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Film School: The Odyssey (2026)

The Odyssey (2026)
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From Odyss-A to Odyss-Z: our lessons from Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of Homer’s epic.

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July 31, 2026 Film School, Reviews

Review: Disclosure Day (2026)

Disclosure Day (2026)
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There’s old-fashioned, and then there’s out of touch – and even Steven Spielberg, cinematic maestro (not least of first-contact alien movies), can miss the mark.

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June 10, 2026 Reviews

Review: Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die (2026)

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die (2026)
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Gore Verbinski’s angry sci-fi caper takes aim not only at AI, but at you and I.

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February 13, 2026 Reviews

Review: Wonder Man (series, 2026)

Wonder Man (series, 2026)
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A sweet series about two struggling actors trying to make it in Hollywood – which just happens to be set in the Marvel universe.

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January 26, 2026 Reviews

Review: The Running Man (2025)

The Running Man (2025)
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Sets up a wild ride, delivers a righteous misfire.

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November 5, 2025 Reviews

Film School: One Battle After Another (2025)

One Battle After Another (2025)
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Lessons from the production and portrayals of race, gender, and politics in Paul Thomas Anderson’s film about revolutionaries and supremacists, parents and children.

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September 25, 2025 Film School

Review: The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025)

The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025)
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Superhero movie fatigue is real…

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July 23, 2025 Reviews

Review: Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning (2023) & Final Reckoning (2025)

Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One (2023)
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Too meaningless to even be pretentious: a detailed autopsy of the two-part finale to the Mission Impossible series.

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May 17, 2025 Film School

Review: Thunderbolts* (2025)

Thunderbolts* (2025)
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Maybe the best-looking Marvel movie since Iron Man (2010)?

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April 30, 2025 Reviews

Film School: Andor (series, 2022-2025)

Andor (2022-2025)
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Storytelling lessons from a political drama for our moment.

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April 23, 2025 Film School, Reviews

Review: Andor (series, 2022-2025)

Andor (2022-2025)
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The best Star War since Empire – and far, far better than we had any right or hope to expect.

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April 23, 2025 Reviews

Review: Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024)

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024)
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A wild ride, at its best when it’s least concerned with being a prequel.

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May 22, 2024 Reviews

Film School: Monkey Man (2024)

Monkey Man (2024)
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Dev Patel really said: Be the movie you want to see.

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April 4, 2024 Film School

Film School: The Killer (2023)

The Killer (2023)
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Inside the cinematography, editing, and VFX of David Fincher’s thriller.

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October 14, 2023 Film School

Film School: The Creator (2023)

The Creator (2023)
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More innovative as a technical milestone, and as a model for independent film-makers, than as a science-fiction story.

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September 27, 2023 Film School

Review: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023)
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Never imagined saying “Donatello is my fave!”, yet here we are.

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August 2, 2023 Reviews

Film School: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)
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Process and commentary, as shared by the film’s animators.

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June 18, 2023 Film School

Film School: Puss In Boots: The Last Wish (2022)

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022)
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Painterly panic and charming acceptance.

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December 7, 2022 Film School

Review: Bullet Train (2022)

Bullet Train (2022)
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Why does this barely-tossed salad of 25-year-old film tropes, with no invigoration or distinct vision, even exist?

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July 18, 2022 Reviews

Review: Ms Marvel (season 1, 2022)

Ms Marvel (2022)
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The first time Marvel (the studio) seems to care about one of its female characters.

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July 16, 2022 Reviews

Review: Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)

Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)
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A half-plate of warmed-up leftovers from Ragnarok.

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July 7, 2022 Reviews

Review: Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)

Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
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A miracle we must protect at all costs.

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March 11, 2022 Reviews

Review: The Batman (2022)

The Batman (2022)
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A hot mess.

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March 3, 2022 Reviews

Review: The Matrix Resurrections (2021)

The Matrix Resurrections (2021)
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While it made me miss the meticulous craft of the original… it also made me cry.

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December 18, 2021 Reviews

Review: Eternals (2021)

Eternals (2021)
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Beautiful people, photographed beautifully, with zero chemistry between them (romantic, comedic, or dramatic). How does this happen? The answer may be found in the editing.

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October 18, 2021 Reviews

Film School: Dune: Part One (2021)

Dune (2021)
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Breakdowns of form and function in Denis Villeneuve’s epic adaptation of Frank Herbert’s sci-fi classic.

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September 3, 2021 Film School

Review: Loki (season 1, 2021)

Loki (series, 2021-)
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#JusticeForSylvie

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July 18, 2021 Reviews

Film School: The Look of ‘Loki’ (Season 1, 2021)

Loki (series, 2021-)
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A scrapbook of the stunning visuals in the first season of the Marvel series.

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June 18, 2021 Film School, Reviews

Review: The Falcon And The Winter Soldier (2021)

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The caustic, the clumsy, and the commendable collide in Marvel’s second – and second eerily prescient – TV series.

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April 23, 2021 Reviews

Review: WandaVision (2021)

WandaVision (2021)
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The show’s true meta is its eerie, impossible, prescience.

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January 15, 2021 Reviews

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