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List/Ranking

The Top 10 Movies of 2025

The year 2025 was not a particular shining beacon for cinema in my eyes

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List/Ranking

The B.A.D.S. by The Goods, 2025

Has it really been a whole year?

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Review

Too Old to Die Young (2019)

“The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?”

–W.B. Yeats, “The Second Coming,” 1919

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TV Review

Community – Pilot (S01E01)

I was a senior in college and a devotee of NBC’s Thursday night programming in September 2009 when Community premiered.

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Site Update

My daughter and I wrote another book!

Hey film friends!

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Review

Psycho (1960)

In his famous essay “An Introduction to the American Horror Film,” critic Robin Wood defined the genre

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Review

The Thief of Bagdad (1924)

It takes a special breed of actor for the name alone to be a brand and a promise to the viewer, but Douglas Fairbanks achieved that during his career.

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Site Update

Announcing a project: The New Cinephile

Hey friends — I’d like to share something I’ve been working on.

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Site Update

2024 Annual Recap

Sorry this is so late. Pictured: The most Dan-core movie of 2024, Sweethearts.

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List/Ranking

IndieWire’s 100 Best Movies of the 2020s (So Far) – Overrated, Underrated, Properly Rated

Yesterday, IndieWire released a list ranking the 100 best films of the decade so far.