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Switching things up a bit this week by reversing the usual order. You’re in Bizarro Screen Time now, folks!

Assigned Viewing: Barry (HBO Max, or HBO, or Max, or whatever it’s called now)

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(Sony Pictures)

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is, without a doubt, a visual masterpiece, an occasionally jarring but altogether awe-inspiring collision of animation styles and optical...

I don't think this is a very good movie but I am kind of fascinated by Momoa and what he's doing in it? Like, he's playing the villain as a sort of gay Joker? Kinda like Cesar Romero by way of Rip Taylor?...

The anti-AIR. Structured kind of like a lambda, in the sense that it is basically two acts: rise and fall. Pleasingly devoid of extraneous family drama, etc. I'm not sure if it's quite great—one of...

the audience gets what it asked for

Writing in Paste, Jacob Oller argues that the venture capital-style pursuit of billions has ruined movies, specifically in the way studios have tried to...

Air is an interesting movie on several levels, a couple of them only tangentially related to the film itself.

The film itself is perfectly fine, perhaps even very fun. Air is oddly framed in the way...

Before we get started, wanted to share a cool little thing I learned literally yesterday. Typically at a movie theater—or, at least, the movie theaters I’ve been to—the handicapped seats are just...

Hey everybody, just a reminder that Peter, Alyssa, and I will be at the Crystal City Alamo Drafthouse on Tuesday, May 16 for the 7:30 PM showing of WarGames. We’ll be taping an episode of Across the...

Guy Ritchie's versatility over the last four years—banging out a traditional Ritchie-esque Brit-gangster film (THE GENTLEMEN), a brutal 70s-style crime thriller (WRATH OF MAN), a Bond-adjacent spy-comedy...

Perhaps it’s because of the pandemic disrupting movie cycles, or maybe it’s a function of the various dramas surrounding studios STX and MGM, or possibly audiences are just stuck on thinking of him...

I mostly enjoyed this movie (Cage is great, some funny asides) but I do think this whole genre of high-concept action-comedy where the action is stitched together in post has been rendered kinda obsolete...

Just a quick reminder to pick up tickets for Across the Movie Aisle live at the Alamo Drafthouse in Crystal City on Tuesday, May 16, where we’re presenting the Matthew Broderick classic WarGames. There...

This week I’m rejoined by David Herrin of The Quorum—a must-visit site for any amateur or professional box office nerd—to talk about a new study The Quorum put together in partnership...

This is neither here nor there, but in the new Evil Dead movie (which I enjoyed!), one of the characters is pregnant and a Deadite says she's going to get two souls when she eats the pregnant lady,...

The sequence in the cottage (“He sees his daddy, he wants to run to him. But he’s only six years old. And he can’t do it. And the other man is so fast.”)  is an absolute nightmare gut punch...

I almost never rewatch MCU movies, but the Spider-Man entries are just incredibly appealing, really well done, perfect tonal mix, the relationship between Tony and Peter is the only relationship with...

Action-comedy executed at a very high level, a genuine pleasure to watch with an audience. Aware of the goofiness of the source material but not ironically detached from it. Better than it has any right...

Before we get to the meat of today’s newsletter, just want to say that if you’ve seen John Wick: Chapter 4—and a lot of you have, judging by the box office!—I hope you give this week’s...

Let’s just lay this out at the top: Tetris is a fun movie. Equal parts heist film, corporate espionage picture, and underdog story, all wrapped up in a tale of geopolitical intrigue centered on the most...

On this week’s episode, Sonny Bunch (The Bulwark) and Alyssa Rosenberg (The Washington Post) ask if the well-oiled machine that is Marvel studios is about to see the wheels come flying off. (Peter is...