A breakdown of Weapons' meaning, themes, and techniques—from parasitism and violence to ambiguity and Cregger’s creative ...

A haunting look at how 28 Years Later explores childhood, parental influence, and identity through a devastating ...

This is a live list where I rank the movies of 2025. If something isn’t on the list, I haven’t seen it. Leave your comments and we’ll talk. The movies within a category are in alphabetical order. I ...

A ranking of every movie Travis Bean watches. The latest entries include: Superbad, Final Destination Bloodlines, Abandoned, The Naked Spur—and more.

The Substance is an immediate cult classic. It’s arguably the best body horror movie of the 21st century. But also has meaningful, necessary things to say about our relationship with aging and modern ...

Welcome to our Colossus Movie Guide for The Birds. This guide contains our detailed library of content covering key aspects of the movie’s plot, ending, ...

There’s an easier way to discuss the end of End of Evangelion and Neon Genesis Evangelion. Then there’s the hard way. The hard way is dealing with the nuance of what happened. Specifically, the ...

Blink Twice joins a long line of r*pe-revenge films that started with Bergman’s The Virgin Spring and has continued through the decades with films like The Last House on the Left, I Spit on Your Grave ...

An in-depth breakdown of Ari Aster’s Eddington, exploring its themes, SolidGoldMagikarp, COVID allegory, and the collapse of shared reality.

MaXXXine and Ti West’s X trilogy — the pursuit of stardom To get the most out of MaXXXine you have to understand what Ti West has been doing with the X trilogy. The overriding theme is the influence ...