Dec 20, 2025 Cultural Diet Diamond Ninja Force by Godfrey Ho (1986) When construction workers uncover the long-lost burial ground of the Black Ninja clan, the clan wil…
Dec 19, 2025 Cultural Diet The Running Man by Edgar Wright (2025) I’ve been an unabashed Edgar Wright fan for years now thanks to titles like Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the …
Dec 19, 2025 34 Movies I Hope to See in 2026 Featuring Johnny Cage, Odysseus, Wile E. Coyote, Shaun the Sheep, Aslan, Doctor Doom, Paul Atreides, and many more.
Dec 15, 2025 Cultural Diet Caught Stealing by Darren Aronofsky (2025) Darren Aronofsky is best-known for dark, nightmarish, and highly stylized films like Pi, Requiem Fo…
Dec 14, 2025 Cultural Diet The Cure: The Show of a Lost World by Nick Wickham (2025) When they released Songs of a Lost World last year, The Cure marked the occasion by playing a three…
Dec 13, 2025 Cultural Diet Wake Up Dead Man by Rian Johnson (2025) Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) has never met a murder he couldn’t solve, but that might change when he…
Dec 11, 2025 Review Roundup: Rian Johnson’s Wake Up Dead Man Critics respond to Rian Johnson’s latest whodunit.
Dec 8, 2025 Cultural Diet One Battle After Another by Paul Thomas Anderson (2025) Bob Ferguson isn’t his real name. In a previous life, he was Pat Calhoun of the French 75, a far-le…
Dec 6, 2025 What will Netflix own after buying Warner Bros? A bunch of Hollywood classics, some of the world’s greatest superheroes, Harry Potter, and Bugs Bunny, for starters.
Dec 3, 2025 My Cultural Diet (November 2025): Ghost in the Shell, Pale Rider, Stranger Things A quick rundown of last month’s cultural experiences.
Dec 2, 2025 Cultural Diet Tron: Ares by Joachim Rønning (2025) I’ve always thought that 2010’s Tron: Legacy was an unnecessary sequel, but it’s practically a vita…
Nov 15, 2025 Cultural Diet Pale Rider by Clint Eastwood (1985) Clint Eastwood gets a wee bit Biblical in this ’80s western about a small community of prospectors …
Nov 13, 2025 Review Roundup: Edgar Wright’s The Running Man Critics respond to a modern take on Stephen King’s dystopian thriller.
Nov 7, 2025 Cultural Diet High Plains Drifter by Clint Eastwood (1973) Clearly inspired by his work with Sergio Leone in films like The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Clint …
Nov 6, 2025 Review Roundup: Dan Trachtenberg’s Predator: Badlands Critics respond to Dan Trachtenberg’s followup to 2022’s acclaimed Prey.
Nov 3, 2025 My Cultural Diet (October 2025): Alien, The Naked Gun, Silver Surfer, Satanic Panic A quick rundown of last month’s cultural experiences.
Oct 28, 2025 Cultural Diet Samurai Wolf by Hideo Gosha (1966) If you want evidence of the influence that spaghetti westerns had on samurai films — an influence t…
Oct 26, 2025 Cultural Diet A Samurai’s Sorrow by Akira Inoue (1993) A Samurai’s Sorrow — also known as A Samurai in Torment — certainly lives up to its title, thanks t…
Oct 18, 2025 Cultural Diet The Woman in Cabin 10 by Simon Stone (2025) Keira Knightley stars in this Netflix original as an investigative journalist who’s invited to trav…
Oct 17, 2025 Cultural Diet Alien by Ridley Scott (1979) I’m a bit embarrassed to admit this was my first time watching Ridley Scott’s sci-fi horror classic…