Films of Steele

  When a piece of media really gets to me, I’m exploding with ideas before it’s finished. Inspiration strikes alongside what I’m seeing, hea...

  My family used to have a running gag about 2006’s Firewall . As legend had it, a good friend teared up at the end of that mediocre digital...

  Since reserving my tickets one month ago for the first showing of Materialists , I’ve been managing my expectations. Celine Song’s cinemat...

Originally published in Wildcat Weekly on May 23, 2025 For a more thorough response to  Past Lives , read "See You Then" from Int...

Originally published in Wildcat Weekly on May 16, 2025 It’s for extra-textual reasons that the poster for Disney’s Tangled hangs in the bac...

Originally published in Wildcat Weekly on May 9, 2025 I first watched Your Name on a bootleg anime website. “Don’t click on any banners,” t...