I've mentioned my professional work a fair few times on this blog. If you've somehow missed those occasions, here's the gist. I work primarily in game shows, both as a writer and an on-set judge. Essentially, my job is to create content for the games - and depending on the project help form the game … Continue reading Beating the Game – The Luckiest Man in America
The last few weeks have been really rough. I buried my brother-in-law, had a hell of a time helping my sister through her grief, struggled to connect with my nephew now that he's obsessed with Geometry Dash, Minecraft, and any other app that can keep his gaze glued to a phone, and I've been out … Continue reading This Film Is Not Yet Watchable – April 2025
I must begin this review, as I have done on several occasions, with an apology. I saw Mickey 17 over a week ago, and was planning to review it this past Wednesday, after a well-earned brief respite following the Oscar Blitz, where I posted for 51 consecutive days. It was meant to be a short … Continue reading The Working Dead – Mickey 17
There's nothing wrong with an honest mistake. Human beings are inherently fallible creatures, and our entire lives are spent in one giant exercise of trial and error, hoping to achieve a level of balance that allows us to prosper and reach a state of contentment once we've adjusted enough to meet our individual goals properly. … Continue reading The Replacements – Captain America: Brave New World
Life is, if nothing else, a continuous learning experience. That old adage of picking up new information every day might be trite, but it's also extremely accurate. For example, I just found out today that I've been doing the title of this column wrong for all these years. I'm supposed to capitalize "Is" because despite … Continue reading This Film Is Not Yet Watchable – March 2025
Well, it's finally over. We've made it through the 97th Academy Awards in one piece, and when it's all said and done, I... well... I think it was fine? I don't remember anything being too egregiously bad, but very little stuck out as exemplary, either. Like the pandemic ceremonies, it honestly felt perfunctory, and as … Continue reading Oscar Blitz 2025 – Postmortem
One of the hardest things to pull off in film is a story about kids that feels authentic to the realities of being a kid. It's rare, but when it happens, it's some of the best stuff you'll ever see. Whether it's something sentimental like We Grown Now or over-the-top bonkers like Good Boys, when … Continue reading Girlhood – Jazzy
Now that the Oscars are over, it's time to get back fully to regular coverage of 2025 cinema. I've already posted a couple of belated reviews, and I've got a few more in the chamber to dole out over the next week or so. The first of these is Heart Eyes, which came out just … Continue reading Date Fright – Heart Eyes
At long last, the time has come. After weeks of analysis, scrambling to clear backlogs, and a healthy amount of insomnia, tonight is the night for the 97th Academy Awards. The stars have come out to shine, and they're all wearing ridiculous outfits so they can talk to vacuous morning show hosts posing as "journalists" … Continue reading Oscar Blitz 2025 – Live Diary
Well, the hard part's over. Over the last five weeks, I was able to dive as deeply as possible into each of the 23 categories for this year's Academy Awards. Incidentally, this will be the last year where there are only 23 of them, as next year we'll be inaugurating the Best Casting contest. I … Continue reading Oscar Blitz 2025 – Who Will Win?
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