“If over the years I had been given a dollar each time a small boat sailed into looming disaster by steering close under the flaring bow of… Read more “How to Avoid Huge Ships (Or I Never Met a Ship I Liked), A Book Report”

The 2018 Awards Season is upon us and The Favourite and Vice are two frontrunners in a strange, if not entirely uncompelling, year. Both films are cynical looks at the effects… Read more “On The Favourite and Vice”

Grunge was always a place and time, never a style of music. Pearl Jam began as all the rest of its contemporaries ended: in death. Death is… Read more “On the Last Grunge Band”

This is in no way meant to be a comprehensive look at television in 2018, a year overflowing with a seemingly endless amount of new shows coming… Read more “My Favorite Television Moments of 2018”

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald isn’t an aggressively bad movie by any means and, taken on its merits alone, it has a fairly unimpeachable case at not being… Read more “The Crimes of Overdoing It”

Edgar Wright is your film nerd friend’s favorite director, but you’re not fully on board. His films aren’t exactly inaccessible: you thought Scott Pilgrim was out there, but you… Read more “Baby Driver is Everything”

Will Arnett is one of our finer character actors and his lighthearted, blustery machismo is a welcome addition to any TV show or movie he pops up… Read more “Will Arnett is Going Through Some Stuff”