The Broken Queue: Why the Movie Industry Refuses to Fix Its Ticketing Crisis "For some reason, it has become acceptable to say to audiences, we are providing this empty room with a TV in it and just watch a film... If that experience for the audience is not valued... people stop going." — Christopher Nolan It is a scene that has become entirely too familiar for the modern film enthusiast. You clear your schedule, log into an app the exact second pre-orders open, select your s

“Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.” – Homer I’ve written about this before, but anticipation and reality rarely ever live up to our expectations. 2024’s Joker: Folie à Deux was highly anticipated and wound up a meandering mess of a musical whose predecessor somehow produced an Oscar-winning performance by its lead. The Mandalorian and Grogu felt like an overlong episode of the series, doing little to differentiate

It’s not often that I can start off a most anticipated list having already seen a couple of the movies. But it’s been a weird start to the year and I’ve been sick. And I haven’t felt like doing much of anything. But I must persevere. (It’s a head cold and I’m acting like it’s going to kill me) Movies are important to me and have been for most of my life. So talking about what exactly I’m looking forward to seems only natural. This is probably the twentieth time I’ve done this