Continuing the provincial theme of the last three episodes of the podcast (albeit without the urban component featured alongside the rural i...

I hoped and suspected that The Zone of Interest would be the next film patrons picked for me to cover following its prominence at the Acade...

January 2024 was the busiest month on my Patreon in five years - maybe ever. Not only did I offer the usual Twin Peaks character study for ...

(I covered the rest of the Up series in 2016.) The ninth entry of the Up documentary series finds itself - if not necessarily its subjects...

An unnamed woman (Scarlett Johansson) scopes her terrain and stalks her prey in nocturnal Glasgow, driving a van around mostly empty stre...

Both highly relevant and very much a time capsule, Adam Curtis' The Power of Nightmares depicts the War on Terror as a clash between ...

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After preparing what ended up being the second part of this double feature for a December episode, I realized it was too short to justify a ...

When I looked through my archive for something to share this month, I was struck by my episode on Elephant recorded for patrons in early 2...

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For what will hopefully be the last time (I think it's only happened once before) my podcast was a little late this week. This cro...

A visual tribute to David Lean's Great Expectations (1946) & Alfonso Cuaron's Great Expectations (1998)

In 2010, I launched a three-month series called "The Sunday Matinee" for Wonders in the Dark which covered several films each ...

With this sixties British cult classic, I faced an unusual dilemma: despite a clear (arguably) beginning and end, The Prisoner has no o...

Cooper is back with a vengeance; the first half of Part 13 is almost entirely dominated by both of his incarnations. Among other topics,...

After two long episodes (especially last week), this one's a nice little digestible nugget - it comes in at almost exactly an hour. ...

This ended up being a surprisingly long podcast (as well as a surprisingly late one - I got the actual episode up within an hour of it...

After months of hype, the Return rewatch series has begun! From now through September 3, I will publish a new podcast entry every Monda...

For the last time - at least for a while! - I'm releasing a podcast at the very end of the week. I've already got a lot of the n...

update: this page now includes a link to the podcast This week's podcast features a couple intense movies with very different appr...