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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.
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Everybody is Kung Fu Fighting
It should be no secret that I’m a movie fanatic.
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Treating the Audience Like Adults
(Warning: this essay contains movie spoilers for both “Conclave” and “Judgment at Nuremberg”)
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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…
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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)
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All The President's Men and the End of Objective Reality
How conspiracy theories are destroying us
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March 2025

Fisking the Vulture
...and no, that's not a euphemism
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The Smooth Perfectly-Modulated Cultural Wisdom of Yacht Rock
“Yacht Rock (laughs)… where’s my fucking yacht?
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Happy "Snow White" Release Week
It’s finally here!
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The "Heroes" of the Fourth Estate
Throughout its history, one of the most durable Hollywood movie genres has been that of the heroic journalist working alone, always at great risk to…
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