Sunday, November 23, 2025

No, you look like me, which is interesting, if rather impertinent


CROSSED SWORDS
aka The Prince and the Pauper

1977 UK/1978 USA
Directed by Richard Fleischer
Written by Berta Dominguez, Pierre Spengler, and George MacDonald Fraser (based on the novel by Mark Twain)

Spoilers: moderate

Friday, November 21, 2025

mother!


DIE MY LOVE

2025
Directed by Lynne Ramsay
Written by Enda Walsh, Alice Birch, and Lynne Ramsay (based on the novel Die, My Love by Ariana Harwicz) 

Spoilers: moderate

Saturday, November 15, 2025

Tuesday, November 11, 2025

It's a t-rex, they've been around since, I dunno, the 90s?


JURASSIC WORLD DOMINION

2022
Directed by Colin Trevorrow
Written by Derek Connolly, Emily Carmichael, and Colin Trevorrow

Spoilers: moderate

Friday, October 31, 2025

Census Bloodbath: Hello, nurse


VISITING HOURS

It's Halloween again, and for our 12th annual Switcheroo with Brennan Klein of Popcorn Culture, we're doing what we always do this time of year when we turn the tables on one another: he takes over my Cardboard Science feature and reviews some of those corny mid-century sci-fi movies, and I do some fieldwork for Brennan's Census Bloodbath, as he gives me a slate of sick 80s slasher flicks from his ever-expanding encyclopedia of death.  This year we're back to full power, with three psyche-scarring films of Brennan's selection.

1982
Directed by Jean-Claude Lord
Written by Brian Taggert

Spoilers: moderate

Monday, October 27, 2025

Census Bloodbath: This is a tool, not a toy


THE CARPENTER

It's Halloween again, and for our 12th annual Switcheroo with Brennan Klein of Popcorn Culture, we're doing what we always do this time of year when we turn the tables on one another: he takes over my Cardboard Science feature and reviews some of those corny mid-century sci-fi movies, and I do some fieldwork for Brennan's Census Bloodbath, as he gives me a slate of sick 80s slasher flicks from his ever-expanding encyclopedia of death.  This year we're back to full power, with three psyche-scarring films of Brennan's selection.

1988
Directed by David Wellington
Written by Doug Taylor

Spoilers: moderate