Have you ever thought prosciutto was made from beef? Or pondered the ethics of dating your longtime therapist? Or choreographed and performed a highly intricate …
Nobody Wants This (2025) Review
December 2025
Frankenstein (2025): All the Right Dismembered Pieces, All the Wrong Moves
The creator laments the failings of his creation when the sum of its parts falls short of the promises made by its individual constituents—a fate …
Should Films Offer Solutions?: Eddington and its Tireless Warnings
Spoiler Warning: Read At Your Own Discretion Eddington (Ari Aster, 2025), potentially one of the most polarizing films of the year, offers a bleak, microscopic …
The Lost Grammar of Emotion in Film: Why Modern Audiences Take Melodramas Less Seriously
Earlier this year, I caught a re-release of Luchino Visconti’s family saga, Rocco and His Brothers (1960) at BFI Southbank. While I thoroughly enjoyed the …
The Christmas Movie: Discussion by a Lover of Summer
Introduction This brief essay exploring the idea, rough genre or attribute of the “Christmas movie” began with an incredibly committed debate between me, two other …
Caught Stealing (2025)
Hank (Austin Butler) is an avid baseball fan, who splits his days between a job at the local bar in New York, and Yvonne (Zoë …