Are racing movies also sports movies? I think so. Even when the focus is someone piloting a car, motorcycle, bicycle, scooter, hydrofoil, or hovercraft, those kinds of films share a great deal with the sports genre. So much so that they feel like a subgenre. At the end of the day, they share multiple tropes, […]

Very, very, very few people make it through their teen years unscathed. Some people don’t make it through at all. It’s bad enough being a teenager, the acne eruptions, the hormonal explosions, and all the attendant drama that comes with the age. Suppose there’s more than that? Suppose there’s an additional weight you need to […]

Tim Burton is not a filmmaker. You can be forgiven for the confusion that previous sentence created, but let me explain. Tim Burton isn’t someone interested in making movies in the traditional sense. Instead, he’s an artist. He’s more focused on eliciting an emotional response as opposed to telling a story, and he uses the […]

Is it morally wrong to enjoy true crime? The question itself is tricky because the true crime genre itself has changed over the years. Up until the 2000s, I think, the genre was more niche, to use the most polite phrasing possible. If you liked books about gangsters, documentaries about serial murder and the like, […]

Rally Caps drops on Prime and Disney+ September 10 The appeal of sports is largely lost on me. Growing up, I was an indoor kid. While my father hoped for a strapping young man who would toss around the ol’ pigskin with him, what he got was a committed uber geek. When he lustily cheered […]

How would your life be different? Maybe there was a job you took, and shouldn’t have, or didn’t get and wanted. Maybe there was someone, the one who got away, or the one you got but really didn’t want. Maybe you really took that trip to Europe, you wrote that novel, you listened to your […]

We’re now seven installments into the Alien franchise. Of those seven, I think they break up into two extremely loose categories. The first category primarily has a focus on sci-fi horror, which I like to call “WE’RE GONNA DIE!” movies. For example: Alien is “We’re space truckers and WE’RE GONNA DIE!” Aliens is “We’re space […]

I like it when good people succeed. By all accounts, Josh Hartnett is a good guy. As far as I know, he’s never beaten up anyone. He’s never driven drunk. He’s never freebased cocaine naked in the middle of the Golden Gate Bridge, and if he has, then I tip my hat to his crisis […]

A little poking around on the website Statista revealed some interesting information to me. In 2022, law enforcement across the United States did kind of a good job clearing certain kinds of crimes. 52.3 percent of homicides were solved, which is not bad!* Should those rates be higher? Sure, but consider that the United States […]

I don’t know how to feel about Marvel Studios these days. It’s not due to superhero fatigue, a concept that’s been proven wrong for years. I’m more than okay with the snide nihilism of The Boys, the gleeful anarchy of Harley Quinn, the meatheaded sincerity of Peacemaker, and more. When online commenters bash “capeshit,” I […]