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The Best Stuff I Found in 2025
Dec 31, 2025
In Review: Marty Supreme
Dec 26, 2025
Top 10 Films of 2025
Dec 19, 2025
When You're Making The Movie Up as You Go
Nov 26, 2025
Why AI "Art" Feels So Wrong
Nov 5, 2025
In Praise of Comfort Films
Sep 30, 2025
Why Does Sinners Look So Good?
Aug 29, 2025
Why The Movies Will Never Feel The Same Again
Aug 3, 2025
Why The Movies Don't Feel The Same Anymore
Jul 31, 2025
In Praise of Character Acting
Jun 30, 2025
A Casual Guide to Film Appreciation
Jun 29, 2025
Finding Connection Through Art - Cannes Week 2
May 29, 2025
This Is The Future of Cinema
May 28, 2025
Eddington's Americana Lunacy - Cannes Week 1
May 17, 2025
Art? At A Time Like This?
Apr 17, 2025
Why Is It So Hard To Make A Good Musical Biopic?
Apr 15, 2025
The Brilliance of Severance's Disturbing Precision
Mar 28, 2025
Have Film and TV Lost Their Imagination?
Mar 5, 2025
Willem Dafoe's War on Realism
Feb 25, 2025
Interesting Art Requires Risking Failure
Feb 18, 2025
The Top 10 Films of 2024
Jan 29, 2025
Why David Lynch Was Such a Brilliant Artist
Jan 18, 2025
David Lynch changed TV, Film, and How I Think About Art Forever
Jan 16, 2025
Why Does The Substance Look Like That?
Dec 20, 2024
The Best Cinematography I've Ever Seen
Nov 25, 2024
How Disaster Media Fails
Nov 8, 2024
Why They Just Don't Care About Continuity
Sep 23, 2024
Hollywood's Obsession with Ambition
Aug 28, 2024
Anthropomorphizing the Algorithm
Aug 12, 2024
Why Does Acting Feel So Different Now?
Jul 29, 2024
In Praise of Great Exposition
Jun 24, 2024
When you REALLY know how to use practical effects
May 13, 2024
Watching Both Parts of Dune as One Movie - Review
May 8, 2024
How The Zone of Interest was made as two films
Apr 25, 2024
Why The Zone of Interest Does Not Let You See
Apr 25, 2024
How Should Movies Depict Real Suffering?
Apr 19, 2024
Civil War - On The Complicated Power of War Photography
Apr 14, 2024
The Hidden Villain in Killers of The Flower Moon
Mar 28, 2024
Review: Perfect Days
Mar 12, 2024
It's not video. On AI "video" and post-cinema.
Mar 4, 2024
Refusing To Look: The Zone of Interest
Feb 23, 2024
Who Should Win at The Oscars 2024?
Feb 21, 2024
How Did The Oscars End Up Like This?
Feb 14, 2024
The Curse is a Masterpiece of Art House TV
Jan 29, 2024
Why The Curse is Such A Brilliant Show
Jan 25, 2024
Dreaming of the Apocalypse
Jan 3, 2024
The Top 10 Movies of 2023
Dec 28, 2023
The Biggest Decision You'll Make For Any Scene
Dec 19, 2023
How The Art of Filmmaking Is Still Evolving
Nov 29, 2023
The Best Acting I've Ever Seen
Oct 26, 2023
Watching the greatest living director contemplate his own legacy
Oct 18, 2023
Why The Bear Gets In Your Head
Aug 24, 2023
The Fictional Truth of Asteroid City
Jul 27, 2023
The Strange Reality of The Grand Budapest Hotel
Jun 29, 2023
Metamodernism at the Movies
May 23, 2023
Why Do Movies Feel So Different Now?
May 23, 2023
The Best Movie About AI
Apr 27, 2023
Long Live The New Flesh
Apr 17, 2023
The Best Performances Of 2022
Mar 30, 2023
5 Questions About The Banshees of Inisherin
Feb 23, 2023
How The Sounds of Dune Were Made
Jan 31, 2023
The Top 10 Movies of 2022
Dec 22, 2022
In Praise of Subtle Cinematography
Dec 2, 2022
Why Andor Feels So Real
Nov 23, 2022
In Praise of Subtle Performance
Nov 9, 2022
What is Screen Presence?
