Film

It’s been a cliché for a long time that we’re always changing as we age, but are the more important changes physical or psychological? Sure, physically, our bodies start weak, grow stronger and then spend decades discovering new aches and maladies, but psychologically is where things get really interesting. If you feel like following me […]

I‘m not one for New Year’s resolutions. In December I tend to hyperfocus on the things that I could improve in my future like financial security, achieving emotional availability in relationships and maybe just being less of an awkward dork. Then by mid-January, when I’m still a broke dork with unclimbable emotional walls, I spiral […]

During the quarantine period of COVID I got pretty scared. I’ll always remember lying in bed at night and feeling a tickle in the back of my throat, making me positive that I was going to start struggling to breathe by the morning. Every day it was some new aspect of fear that would creep […]

Historically, January is widely considered to be the dumping ground for theatrical movies studios don’t have any faith in. They slide them into the multiplex after the prestige movies of December, but before Oscar nominees start getting re-released in theaters leading up to the big show. I’ve been taking the doldrums of Theatrical January for […]

OK, so do we think Nicolas Cage is a brilliant actor who doesn’t get the credit he deserves or is he an overrated hack who only made it in Hollywood because of his nepo baby bonafides? I’m not sure a middle ground exists, as everyone I talk to falls in one camp or another, some […]

This is one of those movies that none of you are going to believe is actually great until you see it, so right here is a good time to just quit reading and maybe go check out the new “Godzilla” movie. Even if you don’t like Kaiju films (although, really, what is there not to […]

This is the time of year my mildly OCD self starts making several Best Of the Year lists: One for movies, one for shows, one for music and one for books. I know that I consume more media than the average human person, but technically, it’s my job, so I don’t really feel that bad […]

Around 30 minutes into Ridley Scott’s new historical epic, “Napoleon,” I realized the sly old genius had completely tricked the studios, audiences and producers about what kind of movie he was making, with possibly only his writer, David Scarpa, and his two lead actors, Joaquin Phoenix and Vanessa Kirby, in on the joke. See, “Napoleon,” […]