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Jonathan Glazer’s Films Ranked Seven Ways

English director Jonathan Glazer has directed four films in the past 25 years, and they present an intriguing cross-section of many of the ways films can be great.

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Review

La Roue (The Wheel) (1923)

Silent cinema is full of legendary figures, but none is quite so mythic as Abel Gance.

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Every Matthew Vaughn Movie Ranked

Earlier this year I did a binge of Matthew Vaughn’s movies, and my main takeaway is that I am not a Matthew Vaughn fan.

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Every Alexander Payne Film Ranked

The cinematic comedy-drama is in a state of peril.

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My daughter and I wrote a book!

Hey film friends, I’m excited to share that my six-year-old daughter Eleanor and I wrote a kids fantasy chapter book together.

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Essay List/Ranking

The B.A.D.S. by The Goods, 2023

Ladies and germs! We gather today to celebrate that which was most important in cinema in 2023

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List/Ranking Essay

Five 2023 Gems the Oscars Ignored

The AMPAS finally announced the Oscar nominations

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Review

TV Series Reviews: Gangs of London

In the spring of 2020, in the early days of the COVID pandemic and following the wet thud that was the ending of Game of Thrones, audiences were craving something to fill that niche in the landscape of Peak TV.

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Review

Director: Gareth Evans

In the last twenty years, there has perhaps been no one filmmaker more influential on the course of action cinema than Gareth Evans.

Series: Friday the 13th

The Friday the 13th series serves as a map of the rise and fall of slashers as a subgenre of film, peaking early with teen popcorn fun before tailing off into silly oblivion, stupid lore, and abandoned rebirths.