YouTube video by Dodo Eraser

Jameson Draper revisits Marvin Gaye's divisive, atmospheric masterpiece I Want You

The text came from his buddy Andy while David was eating tasteless Ethiopian food that he knew would be bad because the menu prices were just too high. Caleb is dead. Then the floodgates opened. Caleb...

I am living in a post-list era. At least not ranked lists. I just wanted to take the holiday season to share some things I loved this year. Maybe you'll discover something new!

Paul Thomas Anderson adapts a tale of modern politics and vast conspiracies as a vehicle to tell another story of love, resilience and fatherhood in his grandest and most accessible film to date.

Zach Cregger's horror epic, 'Weapons', works on multiple levels, but gets its true point across when the supernatural allegories fall into the background.

Ari Aster's fourth film takes big swings and is not without its flaws, but is the director's most resonant work to date.

by Jameson Draper —————— If I remember correctly, it was the last day of spring, one that is summer in everything but name. In Maryland, summer starts in early M…

Robert Altman's most ambitious film is not just about country music but America's idolatry and populism in the face of our declining collective hubris.

Barbara Loden's only directorial effort is quiet poetry on the physical independence and intellectual subordination of women in the United States.

Paul Thomas Anderson's nostalgic adaptation laments American decay by way of pot-smoking private investigators, reformed hippies, street-level cops, CIA snitches and the faceless hand of fascism.

Jameson reflects on Modern Baseball's opus 'You're Gonna Miss It All,' a record that sounds just as good today as it did on release

Transcribed from my journal, March 10th, 2025

“Some of the best nights of my life were being high in parking lots.” The texture of this film is a full spectrum cyber dreamscape of the halcyon days, seen through the attention deficit eye of late-e...

YouTube video by Nihil Reich

A baroque masterpiece that empowers imagination, laments the loss of innocence, bows to art, and bends reality, this might be the greatest movie of all time, and I don't say that lightly. I've spent 2...

This review may contain spoilers. Visit the page to bypass this warning and read the review.

“Well, they’re saved from the blessings of civilization.” A near perfect movie that juxtaposes the ambition of the American dream on the frontier with the sordid path we took to get there. For a long ...

"Some men change. Well, they don't change - they reveal. They reveal themselves over time, you know?" Famous for his cryptic films (a descriptor I find reductive), INLAND EMPIRE is admittedly the most...

Using Lynch's own philosophy to cope with his death.

With each new year comes greater calamities— are personal goals and resolutions rendered meaningless?

"Facts do not make history." From the banal everyman to history's most polarizing enigmas, nobody writes intrinsic pain, suffering, guilt, agony, and torture like Paul Schrader. A man who grew up in a...

"Is this the ear you can't hear in? George Bailey, I'll love you 'til the day I die." At once timeless and a time capsule, IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE is meant to be watched in a cavernous, dark theater on ...

Luigi Mangione is into alternative health facts, Elon Musk, Artificial Intelligence, and, apparently, killing CEOs— but his act transcends personal beliefs.

If counterculture’s end was signified in Dennis Hopper’s performance in EASY RIDER, then its final fumes were callously stomped out with Dennis Hopper’s OUT OF THE BLUE.  I don’t think I expected this...

Is this a film about mental illness? Or is it a film about violent misogyny? Is it both?  For unseasoned David Lynch viewers, fantastic surrealism rears its head at the forefront of his style. The mor...

"If you were diagnosed with cancer, you'd start dying right away. But not this fella. That's when he started living." The first Kurosawa film I watched was RASHOMON and I liked it but didn't love it. ...

One of the few Scorsese movies I hadn't seen. De Niro is incredible, the writing is fantastic. "Better to be king for a night than a schmuck for a lifetime!" I really love the way this film plays with...