A couple weeks ago, I asked third year students at the school I work at (students about 15 years old) to write short stories. Yesterday I ...

Shakespeare's The Tempest becomes a luxurious daydream of ruin in Derek Jarman's 1979 film adaptation . The dark halls of an 18th...

On a barge in France, crowded with cats, a marriage is in jeopardy. 1934's L'Atalante may be the most adorable movie ever made. ...

Last night I watched the 25th Anniversary Royal Albert Hall production of The Phantom of the Opera , recorded in 2011. I watched part of i...

Normally I like episodes of The Bad Batch written by Matt Michnovetz. But while elements of Wednesday's episode, "Tribe", f...

You never can tell when a secret undersea empire will show itself. Africa's most powerful secret utopia contends with such a problem i...

Happy Groundhog Day, everyone. Yesterday, James Gunn announced many details about the DC cinematic universe under his stewardship. I ho...

Let's return, once again, to that fabled convenience store. 2022's Clerks III is nowhere near as good as the original, though it...

Beyond dark, rocky shores, his face awash in the glow of an active volcano, there dwells Vincent Price in 1965's City Under the Sea (...

A few days ago I watched "Battle Lines", a first season episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine . It's not a great episode and...

The Criterion Channel has a collection of 1960s Alfred Hitchcock movies this month so I decided to revisit 1964's Marnie . I'd las...

I'd just gotten a few episodes into season four--the 2019 season--of Rick and Morty when the news broke about co-creator Justin Roila...

A deadly situation in the hostile winter of Wyoming is ambushed by another deadly situation in 1959's Day of the Outlaw . It's an ...

Last night's Bad Batch started from a premise with a lot of potential but it never quite got off the ground. Written by Christopher Y...

To a child, the world may seem like a playground, a charming perspective adults seem determined to beat out of them. But not all adults, a...

A man saves a woman from some creep on a boat in the English Channel. Then he tries to riffle through her purse only for her to throw it o...