Wars not make one great, Donnie.

Check out my recent piece on DIE MY LOVE and how I expected more of an effort from it. flaszonfilm.com/2026/02/25/t...

By choosing NOT to watch THE DEAD ZONE TV show you are choosing not to learn what it feels like to watch a character deliver a monologue at a tornado.

Here is an essay on how ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK and ESCAPE FROM LA remain relevant to this day. Full article here: flaszonfilm.com/2026/02/21/p... #JohnCarpenter #kurtrussell #escapefromnewyork #escapefromla

Getting old is finding YT videos with people reacting to misic from the early 2000s as though they were uncovering government secrets.

I've been thinking about this little aspect of THE HOUSEMAID for a while now. Have a read. Full article here: flaszonfilm.com/2026/02/15/t... #TheHousemaid

Here's an essay on how THEY LIVE and BUGONIA illustrate that it took us just under 40 years to abandon all hope. Full article here: flaszonfilm.com/2026/02/17/b... #theylive #JohnCarpenter #Bugonia #YorgosLanthimos

Here's my take on GOAT, a family-friendly and perfectly predictable underdog sports movie developed to resonate specifically with gen-alpha kids. Full review here: flaszonfilm.com/2026/02/18/g... #GOAT #GOATMovie #sonyanimation

You haven't lived until you tried watching all six seasons of THE DEAD ZONE.

I kinda love cinema in January and February. You call it a dumping ground, I call it a genre banquet.

Is it odd that I feel happy to have seen a movie that I absolutely detested? Because this will be the easiest 1000 words of pouring vitriol on this turd. Yes, I'm this petty. And the movie is MERCY.

Seeing how few people turn up to see MERCY adds to the vast body of evidence that today's stars are nothing without IP to hide behind.

Here are some thoughts about some of the most culturally significant movies of this year. Full article here: flaszonfilm.com/2026/01/14/a... #AvatarMovie #AvatarFireAndAsh #sinners #Sinners2025 #kpopdemonhunters #kpop

Here's a little piece on those Oscar nominations that dropped earlier today. Full article here: flaszonfilm.com/2026/01/22/t... #academyawards #Oscars #Oscars2026

Here's my take on GIANT, a movie that wants to apply archetypal boxing movie templates to a story that required a completely different approach. Full review here: flaszonfilm.com/2026/01/20/g... #giant #giantmovie

Here's a little piece of observational writing about weird social effects stemming from having too much to watch. Full article here: flaszonfilm.com/2026/01/19/p... #streaming #Netflix #DisneyPlus #relationship

Here's my take on THE RIP, a great comfort food for dads that honestly could have been released theatrically, especially in January. Full article here: flaszonfilm.com/2026/01/24/t... #TheRip #benaffleck #MattDamon #JoeCarnahan #Netflix

Here are some words on those comments Matt Damon and Ben Affleck made on that podcast a few days back and why it's not a big deal at all. Full article here: flaszonfilm.com/2026/01/25/m... #Netflix #MattDamon #benaffleck #joerogan

Go and read this. I tried.

Check out my recent piece celebrating HIGHLANDER ON its 40th birthday! flaszonfilm.com/2026/01/27/h...

SAIPAN is a weird one. Kinda refreshing but also feels like a movie made to tell a story not worth telling.

Because STRANGER THINGS has come and claimed this space already, we will likely never see a legacy sequel to THE GOONIES where they all are grown up and scarred by life, titled THE GOONS.

I found out recently that DC Compact Comics existed so I bought one. The smell of a brand-new comic book took me back 30 years. I'm liable to buying them all right now. This is something that digital subscription platforms will never recreate.

Here's my take on AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH, a feature-length in-game cinematic made for a video game that doesn't exist. Full article here: flaszonfilm.com/2025/12/20/a... #AvatarFireAndAsh #AvatarMovie #avatar #JamesCameron

"We don't use generative AI" says the man whose movie already looks as though it was fake.

James Cameron is the type of guy who would insist that motion smoothing on his TV makes everything look better.

Cigarettes used to be popular. Doesn't mean they were good for anyone. What's your point, Jim?

I played Tomoyasu Hotei's BATTLE WITHOUT HONOR OR HUMANITY to my 12yo daughter and she was floored. There is hope.

