Eight months ago I recorded half-a-dozen episodes for the Pop Sequentialism Podcast on our YouTube Channel, but the files got corrupted and couldn’t be uploaded. In those vignettes I recommended picking up overlooked Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle keys, and I warned against investing in anything...
In 2001, writer/director Richard Kelly achieved cult status with Donnie Darko, an assured but quirky debut feature exploring deep, existential questions through a lens of 80s nostalgia–and presenting perhaps the greatest meditation on adolescent schizophrenia ever committed to film. Five years later, he followed-up with...
Before diving straight into my list of the best horror films of the current millennium (thus far), I think it will be helpful to frame the trends that preceded and indelibly influenced them, and in so doing give a shout out to films that most...
It’s always difficult to put together lists of the best horror films. Truth be told, while there are a lot of excellent horror movies, the same films tend to make everybody’s list year after year–so much so that writers will intentionally omit obvious classics in...
When Danni Shinya Luo was living in China as a child, she was always doodling in her text books and imitating drawings from her favorite Manga pages. After she came to the US, she enrolled in weekend art classes and eventually got a 4 year...
What makes a person decide to sell off their collection? Changes to their living or work situation, financial hardship, and incarceration would motivate anyone, but in a larger sense I think that most people tend to upgrade over time. They upgrade their valuables and they upgrade...
Superbowl commercials are always a big deal, and this year in particular the spot that got the most attention was Marvel Studios teaser trailer for their inaugural roster of original Disney+ shows that will be debuting later this year. The first scripted Disney+ production The...
While the box office was a bit light on opening weekend for the DCU's latest film, Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn, Margot Robbie's second outing as anti-hero Harley Quinn has maintained a Certified Fresh rating from critical aggregate site...
With Marvel and DC representing the most successful comic book publishers and comic book film franchises, there has been tremendous speculation about which of the second tier publishers will be able to compete in the type of Universe building that has generated billions of dollars...
Premiering at this month’s Sundance as part of the Documentary Premieres section is Happy Happy Joy Joy: The Ren & Stimpy Story, co-directed by Ron Cicero and Kimo Easterwood. The pair set out with the task of illuminating “the joy, beauty, and lasting impact of...
I first became aware of the band Rush when I was nine years old. The album Moving Pictures was released in February of 1981, and by March two songs from that album, Limelight and Tom Sawyer, were in heavy rotation on rock radio in Boston...
It was announced this week that the long awaited Matt Reeves directed and Robert Pattinson starring Batman movie now has a release date of June 2021 (since pushed back to March 4, 2022), which gives the Cloverfield director plenty of time to craft his own...
Great films frequently utilize music to establish their mood. The selection of a too-obvious track can ruin a well crafted performance and an otherwise technically perfectly composed scene can be made silly or ham-fisted. In post-Tarantino Hollywood, deep tracks are a sort of currency that...