There’s something deeply satisfying about a mystery that starts with a crossword puzzle found on a dead guy. It’s so wonderfully specific—like the killer is taunting the New York Times Sunday edition....
If the first Crossword Mysteries movie was about proving Tess Harper could solve a crime with nothing but a pencil and a pattern‑obsessed brain, the second film, Proposing Murder , is about showing sh...
Before Silicon Valley discovered that the future could be mined, sold, and optimized, Steven Spielberg made Minority Report , a film that now plays less like speculative fiction and more like an uncom...
Okay, so 2003 horror was… how do we put this kindly… the cinematic equivalent of a mall fountain. Everything was glossy, safe, and engineered to offend absolutely no one. Studios were terrified of rea...
“Big bada boom.” There’s this moment early on—Korben Dallas slumped in his cramped apartment, cigarette filter glowing blue, the city outside stacked like a cosmic junk drawer—that tells you everythin...
If you want to understand why Lethal Weapon still hits like a shot of cinematic espresso, start with the Christmas‑tree‑lot shootout. It’s pure 1987 chaos: Mel Gibson ’s Riggs, all hair and unmedicate...
There are movies you watch , and then there are movies that get welded into your nervous system. Full Metal Jacket has always been the latter for me — a film that hit Gen X right in that sweet spot be...
Amy Berg ’s It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley plays like someone finally sat you down and said, “Okay, here’s the real story — not the myth, not the Tumblr version, the human one.” And honestly, it works....
Christmas Above the Clouds is the kind of holiday movie Gen‑Xers pretend we’re too emotionally fortified to enjoy — and then absolutely watch while eating leftover pizza over the sink. Directed by Pet...
Oy to the World! is one of those Hallmark holiday movies that sneaks up on you. You put it on while wrapping presents — tape stuck to your elbow, ribbon refusing to curl, the whole seasonal disaster —...
There’s a particular electricity to the early ’90s that you can’t fake — that mix of restlessness, sincerity, and cigarette‑smudged ambition that lived in every club, every rehearsal space, every half...
John Wick dropped in 2014, back when action movies were still trying to convince us that shaky‑cam fistfights counted as choreography. Then Keanu Reeves strolls in—mid‑career, mid‑life, mid‑everything...
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! …Unless you’re traveling through LAX on Christmas Eve when a team of military contractors are planning on releasing a bioweapon that can kill thousands, then,...
Three Wiser Men and a Boy picks up five years after the diaper‑scented chaos of the first film, and honestly, it’s kind of refreshing to see a Hallmark sequel that doesn’t pretend time is a flat circl...
A Keller Christmas Vacation is one of those Hallmark holiday movies that understands its assignment: give you family drama, European sparkle, and just enough emotional turbulence to make you feel like...