Nov 8, 2022
The Unsettling Power of Sonic Ambiguity
Oct 31, 2022
How Nope Tricks Your Ears
Oct 21, 2022
The Real Villain of Nope
Sep 29, 2022
How Real Is The Rehearsal?
Sep 13, 2022
Better Call Saul Did It Better
Aug 15, 2022
Why The Bear Hits So Hard
Jul 26, 2022
Why Everything Everywhere All At Once Hits So Hard
Jul 5, 2022
Labyrinth Ion - A Film By Thomas Flight
Jun 9, 2022
Why You Should Watch Experimental Documentaries
Jun 9, 2022
My Trip to Cannes Film Festival 2022
Jun 2, 2022
Why The Batman's Sound is Different
May 6, 2022
Visual Perspective in The Batman - Companion Video
May 3, 2022
Was I Wrong About The Irishman?
Apr 14, 2022
What is Everything Everywhere All At Once?
Apr 13, 2022
The 2022 Academy Awards
Mar 28, 2022
Why Donald Glover's Atlanta Feels So Weird
Mar 28, 2022
Why Dune's Editing Feels Different
Mar 8, 2022
The Art Movement That Changed Film Forever
Feb 22, 2022
How Pig Deconstructed John Wick
Feb 1, 2022
The Absurd Intricacy of The French Dispatch
Jan 19, 2022
The Evolution of Paul Thomas Anderson
Dec 21, 2021
Why Dune's VFX Feels So Real
Nov 16, 2021
What Makes Dune's Score So Brilliant?
Nov 4, 2021
Dune Sound Design Breakdown - Companion Video
Nov 3, 2021
The Succession Character You Never See
Oct 19, 2021
Why Omar Little was the Heart of The Wire
Sep 28, 2021
Omar's Code - Companion Video
Sep 27, 2021
What The Green Knight Wants You To Think About
Sep 17, 2021
Malick's Letter to Scorsese
Aug 30, 2021
The Deep Duality of Martin Scorsese
Aug 27, 2021
The Movies That Shaped Moonrise Kingdom
Jul 28, 2021
Why Were David Lynch's Movies So Strange?
Jul 13, 2021
Uncut Gems: Carefully Crafted Chaos
Jun 29, 2021
Why is Bo Burnham's Inside Like That?
Jun 14, 2021
Why Do Terrence Malick's Movies Look Like That?
May 26, 2021
What is Cinema?
May 12, 2021
Is Martin Scorsese Right About Cinema Dying?
May 11, 2021
Why Nomadland Won Best Director
Apr 27, 2021
How To Get Nominated for Best Editing
Apr 15, 2021
Justice League vs. The Snyder Cut - Filmmaking Comparison
Mar 25, 2021
A Beginner's Guide to Ingmar Bergman
Mar 16, 2021
The Director Who Mastered The Art of Filming Faces
Mar 16, 2021
Malick responds to Bergman
Mar 1, 2021
Sound of Metal's Brilliant Sound Design
Feb 23, 2021
Why You Can't Hear The Dialogue in Tenet
Feb 2, 2021
The Genius of Soul's Fake Light
Jan 19, 2021
The Gentle Brilliance of First Cow's Editing
Dec 29, 2020
TENET - Nolan Has An Exposition Problem
Dec 15, 2020
Why Do Yorgos Lanthimos' Movies Feel So Weird?
Nov 27, 2020
Is Parasite Better in Black and White?
Nov 18, 2020
How To Create Conflict Without Dialogue
Nov 11, 2020
Mulan's Terrible Editing - A Breakdown
Oct 20, 2020
Why Do Wes Anderson Movies Look Like That?
Oct 9, 2020
When The Editing is Bad on Purpose
Sep 22, 2020
How To Steal Like Wes Anderson - The Grand Budapest Hotel
Sep 8, 2020
Bong Joon-Ho Ranked
Aug 20, 2020
How Chaplin Made Me Less Anxious in 8 Seconds
Aug 13, 2020
Damien Chazelle's Vertical Cinema Shot Breakdown
Aug 8, 2020
Palm Springs vs. Groundhog Day: Finding Meaning in The Loop
Jul 27, 2020
What Makes TikTok So Popular?
Jul 14, 2020
When You Meticulously Plan Every Shot
Jun 24, 2020
Fleabag Play vs TV Show - A Comparison
Jun 1, 2020
Is the Crazy Long Take in Extraction a Gimmick?
