2023 Year in Review
My thoughts on The Boy and the Heron, Barbie, Oppenheimer, John Wick Chapter 4, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, and many more.
2022 Year in Review
Happy New Year! 2022 was a big one for my writing — I’ve contributed a number of pieces to Entertainment Weekly, and also wrote tons of articles at Ampersand LA. I…
The Unambiguous Niceness of The Phantom of the Open
There’s a whole lot of niceness in the air. Pop culture has seen a substantial influx of wildly popular stories that seek to uplift the spirit by showing kind people…
The bittersweet romance and reconciliation of Spider-Man 3
15 years ago, Sam Raimi became the first person to direct a complete trilogy of comic book movies. Despite the ever-increasing dominance of franchise films at the box office, nobody…
2022 Oscar Nominees – All My Writing
The Oscars are tomorrow! I've compiled all my writing on the nominees here. The ones on Ampersand LA are generally longer-form; the others are my preliminary thoughts on Letterboxd that…
A Bittersweet Slice of Homemade Licorice Pizza
At some point, every adult has dreamed of returning to the place they grew up at the time they grew up there. Filmmakers are the only ones in a position…
The Top 21 Movies of 2021
2021 was marginally better than 2020 as a whole, but substantially better for movies in my estimation. There was an unusually large deluge of big studio blockbusters and smaller-budgeted projects…
2021’s Best Picture Nominees, Ranked
The Oscars are right around the corner, and I’ve finally caught up with this year’s eight Best Picture nominees. These Academy Awards are as weird as the year that they’re…
Every Disney Animated Movie, Ranked
Raya and the Last Dragon hits Disney Plus this week. To commemorate the occasion, I ranked every animated movie in Disney’s illustrious, bumpy history. The films below represent the “Disney…
Month In Review: February 2021
February is the perfect month for romantic comedy consumption, so I watched as many as humanly possible. They varied substantially in quality. Below are three of the most memorable ––…