Cinematic Smackdown: The Tragedy of Macbeth vs True Grit
What happens when Joel Coen brings the full force of his filmmaking skills to an adaptation
Tuesday Tune Two-Fer: F-f-f-Foolin’ the Rain
Two tangentially-related tunes from my totally hardcore adolescence
Tuesday Tune Two-Fer: Point/Counter-point: Why Were We Born?
Two tangentially related tunes asking the big questions
Ride through mansions of glory on happiness machines
Mario Kart World and the joy of false nostalgia
One Thing I Like About The Roses
The Roses is a much lighter and funnier adaptation of a story that doesn’t lose its edge by choosing to be sincere
Don’t bring me down, Bruce
Rewatching Jaws for its 50th anniversary
The only way to begin is by beginning
A fan letter to Dropout for showing how you don’t have to give up your core values to be successful
The Genie Has Left the Bottle
Getting mad at an infuriatingly insipid AI video and thinking about how much of the bubble is genuinely inevitable.
One Thing I Like About Honey Don’t!
Honey Don’t! is the kind of independent, noir-tinged, straightforward detective story that just doesn’t get made anymore. (No significant spoilers)
Tuesday Tune Two-Fer: You Have To Believe We Are Magic
I’ll tell you this week’s two tangentially-related tunes as long as you say the magic word
Disney Destinations vs Disney Settings
A simple but easy-to-forget observation about theme parks and chasing nostalgia
Literacy 2025: Book 24: Hidden Pictures
Jason Rekulak’s thriller about a young woman hired as nanny to a bright child whose drawings reveal a dark presence hiding in the house