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Remembering Patrick Stewart

Are Movie Theaters Going to Be OK?

Boorman and the Devil and the Beautiful Disaster of Exorcist II: The Heretic

Digger: A Requiem for the World We Find Ourselves In

Should We Stop Anthropomorphizing AI? What 2001, Colossus and The Outer Limits Can Teach Us

Coyote vs. Acme: Absurdity, Empathy, and Why We Keep Going

Steven Spielberg Ranked: Our Number Ones, and What Greatness Means

Steven Spielberg Ranked: Late Epiphanies and the Road to No. 1

Blue Heron: Grief, Family, and the Miracle of Being Seen

The Odyssey: War, Homecoming, and Our Responsibility to Act

Steven Spielberg Ranked: Sam Neill, Near Misses, and the Top Tier

The Mandalorian and Grogu: Does Star Wars Still Have Moral Weight?

Steven Spielberg Ranked: War Horse, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and the Movies That Divide Us

Disclosure Day: Spielberg, Wonder, and the Courage to Listen

Steven Spielberg Ranked: Raiders, Duel, and the Madness of Ranking Art

Steven Spielberg Ranked: The Absurdity of Applying Metrics to Art

Backrooms: AI Anxiety and the Death of the Analog World

Natchez: Southern Charm, American Myth, and the Need to See Clearly

Field of Dreams: Fathers, Sons, Regret, and the Possibility of Repair

Project Hail Mary: When Big-Hearted Sci-Fi Leaves Us Cold

Oscars 2026: The Movies, the Crafts, and the Stories We Choose

Song Sung Blue: The Crowd-Pleaser That Missed Its Crowd

Marty Supreme and Eephus: Exhilarating, Empty—or Both?

The Best Films of 2025: The Movies That Mattered

Avatar: Fire and Ash: Does Avatar Need the Big Screen to Work?

Rob Reiner, Train Dreams, and Sorry, Baby: Kindness, Grief, and How Movies Can Hold Pain

Frankenstein: Why Tell This Story Again?

Bugonia: The Genre You Shouldn't Know Before You See It

A House of Dynamite: Is Dread Enough?

Tron: Ares, Diane Keaton, and the Radical Act of Being Yourself

One Battle After Another: A Great Film That's Painful and Funny at Exactly the Same Time

Weapons: A Horror Film for Our Age / Remembering Terence Stamp

Superman: Kindness as Radical Power

28 Years Later: Horror, Compassion, and Caring About Strangers

The Phoenician Scheme: Wes Anderson, Harris Yulin, and Learning to Love the Artificial

Mountainhead and Friendship: Can Men Really Be Friends?

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning: Why This Impossible Movie Works

Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources: Crime, Hope, and Atonement

Sinners: What Ryan Coogler's Film Means for the Future of Movies

Black Bag: Trust, Marriage, and Politics in a Dangerous Moment

Gene Hackman, the Oscars, and the Responsibilities We Can't Duck

Oscars 2025, Part Two: Nickel Boys, Wicked, The Substance and More

Oscars 2025, Part One: Anora, The Brutalist, Conclave, Dune and More

The Brutalist: Beauty, Ambition, and the Cost of Building Something Real

David Lynch Remembered: The Dream Never Ends

The Best Films of 2024: The Movies That Mattered

A Complete Unknown: Bob Dylan, Identity, and the Mystery of Other People

Wicked: Transcendence, Ugliness, and the Tension of Opposites

What to Watch After an Election: Movies for Purpose, Connection, and Joy

Conclave: Power, Compassion, and the Possibility of Change / Remembering Teri Garr

Joker: Folie à Deux: Brokenness, Meaning, and the Movie Everyone Was Busy Scoring

Megalopolis One Point Five

Kris Kristofferson and John Amos - Still With Us

Megalopolis - Part 1

Reagan: Can a Bad Movie Become Great Art?

James Earl Jones - Still With Us

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice: Can Tim Burton Still Surprise Us?

Trap: Hitchcock, Shyamalan, and the Fractured Male Psyche

Deadpool & Wolverine

The Bikeriders and Inside Out 2 Reviewed and an Appreciation of Donald Sutherland

Hit Man: Desire, Identity, and the Lies We Tell Ourselves

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

Roger Corman - Mourning a Giant

Challengers

Civil War

Perfect Days, Louis Gossett Jr. and M. Emmet Walsh

Dune: Part Two: Power, Trauma, and the Myth of Redemptive Violence

[Teaser] Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny - Bonus Episode

Every Academy Awards Best Picture Nominee of 2024 - Part 2

Every Academy Awards Best Picture Nominee of 2024 - Part 1