I realize everyone's got their minds on other things right now, but it is absolutely wild to me that there is a whole-ass new Star Trek (TV) movie starring academy award winner Michelle Yeoh dropping this week, and I haven't heard a single peep of anticipation or excitement from any corner of the Star Trek fandom or, indeed, anyone outside it.

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Whenever people criticize Mirror Georgiou you get the response that, well, it was cool to…

There was just recently that show Secret Level, which in spite of an all-star cast and some pretty animation was a total failure, at least when it came to making something worthwhile to outsiders. I hadn't played the majority of the games adapted for that anthology, and the whole time I was sitting there going "...I don't know, nor do I care, what the hell's going on."

Which is basically also the case here, but somehow I found the whole…

If there’s a horror movie this is likely gonna get compared to a lot, it’s probably In a Violent Nature, the slasher movie where the whole gimmick was we were locked with the killer’s perspective, hovering behind him as he methodically stalked about and set up for his kills. The movie I kept thinking of, though, was Cameraperson, the documentary where Kirsten Johnson sifted through hours of her own B-roll, basically to see if she could construct a coherent characterization…

Fucking fascinating. One of the weirdest wrinkles to Lynch's persona is how often he's perceived as a total outsider artist, and yet all over his career is evidence that he was willing to play ball, just so long as it didn't compromise his broader artistic vision (like, for instance, forcing him to reveal who killed Laura Palmer). This, along with Return of the Jedi, is maybe the most tantalizing "what if?" of his entire filmography, and it still boggles my…

Even in a movie like this which didn't totally work for me, I still admire the sheer bluntness of Almodóvar’s melodrama. A lot's been made of the fact that this is his first English-language feature, and granted I haven't seen that much of his filmography (just some of the more famous ones, I've been meaning to take a bigger dive for a while) but I kinda gather he's kinda always like this even if he's working in his native language.…

There's a story about the original Rosemary's Baby that Ray Bradbury really hated the ending, and in his review actually wrote a bit of fanfic to rectify it - basically his feelings were that Rosemary was holding a knife, and Rosemary should've used the knife. He wanted her to have a glimmer of agency in the wake of what she was seeing.

Not to disrespect the guy who invented the butterfly effect, but that's one of the most hysterically stupid…

I hold it to be true that kids and family movies are actually much harder to pull off than "regular" movies, and I legit resent the notion that we should be settling for shit like the Ugly Dolls movie or Boss Baby or whatever. We're told again and again that parents just want a bunch of loud and dumb flashing lights to park their kids in front of so they can have 90 minutes of peace, but this always strikes…