Movie Reviews
Film and television reviewed the way I’d want to read them — with a rating that means something, an honest accounting of what works and what doesn’t, and craft notes for writers who want to understand how the machinery operates.
Each review includes a craft notes section for writers — specific observations about structure, character, world-building, and what the film does that you can actually use. Not theory. Technique you can steal.
J-Horror (3)
May 19, 2026Audition (1999)
Takashi Miike directs the story of a widower staging fake auditions to find a new wife, with consequences he could not anticipate.
May 19, 2026Ju-On: The Grudge (2002)
Takashi Shimizu's haunted house horror where a curse spreads from anyone who enters a Tokyo home where a murder occurred.
May 19, 2026Ringu (1998)
Hideo Nakata directs the Japanese supernatural horror about a cursed videotape that kills viewers seven days after watching.