Captain America’s political ideas are baloney
The Avengers broke up because Captain America has the political sophistication of a 13-year-old boy in a Che Guevara t-shirt.
Signs is a much better movie than people remember.
M. Night Shyamalan’s 2002 film is not only a great, underappreciated thriller, but it helped inspire the modern horror renaissance.
Finding Fantastic Beasts
Engineered to set up a decade of movies with built-in brand loyalty, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them was an enormous hit that left little mark. Is it worth a second look?
Missing, and Moving Past, Roger Ebert
I love Roger Ebert and think about his reviews all the time, but he is very much a figure out of time.
Nostalgia has always informed the new, but never quite like this
We may be hitting the nostalgia apex with Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One, and it feels like something’s about to break.
Oscars 2018: The Aftermath
I revive a long-dormant tradition and tell you what SHOULD have happened at the Academy Awards.
The YA dystopia craze is now trapped in an actual YA dystopia.
The era of teenage dystopian sci-fi ended a few years ago, before anyone noticed.
The Rockin’ Rock Reckoning
Emo music is having a renaissance, and it’s making former emo dudes like me realize emo dudes weren’t always the good guys.
Back To the Future Part II isn’t trying to predict the future
We don’t connect our own futures with the gloomy future we predict for the world.
Don’t ever give me a time machine.
If time travel gets invented in the future, we’ll see evidence of it in the present.