‘Girls Trip’ Review: A Celebratory Carnival of Nasty
'Girls Trip is nasty, but the good kind of nasty. Read More...
Jacob Oller
‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’ Re-Released, Novelized, and More: 80 Years and Counting
Disney's first feature turns eighty (well, sort of) while its novelization turns thirty. Read More...
Netflix’s Castlevania Evokes Classics In Its R-Rated Animation
Struggles of class and religion add depth to the video game adaptation’s vampiric death. Read More...
7 Times Movies Urged Us to Be Careful What We Wish For
The golden rule of cinema: never trust a genie. Read More...
‘Okja’ Made My Carnivore Girlfriend Go Vegetarian
The Netflix hit is a great movie and even better activism. Read More...
6 Films Celebrating the American (It Was All A) Dream
Americans love their hopeful mantra, while movies love to undermine it with somnolent reveals. Read More...
The Super Supporters of ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’
Spider-Man and the Vulture would be nothing without the city around them. Or the cast that brings their new movie to life. Read More...
‘Hercules’ Reinvented the Greek Hero 20 Years Ago
The underrated Disney movie's script stays fresh and strange two decades later. Read More...
The Unapologetic Coolness of ‘Baby Driver’ and Car Karaoke
Vehicular singing continues a great tradition of human/machine interaction. Read More...
‘Oh, Hello’ and the Netflix Comedy Bubble
The streaming giant aims to monopolize all forms of stage comedy, for good or ill.
The specificity (that some deem marvelous) of John Mulaney and Nick Kroll’s Read More...
Jacob Oller
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Jacob Oller writes everywhere (Vanity Fair, The Guardian, Playboy, FSR, Paste, etc.) about everything that matters (film, TV, video games, memes, life).