May 19, 2020
Q & A - My Process, Favorite Movies and TV, How I Got Into Film, Equipment, and more!
May 6, 2020
How 1917 Edits With The Camera
Apr 28, 2020
Why Greta Gerwig's Little Women is The Best
Apr 14, 2020
What To Watch During Your Quarantine
Mar 30, 2020
Parasite's Perfect Editing
Mar 3, 2020
The Brilliant Cinematography of Parasite
Feb 20, 2020
Which Film Should’ve Won The Oscar for Best Editing?
Feb 5, 2020
The Visual Architecture of Parasite
Jan 28, 2020
How Robert Eggers Creates Atmosphere
Jan 14, 2020
How Scorsese Updated Goodfellas
Dec 17, 2019
My Favorite 15 Seconds From The Godfather | A Breakdown
Nov 20, 2019
Why Martin Scorsese is Right About Marvel Movies
Nov 6, 2019
How Vince Gilligan Crafted El Camino and Breaking Bad
Oct 29, 2019
Why Interactive Content Failed
Aug 13, 2019
Chernobyl - A Masterclass in Perspective
Jul 25, 2019
The Wire - Why Every Season Matters
Jun 28, 2019
Chernobyl Show vs Reality - Footage Comparison
Jun 12, 2019
How The Wire Uses Character Moments to Convey Its Themes
May 24, 2019
Why The Wire is one of the Most Brilliant TV Shows Ever
Apr 29, 2019
Why Are There So Many Group Therapy Scenes?
Mar 28, 2019
Bohemian Rhapsody's Terrible Editing - A Breakdown
Mar 14, 2019
What The Coen Brother's First Film Teaches Us About Their Style - Blood Simple
Mar 2, 2019
How to Make a Movie with Tommy Wiseau
Feb 2, 2019
Are Spoilers Actually Good?
Jan 14, 2019
The Directors Who Mastered The Art Of The Minor Character
Dec 18, 2018
How Bo Burnham Watches YouTube
Dec 10, 2018
The Hotel Amenities Wars
Nov 28, 2018
How Terrence Malick's Style Developed
Nov 15, 2018
Shawn Mendes Lost in Japan / Lost in Translation Comparison
Oct 31, 2018
Ex Machina is a Turing Test
Oct 22, 2018
The Genius Way Better Call Saul Starts its Scenes
Sep 18, 2018
Why Are Nolan Movies Like That?
Aug 29, 2018
Language and Translation in Isle of Dogs
Aug 22, 2018
How A Quiet Place Creates Suspense Scene Breakdown
Aug 15, 2018
What Wes Anderson's First Film Teaches Us About The Rest
Jul 17, 2018
How The Disaster Artist Adapts the Book
Jun 20, 2018
How Rian Johnson Created a Breathtaking Explosion in The Last Jedi
Jun 12, 2018
Why Movies Never Actually Show Science
May 9, 2018
How Cars Shaped The Movies
Apr 3, 2018
Editing an Interview - David Letterman's "My Next Guest" Has a Distracting Problem.
Mar 13, 2018
Malick's Obsessions
Feb 22, 2018
How Damien Chazelle Crafts an Ending
Feb 7, 2018
Your Netflix is Special
Jan 30, 2018
Blade Runner vs. Blade Runner 2049 | Cinematography Compared
Jan 16, 2018
Tell A Story in Three Frames | The Panic In Needle Park
Dec 18, 2017
A Realistic Portrait of The American South
Oct 30, 2017
Mindhunter vs Real Life Ed Kemper - Side By Side Comparison
Oct 24, 2017
How Memes Capture Our Attention - Distracted Boyfriend
Sep 28, 2017
How Edgar Wright Sets Up Baby Driver - First Scene Breakdown
Aug 29, 2017
Twin Peaks: The Return - How David Lynch Picked Up Where He Left Off
Jul 31, 2017
Why Coca-Cola's Postmodern Soda Failed
Jul 10, 2017
Why Better Call Saul is Brilliant
Jun 19, 2017
Showing Realistic Grief - Manchester By The Sea
Mar 20, 2017
The Snowden Movie vs Real Life
Feb 10, 2017
In Praise of Exposition
Jan 9, 2017
How Derek Cianfrance Communicates Themes
Dec 1, 2016
Nightcrawler Incriminates Its Viewers
Oct 21, 2016
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