Movies

Author’s Note: As mentioned in my review of Spider-Man: Brand New Day, I’ve spent the last few weeks traveling, during which time I was able to watch The Odyssey but unable to review it. In the meantime, hundreds of articles have been published, written by critics straining their vocabulary (or …

Author’s Note: Sorry for the late posting, I’ve been visiting family over the last few weeks, which is more than enough time for most people who want to see Spider-Man: Brand New Day to have seen it. As such, this review contains SPOILERS for the entire MCU up to this …

For decades’ worth of comics, Superman, aka Kal-El, aka the Last Son of Krypton, has had galaxy-spanning adventurers. Yet, outside of a few extra-terrestrial threats, the films very rarely depict anything happening beyond our own world. Instead, Superman is portrayed as someone who had been born on another planet but …

Over the last few years, I’ve been making an effort to break several of my own personal patterns. This includes my aversion to horror films. I used to tell people that it wasn’t horror what bothered me; it was what my imagination did after the images entered my consciousness. Once …

Ryland Grace awakens to find himself bound within several layers of plastic and bombarded with agonizingly simple questions from a robot testing how much brain function he lost during a medically induced coma that lasted maybe weeks, months, or even years. We watch as Grace (Ryan Gosling) stumbles and mumbles …

Author’s Note: ‘Hamnet’ opened last week in my area. Includes spoilers shown in movies trailers and in a 400-year-old play. Sad to say but art has always been a product. Ever since the advent of the “professional artist,” art itself has been a commodity to be bought and sold. Even …

This was not an easy list to make. Not because it was difficult to find ten great films released in the United States in 2025, nor because there were more great films released in that time than in other years, although more so the latter than the former. This list …

In support of his latest 400-million-dollar blockbuster, filmmaker James Cameron told The Hollywood Reporter that his entire career has focused on answering cinema’s “toughest, most fulfilling artistic problem,” in a way that will also, “appeal to a mass audience.” Over forty years this approach has led to Cameron pioneering or …

There are few things in existence more powerful than a story. Far beyond entertainment, stories are how we as finite creatures pass experiences and knowledge from one generation to the next. All that we know of ourselves, of our world, and of our place in our world is determined by …

Sunk Cost Fallacy is the feeling that you need to remain loyal to something because you’ve already sunk so much time, money, or other resources into it. It’s the reason why investors continue throwing money at failing businesses or people remain in long-term relationships that only hurt them. It’s why …

Bob Ferguson, formerly known as Ghetto Pat and Rocketman, strains to remember the code sequences drilled into his mind following the dissolution of his revolutionary group, the French 75. He screams brutal and detailed threats of consequences if he isn’t told the location where his daughter, Willa, was taken to …

'Superman' and 'Fantastic Four: First Steps' are similar in many ways, one being their idealism. For example, that two film franchise can both be good!

Interpretation is a fascinating thing. From religion and mythology to art and entertainment, and, in our modern time, science and fact, how one chooses to interpret an event, item, or idea speaks volumes about that person, their values, and their view of the world. On some occasions interpretation is a …

I’ve never cared about auto racing. Sure, there was a brief time in the 90’s when racing reached the larger cultural zeitgeist and I tried watching Nascar, Formula 1, and off-road races on ESPN before deciding they weren’t for me. Every race would start with a burst of speed and …

Let’s face it, the MCU has been in a dark place for the last few years. While far from the dire situation that sensationalized, “MCU is Dead,” articles and video essays portray, the studio has struggled to recapture the immense critical and commercial success of the 2010’s. Granted, such a …