Now that Skywalker has risen, and the saga is complete, I can finally do this Little Man take on Star Wars. Here we go! What’s The Little Man? I’ll let Roger Ebert explain, but the short version is that it’s a way to rate movies not with

Hey, have y’all heard of this FAST AND THE FURIOUS franchise thing? It’s a little obscure, I know, but a couple years ago I watched them all, and now that I have a friend doing their own binge, I figured it was time to bring the Little Man

Hey, look, I love the Marvel Cinematic Universe. I want to talk about why, because there are things about how the MCU has built itself that I’d love to see other franchises learn and execute, but today isn’t that day. As new films have come out, I’ve

The first time I saw the Coen brothers’ The Big Lebowski, I came out of the theater uneasy. It was funny, sure, but just when it looked like the plot was going to come together, the air went out of everything. There was no kidnapping. The protagonists neither saved anyone,

For those who’ve mercifully been spared by ramblings on Twitter, let me make a clearing: Gundam is the best franchise on planet Earth. I can’t promise you’d like it — anime is rather specific mode of art, and Gundam’s brand of giant mecha soap opera is a

For six weeks, I lived on the Island. I watched the crash of Oceanic 815, and followed the survivors as they struggled to understand their situation. I saw mysteries unfold before them. I experienced the tragedies in their pasts, and feared for the ones yet to come. When you binge-watch