Publications

December 24, 2025

Quiet Christmas Contemporary Classics

The holidays are here, and we all reach for the same movies every year. The past decade, however, has given us plenty of quiet Christmas cont...

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December 24, 2025

An Adaptation for Christmases Past, Present, and Future: ‘The Muppet Christmas Carol’ 33 Years Later

Charles Dickens’ seminal work, A Christmas Carol, has burrowed into the fabric of mainstream culture. If you celebrate Christmas or even if y...

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December 23, 2025

December Analysis: 'One Battle After Another' Leads Oscar Race

As the new Year looms on the horizon, so does the awards glory for Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another. With Best Film wins at th...

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December 22, 2025

10 Confident, Cunning Films for Capricorn Season

As Sagittarius Season sizzles out, the sun moves into Capricorn bright and early on December 21, staying there until January 19. Coffee in ha...

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December 22, 2025

Review: ‘Ella McCay’ Wacked the Patriotism Out of Me

If there is one thing Hollywood loves to do, it's make films about how amazing it is to be American and how it is the best country in the wor...

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December 20, 2025

What To Watch After 'I Love LA' Ends

The season finale of I Love LA drops on HBO and Max this Sunday, and, if you're like me, it's been appointment viewing every week thus far. H...

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December 19, 2025

Review: ‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ is a Darker, Messier Return to Pandora at its Breaking Point

*Contains spoilers for Avatar: Fire and Ash* It’s impossible to talk about Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) without first thinking about th...

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December 19, 2025

Review: ‘Merrily We Roll Along’ Proshot Theatrical Release Reminds Us to Live in the Now

How did you get to be here? What was the moment? The unique power of cinema, culture, and their mutual references became evident to me...

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December 18, 2025

Review: ‘La Grazia’ is a Beautiful Exploration of Love, Loss, and the Power of Letting Go

Only knowing Paolo Sorrentino from his Academy Award win for Best Foreign Film 2013 for The Great Beauty, I found myself interested in La Gra...

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December 17, 2025

Review: ‘Silent Night, Deadly Night’ Returns to the Big Screen with a Romantic and Vicious Remake

In 1984, Silent Night, Deadly Night petrified the American public when it was released in theaters, featuring an iconic poster of an axe-wiel...

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December 16, 2025

Review: ‘The Housemaid’ Fails To Construct A Clear Psychological Thriller

The plot of the new psychological thriller, The Housemaid, is simple enough: a young woman with a troubled past becomes a wealthy family’s li...

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December 15, 2025

Trend Analysis: Is 2025 The Year of Bad Moms and Anxious Women?

Over the past two years, my colleagues and I have discussed how the horror genre visualizes female anxiety about body autonomy. With the over...

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December 12, 2025

Review: 'Pillion' Fills the BDSM-Sized Hole in Audiences’ Hearts

What do you get when you take an introverted man singing Christmas tunes at a pub in Kent who stumbles across a man sitting in the back alone...

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December 10, 2025

Review: ‘Five Nights at Freddy’s 2’ is a Confused, Un-Scary Sequel Drowning in its Own Silliness

Five Nights at Freddy’s 2, directed by Emma Tammi, is set after the events of Five Nights at Freddy’s (2023) as Mike (Josh Hutcherson), Abby ...

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December 5, 2025

Four Underrated Performances You Should See ASAP!

As an actor myself, the first thing that truly resonates with me in a film is a great performance. I love watching performances that are mult...

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December 4, 2025

2026 Golden Globes Nominations Predictions

The 83rd Golden Globe Nominations are just around the corner (December 8th), and the awards race has never felt more in flux. Over the next f...

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December 4, 2025

‘The Chronology of Water’ Review: Kristen Stewart’s Visceral and Haunting Directorial Debut Finally Arrives

Kristen Stewart’s directorial debut, an adaptation of Lidia Yuknavitch’s 2011 memoir, has been in the works for almost eight years. The Chron...

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December 3, 2025

‘Left-Handed Girl’ Review: A Tender Portrait of Generations of Taiwanese Women

Shih-Ching Tsou’s Left-Handed Girl is one of those films that feels like it has been living inside someone for years, collecting memories, se...

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December 1, 2025

Review: After a Year of Heavy-Hitting Dramas, ‘Eternity’ is a Breath of Fresh Air

2025 has been a year of intensity. With heavy-hitters like One Battle After Another, Hamnet, Sentimental Value, House of Dynamite, and The Lo...

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December 1, 2025

Anatomy of an Adaptation: The Changes in GDT’s ‘Frankenstein’

Guillermo del Toro’s long-prophesied adaptation of Frankenstein has finally been released. It serves as the latest in a nearly century-old li...

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December 1, 2025

Review: ‘Sentimental Value’ Deals Emotional Truths in Gentle Waves

Sentimental Value is a film you walk with—a slow, meditative stroll along the shore, turning over past mistakes and old ghosts. That’s precis...

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November 29, 2025

Review: ‘Zootopia 2’ Cuts Through Disney’s Recycled IP as a Sequel Worthy of Your Time

In an age when Disney only wants to retread existing IP with its notorious live-action remakes and onslaught of sequels, it was only a matter...

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November 28, 2025

‘Tangled’ Turns 15: Disney’s Rapunzel Outing Deserves to Glow With Their Other Princess Films

In this time of live-action remakes after live-action remakes that add nothing to the source material, I find it important to look back at th...

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November 22, 2025

Review: Satirical Drama and Messy Romance Bring Holiday Cheer in ‘A Very Jonas Christmas Movie’

Let it bro, let it bro, let it bro. If the title A Very Jonas Christmas Movie hadn’t sold me, the previous sentence punctuating the te...

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November 21, 2025

10 Spunky & Soulful Movies for Sagittarius Season

As the Sun slides down the end of the scorpion’s tail, leaving behind a season of scares, it slips into something a bit more light and comfor...

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November 21, 2025

Review: ‘Train Dreams’ Proves The Ordinary Can Be Beautiful In One Of The Year’s Best Films

Life has a funny way of slipping through our fingers. The mundanities of our everyday responsibilities pile upon us, inadvertently suffocatin...

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November 18, 2025

Review: Ducournau's ‘Alpha’ is a Body Horror that Shows the Importance of Empathy When It's Far Easier to Shut Shop

Alpha, directed by Julia Ducournau, follows a thirteen-year-old Alpha (Mélissa Boros) who, after her mum, Maman (Golshifteh Farahani), discov...

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