Anyone else feel like we need a WandaVision season two? Or a movie to explain how the Wanda we saw at the end of WandaVision became the Wanda in Doctor…
Time is a precious commodity these days. How can you play a game unless you have a whole evening? There's setup, rule reading, etc. By the time we do all…
With my PAX East ticket dangling from the kitchen chalkboard, it is now starting to sink in that a convention center full of people is in my near future. This…
There's a reason why I call this series "The Slacker's Guide to the Oscars." As the minutes tick by, it's less and less likely this is the year I get…
Having no expectations or knowing little about the movie you're going to see might not seem advantageous, but sometimes it can stop you from avoiding movies you will enjoy. Tennis…
It's rare to see one reboot in the Best Picture race, let alone two. Or four. For a cherry on top, one of these is a sci-fi flick. For this…
They say don't judge a book by its cover, but I maybe should have in the case of Licorice Pizza. Does anyone else have directors or actors where the majority…
It might seem like an unlikely coupling of movies or a joke from Lewis Carrol with no punchline - Why is Nightmare Alley like Don't Look Up? But the Oscar…
Just the other night during movie club, the question "what movie surprised you" was posed. At the time, we weren't talking specifically about Oscar-nominated movies. Still, two in the Oscar…
For whatever reason, I didn't really have feelings about Disney's Encanto before I sat down to watch it. Now, I'm regularly listening to Surface Pressure and dropping the line "We…
Everything old is new again. Ghostbusters is no exception. I don't know about you, but the quality, or lack thereof, hasn't always been top-notch for some reboots and continuations. My…
There has been a lot of buzz and complaining around Disney's removal of the Fast Pass system in lieu of a paid service. I wasn't surprised by the grumblings. The…
I don't need to tell any of you that we've waited a long time for Black Widow's origin story. And of all the things laid at COVID-19's feet, the wait…
Of all of the Disney+ shows they announced, Loki was the one I was looking forward to the most. For being a trickster character, I felt I knew where they…
Boring. Anticlimactic. Missed opportunities. And probably a dozen other downer descriptions have come across my news feed regarding The Oscars. As much as I want to defend the show, I…