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The DOCTOR WHO Rewatch Project - Season 7 and Final Smith Specials
Note: In order to finish the Rewatch Project on time for the new Davies specials, along with having enough time to write the other columns I want to do this month, I’m not going to do a column for every season anymore, but instead two more columns on the Capaldi and Whittaker eras respectively. Do...
The DOCTOR WHO Rewatch Project - Season 6
We now hit the era of Doctor Who where my memory starts to get a little fuzzier. Yes, even though we are still in the biggest days of the fervent fandom, there’s just a ton of triple backflips with the narratives, which makes it a bit harder to remember what gets revealed when and how. And perhaps...
The Joyful RYE LANE and The Void of The Rom Com
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I love Rom Coms.I know if I use that term your mind might drift to the more famous entries of 80’s and 90’s heyday. Films like When Harry Met Sally, Pretty Woman, or Clueless. Films that likely reinforce a kind of singular notion of what the genre i...
The Highs of The “Not Horror” Horror Movies
I spend every October feeling like I’m getting in the way.That may sound odd, but it’s just that I have a lot of friends who are both massive Halloween fans and even more massive horror fans. And I’m not just talking about your average aficionados, but folks who have a seeming encyclopedic kno...
The Eulogic Ends of KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON
Warning: Spoilers for the film and its ending therein.* * *Killers of the Flower Moon feels like a last gasp for a certain kind of movie.For one, it comes from a lauded member of a past generation of filmmakers who, in no uncertain terms, truly gives a shit. I realize that could sound dismissive of ...
HALLOWEEN TWITCH MARATHON - FRI 10/20!
Hey all!Sorry I'm notifying mid-week when normally I like to do Monday, but schedule's been nuts and was hard to figure out the day I could pull this off! But it's absolutely time for the HALLOWEEN HORROR MOVIE TWITCH MARATHON!!! YAY!!!!!The marathon will start this Friday 10/20 at 1050a...
The DOCTOR WHO Rewatch Project - Season 5
And just like that, we enter the Moffat Era.As with any grand sea change, it’s one of the most argued about aspects within the entire fandom. They’re always asking which showrunner do you like better? Which doctor? Which companion? Etc. Etc. And as much argumentation as there has been around the...
The Unfortunate & Necessary Art of Bouncing Off Television
Note: this is a three part column. The first two parts are a general topic essay on the function of TV and its history. Then the final third becomes a mini “ani-me” column for my initial impression of a few shows including Revolutionary Girl: Utena and ONE PIECE (both anime and live action). If ...
Bonus Mini Stream Starting Now!
I forgot to post and it's starting :)https://www.twitch.tv/filmcrithulk<3HULK
The DOCTOR WHO Rewatch Project - Season Four & Final Specials
I forgot how much spikier his hair was this season???Anyway! It seems season four is the general response for best Tennant season (and I already made my case for the consistency of season three), but I get it! There are just certain emotional highs you get in this one, especially by the time you get...
Bonus Mini-Stream, Friday 10/6!
Sometimes you make a dumb ironic joke and it suddenly it spirals into this idea you can't get out of your head and thus, you need to actualize it into existence.The following is happening purely because Landon and I were joking and I randomly used the unfortunate phrase "CUCKTOBERFEST" (...
The DOCTOR WHO Rewatch Project - Season Three
Note: don’t worry, it’s not all gonna be Doctor Who these next weeks - I’ve got a lot of other big essays and some October Horror stuff coming :)* *Ahhhh, my favorite Davies season.I’m not sure why that’s so controversial? It feels like it shakes off a lot of the nostalgia instincts of the...
re: strike - thank you!
The WGA is over and SAG-AFTRA strikes seems to be ending.And as I run around like a chicken with my head cut off right now, i just wanted to say a super huge thank you. I remember the strike out here last time and the wonky public sentiment that went along with it - but the support from people this ...
Twitch Stream! Today! 1020pst! Sept. Singalong!
It's September Singalong time! That's right! It's musicals and music-themed movies that are coming right for ya. Which is great because I *LOVE* the following movies.And because of the aforementioned schedules, this time we're doing a relaxing, cozy SUNDAY stream, TODAY! Sunday 9/24 ...
The DOCTOR WHO Rewatch Project - Season Two
Hot take alert: I think this is the “worst” of the Davies seasons.And it’s still pretty good! Especially with its powerful, well-earned ending (I mean wow wow wow). But it just hits some rocky spots along the way. But we’ll get into all that granular stuff in the episodic section (especially...
