“The average piece of junk is probably more meaningful than our criticism designating it so.” — Anton Ego, a fictional character “The film critic no longer considers that his function is the formation and reformation of public taste.” — Pauline Kael, “Movies, the Desperate Art” For a long time I…

On Billie Eilish, Ashnikko, and Self-Branding There is no doubt in my mind, our society is becoming infinitely more self-aware. As Gen-Z comes of age, a lot of people who spend a lot of time on the Internet know that they are marketing themselves and are being marketed to, whether…

Or, what happens when normal people get to make movies. So today I spent about six hours watching two documentaries that I found very interesting: The Crime of the Century and Vaccines: A Measured Response. One is a four-hour, AAA production released in two parts to HBO and produced by…

Unless you’ve been living under a rock since mid-January you’ve probably been watching the show that everyone has been talking about. Thanks to quarantine Twitter has become a 24/7 source of water-cooler chat about “last night’s episode” as eager fans wait until odd hours of the night for the latest…

There’s a little movie out on Netflix right now. If you’re on Twitter, you might have heard of it. It’s called Malcolm & Marie and it’s certainly turning some heads. Writer-Director Sam Levinson has already been a figure of a lot of debates in my circles thanks to his previous…

Or, “Why most of those characters would not be in this image.” Donald Trump is a vile, insane man who has empowered awful people to try and steal the government for him. A lot of people (mostly white people) love to compare him to any fictional fascist with a pulse…

Yes, it is. I was surprised to hear that myself considering how many manga authors get to the end excited to exit the corporate machine. But no, the main man Masashi Kishimoto is still writing stories in his anachronistic ninja world. I only know this because last night a choice…