This post assumes readers are caught up on Game of Thrones through season 8, episode 2, “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms,” and thus contains spoilers up to that point. We are finally in the last season of Game of Thrones, and the closer we get to the end, the more long-awaited fan theories are […]
Avengers: Endgame, the twenty-second film in the MCU and the culmination of eleven years of cinematic storytelling, finally hits theaters this Friday. This film signals the end of Phase 3 and is most likely the swan song for a few beloved characters that have been there since the very beginning. However, the recent acquisition of […]
Back before Avengers: Infinity War hit theaters, we wrote down all of our theories about what might happen in the movie. Our predictions were based on the previous films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, our knowledge of the comics, our understanding of storytelling conventions, and, let’s face it, a dash of wishful thinking. Ultimately, while […]
The wait is finally over; after eight years, seven seasons, and scores of grisly deaths, Game of Thrones will kick off its eighth and final season this weekend. George R.R. Martin has famously said that the ending of A Song of Ice and Fire will be bittersweet, so while we expect the series to come […]
If you’ve seen Us, the sophomore directorial effort from Jordan Peele, you know that you haven’t really seen Us until you’ve seen it more than once. Unlike the complex-yet-accessible themes of Get Out, Peele’s thrilling and thought-provoking directorial debut, Us is not interested in providing its audience with straightforward answers, taking a more psychoanalytical approach […]
It’s no secret that the three of us have been eagerly anticipating Captain Marvel, the first film in the MCU to center a female character, ever since it was first announced. Based on one of our favorite Marvel Comics characters — former U.S. Air Force colonel and current half-Kree superhero Carol Danvers — Captain Marvel […]
Back before Avengers: Infinity War released last year, we posted a slew of theories about what we thought would happen in the movie, many of which turned out to be correct. A lot of factors went into how we came up with those theories: we analyzed trailers, considered the way various storylines have played out […]
Today, we’re talking about movies we can watch over and over again. It turns out all three of us are fond of rewatching our favorites, and so we all have a lot of movies we could list off immediately. But we opted to go not for our most rewatched films of all time (because we […]
The 91st Academy Awards air this Sunday, and while some people will be pleasantly pleased at which films get chosen to take home Oscars, many others are sure to be disappointed that their favorites didn’t win. In honor of the Oscars (and to offer a bit of perspective for everyone, including ourselves, who’s likely to […]
When the nominations for this year’s Academy Awards were first announced a few weeks ago, we read through them with a mixture of happy surprise, ambivalence, resignation, and disappointment. While we felt that some of the nominated films, performances, and technical work were well deserving of recognition, we couldn’t help but feel that many of […]