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What if Star Wars isn't Dead?
What if it's just fishing with the wrong bait?
Jul 11
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When the Tough Guy Rode off Down Sunset
25 years ago, as part of a settlement the tobacco companies made to resolve a series of lawsuits, the iconic “Marlboro Man” billboard that had stood…
Jul 4
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June 2025
GMFW Reviews: Snow White
After two years of controversy surrounding Disney’s live action remake of “Snow White”… after all the bad press, all the reshoots and re-cuts, all the…
Jun 20
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Is American Exceptionalism Coming Back into Fashion?
A second streaming documentary suggests a new Hollywood commitment to giving the audience what it wants
Jun 2
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May 2025
GMFW Recommends: "Hardcore" (1979)
If you are a cinephile like I am, then you’re likely aware of Paul Schrader’s “Hardcore”, the story of a pious midwestern single father (George C.
May 22
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Everybody is Kung Fu Fighting
It should be no secret that I’m a movie fanatic.
May 19
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Treating the Audience Like Adults
(Warning: this essay contains movie spoilers for both “Conclave” and “Judgment at Nuremberg”)
May 5
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April 2025
Dunking on Streaming Executives for Fun and Profit
The two thousand year catalog of Western philosophy is full of dire warnings about the dangers of pride and hubris, warnings like “pride goes before a…
Apr 28
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Dunking on Streaming Executives for Fun and Profit
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When Hollywood Did It Right: Poltergeist
(Note: This is Episode Five of a series of deep dive essays into some of Hollywood’s greatest and most-enduring movies… as defined by, well, by me)
Apr 21
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When Hollywood Did It Right: Poltergeist
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All The President's Men and the End of Objective Reality
How conspiracy theories are destroying us
Apr 7
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March 2025
Fisking the Vulture
...and no, that's not a euphemism
Mar 31
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Fisking the Vulture
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The Smooth Perfectly-Modulated Cultural Wisdom of Yacht Rock
“Yacht Rock (laughs)… where’s my fucking yacht?
Mar 25
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