For those we’ll never meet.

Even if the series has earned the right to relish in the past a bit, the long-winded exposition drops and outright weird character decisions (mainly Grace + Gabriel) make the first hour undoubtedly frustrating. 

Yet, I’ve happily watched this movie 3 times now, twice within 12 hours, and I’m finding different ways to appreciate the first hour (and new ways to find it frustrating). Fortunately once we get to the sub, the movie operates at…

The movie from Cannes I’ve been thinking about the most. Mostly because of how radically I went from, this is not very good to this might best movie I’ve seen this year?

It’s kind of like watching the 2014-2015 Knicks play and then at halftime prime Ewing and Starks come off the bench to play. Spike is constructing scenes and images that are so powerful, so exciting, it felt like I had seen Starks dunk on the Bulls for the…

First video game adaptation to premiere at Cannes? Pour one out for Uwe Boll. 

The brilliance of the indie game that went viral in early-2024 was its simplicity— identify the anomaly and then walk in the other direction. Innately tense, horror existing in the banality of our routine commute. As you can guess, it’s why the game is also enjoyable. Rounding the corner, holding your breath, did I find the anomaly?

Yet the game’s primary appeal is mostly an afterthought in…