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 ––…
Month in Review – January 2021
At the end of every month of 2021, I’m going to be posting five of my best reviews from my Letterboxd here. In January, my girlfriend and I watched a…
The Top 20 Movies of 2020
2020 sucked. There’s no point in trying to sugar-coat its awfulness. For me, watching movies, new and old, was one of the only activities that made life feel bearable. I…
My Best First-Watches of 2020 – Part 3
Part 1 Part 2 Close Encounters of the Third Kind/A.I. Artificial Intelligence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBUAQGwzGk0 Steven Spielberg is among my favorite living filmmakers, and I somehow hadn’t seen two of his finest…
My Best First-Watches of 2020 – Part 2
Part 1 Part 3 Rope/Vertigo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Geu4LXm_GlY Alfred Hitchcock is one of the most accessible directors from Hollywood’s golden age, primarily due to his signature mastery of suspense. But just because…
My Best First-Watches of 2020 – Part 1
Part 2 Part 3 If you have known me at literally any point in my life, it won’t surprise you to hear that I watched a lot of movies in…
The Complete Guide to Jack Antonoff’s Musical Multiverse
If you’ve listened to pop music in the last decade, you’ve probably encountered Jack Antonoff’s music. As a gifted songwriter and multi-talented instrumentalist, the Bleachers frontman has become the go-to collaborator for Taylor Swift, Lorde, Lana Del Rey, St. Vincent, and numerous other pop stars.
The Monumental Musicality of Spike Lee
Tonight, David Byrne’s Broadway show American Utopia hits HBO, directed by Spike Lee. The acclaimed filmmaker has never made a full-blown musical, but music remains essential to his distinct artistic…
Every Aaron Sorkin Movie, Ranked
Some consider Sorkin the greatest living American screenwriter, while others dismiss him as overly indulgent and out of touch. It’s certainly true that not all of his scripts translate into great films, and some of them may not even be great scripts in the first place. But all of Sorkin’s work is utterly engaging, and his voice is one of the most distinct in modern American cinema.