Jake Fittipaldi

August 12, 2026

Review: ‘House of the Dragon’ Season 3 Marks a Thrilling Return To Form for Westeros

*This review contains spoilers for Season 3 of House of the Dragon* House of the Dragon had something to prove when it returned for it...

Lists

July 3, 2026

250 Years of the United States Through Film

What films represent us most? Those that recreate history? Reimagine history? Biopics of American icons or stories made by Hollywood legends?...

Bobbi Miller

July 3, 2026

Pride Mini-Series: Leviticus & Gender-Based Media

To conclude our Pride Series for 2026, we start off with a speed review of LEVITICUS, by Adrian Chiarella, an Australian horror-r...

Claire May Lewis

June 12, 2026

Pride Mini-Series: Hedda & "Queer Bending" in Modern Storytelling

Happy Pride! We are back with year two of our Pride Mini-series, celebrating Queer artists in Film and Media. After tracking the ...

Jake Fittipaldi

May 29, 2026

Independent Film Organization cinéSPEAK Brings Community to Philadelphia Through Free “Under The Stars” Festival

In a city where arts spaces continue to disappear, and funding remains extremely limited, filmmakers and programmers have increasingly relied...

Jake Fittipaldi

April 23, 2026

Review: ‘Hokum’ Knows the Horror Genre’s Tricks, Even If It Can’t Escape Them

“Hokum” is a word that implies nonsense. Absurdity dressed up as something meaningful, often with the intention of pulling easy emotional rea...

Jake Fittipaldi

April 3, 2026

Read Receipts: Project Hail Mary

Every month, we read a book that has been adapted for the screen… then we share our receipts. What worked? What didn’t? Did we en...

Jake Fittipaldi

February 25, 2026

Review: ‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ Near-Perfect Debut Season Revives Westeros by Celebrating Goodness

Despite record-breaking viewership and HBO’s continued investment in Westeros, the cultural temperature around “A Song of Ice and Fire” on sc...

Jake Fittipaldi

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...

Jake Fittipaldi

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...

Bryan Sudfield

October 18, 2025

34th Annual Philadelphia Film Festival Curtain Raiser

Now in its thirty-fourth year, the Philadelphia Film Festival continues to stand as one of the city’s most anticipated cultural events. Prese...

Jake Fittipaldi

October 8, 2025

Review: In ‘Roofman,’ Everyone Is Just Trying to Make Sense of It All

I first saw Roofman at TIFF 2025, deep into a week when most of us were running on caffeine and pure cinephilia. By that point, every film fe...

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