Knives Out and its BRILLIANT Political Satire

Knives Out is arguably the most groundbreaking whodunit released this century. Granted, it's a bit early to tell. Benoit Blanc has yet to cement his legacy in other entries or media. Hercule Poirot's got a one-century head start on him. Sherlock's got two. Last time, I laid out how the film's plot inventively subverted murder …

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How Knives Out SHATTERS Murder Mystery Conventions

Knives Out, Rian Johnson's 2019 offering, is a surpsingly entertaining whodunit with immense rewatch value. It's also a superbly crafted film that upended conventions. And...it somehow made detective fiction cool again. Agatha Christie and Arthur Conan Doyle are long gone, so...high time to inject the genre with new blood! Enter Rian Johnson and his unorthodox …

Well, I’m 30 Now (8/3/2021)

What's up, guys? I haven't posted in a while, and today's my 30th birthday, so...obligatory birthday post? Frankly, I don't like nor care for these "omg my 20s are over" porn blogs. One solar cycle passed between August 2 and 3rd. Nothing magical happened in this random spot in the Milky Way that made me …

Jim Morrison: Breaking Free from the Greatest Generation

"Break on through to the other side!" snarled Jim Morrison on the first track of The Doors' 1967 debut album. The Doors. 1967. Elektra Records. Morrison's musical existence revolved around spirituality and enlightenment. The band's name came from Aldous Huxley's The Doors of Perception, a memoir detailing psychedelic experiences. Morrison was often drunk and stoned …

The Terminator: A Sci-Fi Story’s Beautiful Execution

James Cameron had a fever-induced dream one night in 1982. Nay, a nightmare. It could've been a lack of sleep over his involvement in Piranhas II, who knows? But James Cameron had something of a Biblical revelation one night. He was struck with a vision of a robot traveling through time to assassinate him. This …