Is it crazy to think that this whole Venezuela tension is an engineered distraction to refocus the media attention away from the Epstein files? I feel like tin foil hat conspiracist for connecting these dots for real.

What I want now is a KILL BILL spoof where the Bride tracks down Bill to make him pay the hospital expenses for an extensive brain surgery amd 4 years of coma. It's called BILL BILL.

I don't know if the fact that Richard Linklater is working on a movie due to release in 2040 is a sign of faith in his own longevity or the longevity of civilization.

Here's my take on KEEPER, a movie that clearly counts as a "minor" Perkins but still furnishes enough entertainment to win me over. Full review here: flaszonfilm.com/2025/11/20/k... #OsgoodPerkins #keeper #TatianaMaslany #rossifsutherland #horrorreview

Check out my little rant about the demise of serendipity in movie-watching. Full article here: flaszonfilm.com/2025/11/15/o...

Here's my most recent piece on THE RUNNING MAN and how its adaptations struggle with the book's edginess. Full article here: flaszonfilm.com/2025/11/19/t... #TheRunningMan #TheRunningMan2025 #therunningmanmovie #EdgarWright #arnoldschwarzenegger #GlenPowell #stephenking

Rewatching THE TOWN for a podcast is making me want to rewatch HEAT too.

To get the energy Ben Richards had in the book, THE RUNNING MAN needs someone who could approximate Jeremy Renner in THE TOWN. Glen Powell is too likable.

Here's an essay about the place of Art the Clown of the TERRIFIER series in the current cultural landscape and what it says about the future of slashers. Full article here: flaszonfilm.com/2025/11/06/a... #terrifier #arttheclown

Check out my recent article on the point of writing (and doing literally anything creative) when AI can do it better anyway. Full article here: flaszonfilm.com/2025/11/07/w... #AI #Superintelligence #writingcommunity #writing

Check out my recent review of THE LOST BUS directed by Paul Greengrass here: flaszonfilm.com/2025/11/09/t... #TheLostBus #PaulGreengrass #MatthewMcConaughey #AmericaFerrera

I am hereby petitioning Disney to incapacitate Dan Trash-tenberg and take away his toys.

Here's my take on Guillermo Del Toro's FRANKENSTEIN, a performatively Gothic fairy tale that squanders an opportunity to say something about anything and instead indulges in aesthetic pursuits alone. Full article here: flaszonfilm.com/2025/11/12/f... #Frankenstein2025 #netflix #GuillermoDelToro

Nothing - I repeat: nothing - can prepare you to see Russell Crowe doing pushups in a Nazi uniform. And for this reason alone, nothing else, NUREMBERG is worth watching.

I always imagined that I would like Terry Pratchett. Turns out I might not be able to. THE COLOUR OF MAGIC at 270 pages, seems impossible to finish.

I just came here to say that if you are currently looking for work and you feel like banging against the wall of rejection is becoming too much, I'm here with you. You've got this. We've got this. The job market is dire. But we're not giving up, are we?

Here's my take on ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, an incredibly accomplished and eminently watchable masterpiece that could easily end up being the movie of the year. Full review here: flaszonfilm.com/2025/10/21/o... #PaulThomasAnderson #LeonardoDiCaprio #SeanPenn

Here's my take on BLACK PHONE 2, which boldly turns its original conceit into a movie about Freddy Krueger haunting the Overlook and then it falls off the cliff. Full article here: flaszonfilm.com/2025/10/22/b... #BlackPhone2 #ScottDerrickson #EthanHawke #joehill

Here's my recent essay about the rise of "colonified" titles in the mainstream blockbuster market. #Full article here: flaszonfilm.com/2025/10/23/c...

Here's my review of GOOD FORTUNE, which is unfortunately... not good at all. Full review here: flaszonfilm.com/2025/10/26/g... #GoodFortune #KeanuReeves #azizansari #sethrogen

Check out my recent column I wrote apropos of nothing again. Full piece here: flaszonfilm.com/2025/10/25/i...

Here's my take on A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE, a chilling and enormously engrossing thriller from the Queen of Action movies, Kathryn Bigelow herself! Full article here: flaszonfilm.com/2025/10/27/a... #KathrynBigelow #AHouseOfDynamite #Netflix #RebeccaFerguson #IdrisElba