“Witches Get Stitches” MADOKA MAGICA & The Arc of Dark
Our relationship to art changes over the course of our lives.This is inevitable. We grow. We change. Our interests shift. We gain more understanding of both the world around us and ourselves. And since movies reflect ideas and feelings, we of course gravitate to the art that reflects what we’re fe...
Twitch Stream! - SUNDAY 9/24! SEPT. SINGALONG!
Hey all, sorry for the later twitch stream than planned this month, it's just been a devil of a time getting schedules lined up this streamable day. But it's September again, so you know what that means!!!!!It's September Singalong time! That's right! It's musicals and music-them...
The DOCTOR WHO Rewatch Project - Season One
I haven’t written about it much, but I’d say Doctor Who is…Probably one of my favorite things of the new millennium? I mean, it’s certainly my favorite thing from what you could call popular “I.P” But unlike a lot of the nerdy things I grew up with, this one wasn’t even something inher...
MARRYING THE JOKE: The Crucial Art Of Narrative Comedy
No matter how much we may discuss the finer details of comedy, we all know there’s only one real metric involved…Did you laugh or not?As a consumer or critic, it’s important to recognize that it really is that simple. You watch comedy primarily to laugh, which is a weird thing if you think abo...
The REAL Reason Why Film History Matters
The following essay may seem like it’s about many things, from current trends, to 90s programming, to the 2000’s box office swells, and the modern streaming age, but really, it’s about how it all comes together in the same harmful, cyclical dynamic.1. TIMING, ANIME, AND EMERGENCEThere’s this...
Wait, Should I Watch Live Action ONE PIECE?
Quick updates!1. Got a fun essay I'm almost done with on Film History coming up.2. I love that after all that annoying as hell work I did making the archive patreon JUST NOW comes up with a "collections" system that will be so much more helpful in organizing hahahaha. Anyway I'll get...
The Complete PATREON Essay Archive
So I’m completely indebted to this amazing service, but the one thing that is hardest for you when navigating Patreon is managing the UI / search functions on this site (plus, they show up in google results really weird). So I thought it was high-time to re-do a whole big organized archive for eas...
Book Club Discussion: TOMORROW AND TOMORROW AND TOMORROW
One of the big lessons of criticism is that you can’t plan anything.I thought I had learned this pretty well by now. There have been so many times where I went to see a film or an event and assumed that I would have something to talk about. Then you get in there and it’s like “… huh.” Mean...
Dumb Social Media Updates!
I know everyone is bouncing around the new options like it's the wild west so I've kind of just been biding my time, but since Silicon Valley is determined to keep building harassment machines, I finally made the move over to Blu Sky and I'm right here: https://bsky.app/profile/filmcrith...
The Timeless Television of SAILOR MOON (Season 1)
I cannot get over how much I love this show.But it’s one of those things that happens sometimes with a beloved property that has been around for years. Heck, I first heard about the shows back in the mid 90s when a girl in my biology class was talking about how it's her favorite thing ever (an...
Twitch Stream Rescheduled for SATURDAY 11am!
Hey all,So sorry about last week (CRJ was awesome btw), but we've rescheduled the stream for THIS Saturday Aug 19th starting at 11am Pacific time! Also thank you for noticing that I had the wrong timings last week, the new schedule is corrected!Again, this is one of those streams where I despera...
A Quick Movie Diary: On SHAMPOO, LA HAINE, and THE FIRST SLAM DUNK
I see a lot of movies I don’t end up writing about.It’s mostly just a natural result of how I go about writing. Because I don’t do normal reviews. Nor do I like getting into adjective-heavy prose where I describe a film’s qualities. Instead, I like latching onto something that feels like a b...
Sorry! Twitch Stream Pushed to Next Week!
I apologize for switch, but I had a family emergency (in that I suddenly got a free ticket to see my glorious pop mother Carly Rae Jepsen in concert tomorrow... I'm actually older than her but such things are trivial)
New TWITCH STREAM - Friday Aug 11!
Hey all,Time to keep the twitch stream rolling with our August entry! This is one of those streams where I desperately wanted to show ONE movie (that would be Peyton Reed's BRING IT ON) and the entire theme sort of built out from there. So without further ado I present to you "SUPPORT THE GI...
TMNT: MUTANT MAYHEM and The Earnest Teenage Dream
I was on the walking corpse of a website that is Twitt- I mean “X” and I happened to mention how much I just adored the new film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem. And wouldn’t you know it, but I got a mean response from some random person! GASP!!!! I kid of course, but what was so f...
