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Retrospective Movie Review Nightmare Alley (1947): A Grim & Unique Noir Gem Something dark, twisted, and great to close out #Noirvember? This is your ticket.
Movie Review The Last Duel (2021): A Movie Review Ridley Scott’s medieval #MeToo drama pointedly conveys a bleak worldview, but feels unbalanced and disjointed.
Members only Horror ‘Why won't he die?!’: Post-Halloween Musings on Michael Myers as Evil Personified The first Halloween movies made Michael Myers a simple, dreadfully effective metaphor for the nature of evil in the real world.
Movie Review Halloween Kills (2021): A Movie Review David Gordon Green's second entry in the new trilogy is a 105-minute Michael Myers kill scenes reel, and not much more.
Movie Review The French Dispatch (2021): A Movie Review Wes Anderson’s new movie, an anthology of three stories, goes for broke and makes things work (with narrative excesses).
Movie Review Dune (2021) Villeneuve's long-awaited science fiction extravaganza might be flawed, but it does not disappoint. A spoiler-free review.
Retrospective Movie Review Featured The Genius of An American Werewolf in London (1981) Why John Landis's wolfman classic is one of the greatest films ever made.
Members only Psychos Sacrifices to the Sky Chief An exploration of the value of sacrifices, and how the concept can lead our monkey brains askew.
Movie Review Thief (1981) Helped by a great Caan performance, Mann gets enough things right early in his career to make a heist movie that feels exceptional.
Members only Mindfulness Attitude Generation On the enabling effects of attitude, and our ability to author it.