I had a life once. Now, every day is the same. I wake up, roll over, and pick up my phone to find horror stories of police oppression, corporate greed, record unemployment, climbing death counts, and political apathy. They would be alarming if I hadn’t read them the day before. …

Another shitshow of a year is in the books, folks. War rages on in Ukraine, and for some idiotic reason the US keeps funding it, bringing us closer each day to the brink of Kubrickian farce. …

For the past five years, I’ve written this article cataloguing my thoughts on all the films I saw since the earth last rounded the sun. Despite the fucking exhausting nature of this endeavor, writing down my opinions on the year in film has always brought me joy. …

I started doing annual Nic Cage rankings in 2019 as an excuse to write a funny article about bad movies and over-the-top performances. That year was especially fun because Cage made five terrible movies that provided a lot of great material. While his 2021 filmography still dabbles in the absurd…

Film festivals are back!!! Until a few weeks ago, it had been almost two years since I’d been to one. They can be exhausting at times, but damn they’re fun. Doc Days and Austin Film Festival fell just four days apart this year. …

Man, this year sucked. Disease, police brutality, and poverty ravaged the globe while the lucky amongst us were cut off from society, safe from the virus but more vulnerable than ever to loneliness and despair. …

This horrifying year has finally come to a close, and for those of us that survived, it’s time to look back on the best movies of 2020… starring Nicolas Cage. That’s right, folks. I’m taking you on a journey upon which few have dared to embark and even fewer have…

The last movie I saw in theaters was a sparsely attended matinee screening of Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal on Sunday, March 15th at the Alamo Drafthouse Ritz. Perhaps this was not the wisest choice of film as it quickly became an omen of the dark times to come. …

As an Austin resident and film fan, I’ve made a habit of attending South by Southwest each March and watching as many movies as my schedule will allow. …