Growing up, I understood “hard sci-fi” as a genre with a double meaning
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Project Hail Mary (2026)
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The Color Purple (2023)
The Color Purple has been through so many layers of adaptation at this point that it’s practically a game of telephone.
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Remote Control (1989)
For whatever reason, the 1980s remain an endless well of bizarre and inventive thrillers, the kind that surprise you when you find them playing on cable at 1 AM or on a muted bar TV.
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Cabin in the Sky (1943)
Cabin in the Sky deserves to be remembered as more than a curiosity of representation, though that context inevitably shapes how you approach it.
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Phantom of the Opera (2004)
There is a paradox at the heart of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s empire that Joel Schumacher’s 2004 Phantom of the Opera makes impossible to ignore
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The Top 10 Movies of 2025
The year 2025 was not a particular shining beacon for cinema in my eyes
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Cats (2019)
There’s a case to be made that the true line of demarcation between the before-times and the after-times is not March 2020, when the world shut down as COVID spread and quarantine began, but a few months earlier, when Cats arrived in theaters.
Dan and Brian continue Musical Decades Month with a look at two musicals written by Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Dan and Brian continue Musical Decades Month and also honor Black History Month by looking at two films depicting the Black experience with Black casts
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Not Just a Goof (2024)
You’re not going to get an unbiased review from me on this one.