Black Bag uses the spy genre to explore relationship dynamics that explain why some couples make it and others don't. We'll explain the themes and subtext.

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This is a live list where I rank the movies of 2025. If something isn’t on the list, I haven’t seen it. Leave your comments and we’ll talk. The movies within a category are in alphabetical order. I ...

Hi, my name is Travis Bean. And I have…well. I have what some people say is “unique” taste in movies. Other people would use different adjectives: terrible, questionable, contrarian, etc. And hey, ...

I’ll tell you why Captain America: Brave New World failed. It doesn’t build Sam Wilson up as a character. Look at successful movies about superheroes and superhero-adjacent characters. The Dark Knight ...

I have a new motto for 2025, and perhaps for the rest of my life: keep it simple. The lack of simplicity has ruined this world. Little did we know that by complicating everything we do, we complicate ...

There’s a beautiful moment in Lips of Blood where Frédéric attends a screening of one of Jean Rollin’s films. As Stephen Jones and Kim Newman point out in their commentary, it’s a typical meta moment ...