nothing but a Capri-Sun and the confidence of a man who did zero work, but the adult kind: meetings,… Continue Reading →
As defined early within Gus Van Sant’s new film, a “dead man’s wire” — the modern term originally derived from “dead man’s line” — is a simple device, much like a harness, that’s wrapped around a loaded gun and its… Continue Reading →
The 2024 awards season was very good to Jesse Eisenberg. A Real Pain received much acclaim and numerous awards, but it also allowed the multi-hyphenate filmmaker to make a victory lap, of sorts, afterward and take on more behind-the-camera opportunities… Continue Reading →
I have always been fascinated by the little snap judgments people make when they think no one is watching. Growing up, I saw it all the time. Someone would clutch their purse a little tighter when a stranger walked by,… Continue Reading →
Growing up, I didn’t just stumble into murder mysteries — I was practically raised on them. My mom always had the TV tuned to Murder, She Wrote, Matlock or Jake and the Fatman (a title that confused me for years as… Continue Reading →
Summer 2025 has been a feeding frenzy for my two biggest obsessions: comics and horror. Those are the twin engines that usually drive my choices in pop culture. But the beauty of this summer has been how those passions bled… Continue Reading →
Secret Mall Apartment Stashes Hidden Truths
The 2024 awards season was very good to Jesse Eisenberg. A Real Pain received much acclaim and numerous awards, but it also allowed the multi-hyphenate filmmaker to make a victory lap, of sorts, afterward and take on more behind-the-camera opportunities… Continue Reading →