On October 11th, 1975, the first episode of an upstart young sketch comedy show called Saturday Night hit the NBC airwaves. It originated because talk show god Johnny Carson wanted...
In 2019, Todd Phillips directed Joker, (very) loosely based on the DC Comics Batman villain. Joaquin Phoenix played Arthur Fleck, a mentally ill societal castoff who finds a new identity...
I grew up on a smorg of wildly different influences that informed my film education. Everything from mainstream movies, to the wild VHS horror and exploitation films of John Carpenter...
Like many horror and sci-fi nerds, I grew up with the Alien franchise. My Dad took me to Aliens in 1986, when I was about 11-years-old. At the start of...
In Alex Garland’s Civil War, the audience is parachuted into an unfolding situation in media res. But what back story do we really need? While it would have been cool...
NOTE: There are some very minor spoilers in here. Not big reveals, but plot points are discussed. The sleeper has awakened! After a strike-related postponement in 2023, this weekend finally...