Category: Movies
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One Thing I Like About Hundreds of Beavers
The live-action cartoon is exactly the right kind of so-lowbrow-it’s-clever, especially when it’s acknowledging its own artifice
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One Thing I Love About Companion
Companion is so confident and clever that it feels like a fresh and insightful take on some fairly well-worn ideas. Lots of spoilers in this post.
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One Thing I Like About Alien: Romulus
The best sequence in the movie also serves as an illustration of how Alien movies are best when they keep the lore and world-building in service of the cinematic moments. (Spoilers for Romulus and potentially the entire Alien franchise).
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One Thing I Like About Ready or Not
Ready or Not is a black comedy/suspense movie that feels completely like an independent production
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One Thing I Like About Abigail
Abigail is a mean, gory, often funny, action/horror movie that I hope never becomes a franchise
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One Thing I Like About It Follows
It Follows lays all of its metaphors out in the open, but rarely feels as if there’s no room for interpretation
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Trainwreck Revisited
Reconsidering my take on a mostly-forgettable movie from 2015 that is still depressingly relevant
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Breakin’ Necks With Kal-El & Zod
Reconsidering a now-mostly-irrelevant superhero movie, and the dangers of meeting a story halfway
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Dead Meat and A Coward’s Guide to Horror Movies
Recommending an extremely popular YouTube channel that happens to be exactly what I’ve been looking for
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Paved with some sort of intention
Follow-up post about Late Night With the Devil, with a few spoiler-filled questions and criticisms
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One Thing I Like About Late Night With The Devil
The story of a 1970s late night talk show that aired a live demon possession