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Revisiting the 95th Academy Awards One Year Later | AJP #15

With the 96th Academy Awards airing tonight (March 10), we thought we’d jump back a year and revisit the 95th edition. After all, it ended up being largely a one-movie... Read More

Panic Room (2002): Fincher Doing His Darndest – A Retrospective

I was twelve years old when I first watched David Fincher’s Panic Room back in 2002, and somehow, I haven’t re-watched it since. To this day, I remember what my... Read More

Basic (2003): Stupidly Complex – A Retrospective

For no particular reason, I’ve been on a John-Travolta-cop film kick of late. Only a few days ago, I watched The General’s Daughter (1999) for the first time, which was... Read More

Interstellar (2014): Paradox Be Damned – A Retrospective

As Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer fast approaches, I wanted to rewatch another of his films, particularly one of a similar scale and ambition. There’s really only one movie that fits that... Read More

Aftersun (2022) Movie Review

As Isaac and I prepared for our Academy Award podcast episode, I decided to check out a few of the acting nominations, with Paul Mescal’s intriguing me the most since... Read More

R.I.P. Tom Sizemore (1961-2023), and Thank You

Without Tom Sizemore, who knows what we would’ve called our podcast, or if we even would’ve done one. Sure, Mann also deserves credit for the line that inspired our podcast’s... Read More

Hard Target Unrated – Jean Woo’s Tour de Force | AJP #12

When action filmmaking legend John Woo finally decided to head to Hollywood, he chose Hard Target (1993) as his first English-language project. Then he was paired with another icon of... Read More

Flight Fights – Air Force One vs Executive Decision | AJP #8

For some reason, Hollywood produced a ton of airplane-set, big-budget action movies in the 90s. Today, we’re comparing the two that are arguably the best, Executive Decision (1996) and Air... Read More

Jockey (2021) Movie Review

Every once in a while, I try to go out of my way to find a movie or TV show starring a well-established character actor in a lead role. In... Read More