My Favorite Album of Each Month of 2025
Over the last two years, I’ve made a tradition of writing about my top 10 favorite albums of the year. It’s been a good excuse to plug the music I like,...
Every Disney Animated Film Ranked Worst To Best
I like animation I like cartoons I like animated movies I’ve been a lifelong fan of Disney movies so I watched and ranked all of them. These reviews are...
Rubber Soul at 60: The Beatles Against The Wall
It was October 12, 1965, and the Beatles were exhausted. How could they not be? They were nearing the end of the most chaotic year any band has ever...
How Pixar Made Their 'Top Scarer'... Not Scary
Monsters, Inc. belongs to Disney/Pixar If there’s one thing you can learn about me from my online persona, it’s that Monsters, Inc. is my favorite movie ever...
The Intersection of Psychanalysis & Genre
This was my final essay written for my Advanced Film Theory Class (Spring 2025). It focuses on the relationship between audience psychoanalysis and film...
My Top 10 Favorite Albums of 2024
albumsssssssssss 2024 10. Magdalena Bay - Imaginal Disk A lot of genres had banner years in 2024, but if any one genre defined the year for me, it was pop....
CTVA 215 Week 14 - Hanky Panky (2023)
Hanky Panky, a film written and directed by my own professor Nick Roth, is both a deeply silly and absurd horror-comedy and an insightful look into the...
CTVA 215 Week 13 - Hedwig & The Angry Inch (2001)
Hedwig & The Angry Inch feels like a film that was made specifically for me, at least in theory. It’s a pastiche of the lifestyle of rock & roll musicians...
CTVA 215 Week 12 - Ginger Snaps (2000)
Ginger Snaps maintains a unique tone and aesthetic throughout its runtime, finding a balance between a freaky werewolf film and a Disney Channel Original...
CTVA 215 Week 11 - The Big Lebowski (1998)
The Big Lebowski has all the hallmarks of a classic cult film. A film entirely on its own wavelength, half neo-noir and half stoner comedy, that doesn’t find...
CTVA 215 Week 10 - Tank Girl (1995)
Sometimes the best way to watch a film is to just let it wash over you. Not necessarily turning your brain off, but meeting the film where it's at, accepting...
CTVA 215 Week 9 - Twin Peaks: "Pilot" (1990)
I went into Twin Peaks with kind of an unusual perspective, one that die hard Twin Peaks fans would almost certainly say is the wrong way to watch the...
CTVA 215 Week 8 - Akira (1988)
I don’t think I was ready for Akira. This is one of those films that’s proven very culturally influential, where I’ve managed to learn enough about it to...
CTVA 215 Week 7 - The Stuff (1985)
I don’t think I’ve ever watched a film that made itself up as it goes as obviously as this does. At no point could I predict what would happen next, not just...
CTVA 215 Week 6 - Casablanca (1942)
It’s hard to have a unique perspective on a film as widely beloved, and widely discussed, as Casablanca. However, looking at this film through the lens of...
CTVA 215 Week 5 - Videodrome (1983)
Films like Videodrome fascinate me. When a film is able to capture aspects of modern life so perfectly and can analyze and criticize those aspects of...
CTVA 215 Week 4 - Plan 9 From Outer Space (1957)
Maybe the ultimate camp film. These grave-robbing aliens and their Plan 9 to turn human corpses into vampire zombies that carry fainted women around...
CTVA 215 Week 3 - Pink Flamingos (1972)
Pink Flamingos is a disgusting landmark of American film. There are themes that I think are worth exploring and deconstructing, but you can tell that John...
CTVA 215 Week 2 - Harold & Maude (1971)
There are few films more life affirming than Harold & Maude. I was actually surprised to learn that there were critics at the time who believed that this...
CTVA 215 Week 1 - El Topo (1970) Review
To start off my History of Cult Cinema class, we began the semester watching one of the most esoteric, thought-provoking and all around strange films I’ve...