My buddies and I were having the most conked out movie night ever. Like we got our popcorn, tea, all the good shit for a movie night on the (admittedly tiny) dorm lounge telle. 

And then comes that person. Everyone's got one. That one person who no one likes for no apparent reason who annoys the shit out of everyone but can't really be hated on because they didn't do anything wrong. Just a walking pile of mild transgressions that…

Man as shape. Shape as symbol. Symbol as mythos. Son of the White Mare is a creation myth for the modern age.

An unholy mare-iage of humanity, nature, industrialization, and fiction, White Mare invents an entire visual language to create an invigorating folklore experience. Drawing kinship from what's undoubtably the cave paintings that supplemented the oral traditions of our forefathers, its language offers a perfect reminder that film is at its heart a visual medium. Words are spoken through images.…

My cousin Jeff is working on Joker and apparently they filmed it without telling anyone so and sent me a rough cut to review. Unfortunately the film industry will detain my whistleblower cousin, and thus you should like this review to validate the fruits of his labor.

Joker, a wholly original superhero film who no discernible influences (especially not from Scorsese), feels distinctively Phillipians. The most accurate depiction of a sprawling, urban purgatory where everyone listens to Phoebe Bridgers and Taylor…

I truly lived laughed loved after the cinematic masterpiece tour-de-force auteur theory 190% Rotten Tomatoes Orwellian construct that is Morbius, a film so rooted in its influences that it's impossible not to see how affectionate it is for the genre.

One may wonder if Morbius is a film that should even exist in the first place beyond its intentions as another franchise vehicle for a relatively obscure Marvel villain. However, as Jared Leto girlbosses towards the screen in the film's opening…