Cinema is a beautiful medium that allows stories to visually explore universal truths of life, the struggles we all face as human beings. A lonely journey through space symbolizes the grieving process for Ryan as she copes with the loss…

There are so many logic-insulting choices in Black Adam that a full discussion would be the length of a novel. So I’m only going to focus on two of these “What in the world were they thinking?” moments. The first…

Is it possible for a movie like Smile to be insulting? That’s the question I’ve spent a few days thinking about. I saw the movie. Realized the movie was about trauma. Waited to see what it said about trauma. Then…

Ever since I watched Not Okay, which was about two weeks ago, I haven’t been able to shake this feeling. Despite being someone who’s constantly rolling his eyes at the Gen Z placating in movies, who is sick of filmmakers…

Me Time is a movie that has no shot in today’s movie culture. It’s pure slapstick; farcical absurdity; unflinching insanity. You know, the kind of movie that used to be a dime a dozen, back when Cary Grant and Katharine…

On May 16, 2002, Star Wars: Attack of the Clones made its theatrical debut. Set ten years after the events of the first Star Wars prequel film The Phantom Menace, the latest project from the visionary mind of George Lucas was all anybody talked about…

Cinema is Dead. Long Live Post-Cinema. Two key things occur in the opening minutes of Jurassic World Dominion: A T-Rex interrupts a drive-in movie as melting celluloid is projected across it. CG dinosaurs are imposed into viral video clips, some of…

I didn’t see Morbius in theaters because the trailers gave me, and many other people, zero confidence in the film. But I finally watched it. And it was surprisingly mediocre. I had expected Chernobyl. Not the brilliant HBO show Chernobyl.…

Here’s the heart of the issue with Thor: Love and Thunder—the movie never takes anything seriously. Thor’s existential crisis. Jane Foster’s cancer and death. Asgard’s kidnapped children. Gorr’s god butchering. These are richly charged situations filled with emotional and thematic…

Hollywood films have gone from a sense of superiority when it comes to other cultures, often using characters and culture as opportunities for tired jokes, to a much more collectivist, appreciative, and receptive tone. It’s one of the benefits of…

I’m calling it now, America Chavez (Xochitl Gomez) is the MCU’s gateway to introducing the X-Men. Let me explain. Why the MCU had no mutants If you haven’t noticed, the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is pretty light on mutants. As…