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Widow’s Bay Show Ending Explained In Detail

Taylor Holmes — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 14:34:43 +0000

I’m going to say this up front because I don’t say it often. Widow’s Bay was fun, it was genuinely funny, and it was thrilling in a way that snuck up on me, because I went in expecting a straightforward thriller of a TV show and instead, I got something a lot weirder and a lot more alive than that. I can completely see why this thing is getting as hyped as it is. Widow’s Bay doesn’t look or feel […]

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The Social Reckoning Is Perfectly Written and Perfectly Late

Taylor Holmes — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 04:14:14 +0000

I need to tell you up front that I am an enormous, unapologetic Aaron Sorkin fan. I’ve watched West Wing beginning to end three or four times. Moneyball is magic. Molly’s Game is criminally underrated. Chicago 7 is just brilliantly written, start to finish. And The Social Network, the first one, is about as close to a perfect movie as exists. Screenplay, acting, score, all of it. So when I tell you that The Social Reckoning did not work for […]

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Was The Movie The Weight Historically Accurate

Taylor Holmes — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 13:33:11 +0000

Was The Movie The Weight Historically Accurate. Okay so I need to talk about The Weight because I went into it wanting a historical action movie in the vein of Lawless or The Untouchables and came out having gotten exactly that, just filtered through a completely different lense. BUT WAS IT ACCURATE? There were so many important historical details that needed to come together in order to make this plot even necessary!! But, were they on point? Secondly, was the […]

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Full Metal Jacket IMDB Top 250 Challenge

Taylor Holmes — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 05:59:52 +0000

This is film two of the IMDB Top 250 Challenge, where I let a cryptographically secure random number generator dictate my watch order through all 250 films on the IMDB Top 250 Films list and write up each one as they come. If you missed film one, we opened with Andrei Rublev, so believe me when I say the tonal whiplash of going from a three hour Soviet meditation on faith to Stanley Kubrick’s Vietnam is not lost on me. […]

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The Death of Robin Hood Is the Anti-Robin Hood Film We Needed

Taylor Holmes — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 13:37:37 +0000

I mean – come on. We need more movies that are completely off the beaten path. More movies that pole-axe you in the middle of your face and catch you completely off guard. We need more movies like The Death of Robin Hood. And yeah, I understand that this film was not wildly hailed or proclaimed as being anything other than a dreary and violent slog. But I really enjoyed this slog. I enjoyed the muck, and the darkness of […]

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Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man Full Spoiler Walkthrough

Taylor Holmes — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 05:13:23 +0000

First, I have to say, that this movie is a fitting end to the man, the myth and the legend that is Tommy Shelby. Peaky Blinders is one of my favorite television series of all time (probably only bested by my obsession with the German show Dark). Peaky Blinders is so full of texture, anti-heroes, and real villains, that the show always keeps you guessing as to where it’s going to go. But better than that? Is the glorious cinematography, […]

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Spoiler Free – Catch Up With Peaky Blinders Before You Watch the Movie

Taylor Holmes — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 23:01:25 +0000

I literally just walked out of the Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man movie in the theaters and I decided I wish I had remembered a few things of how the show, and specifically, season 6 went, so I could have been more clear on the movie as it started. So I decided I’d pull together a quick primer on the details that are most important going into the film… both to remind myself what the hell was going on with […]

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Queen of Chess: Why You Need to Watch Netflix’s Documentary

Taylor Holmes — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 04:05:28 +0000

Look, I’ve been waiting for this documentary since The Queen’s Gambit dropped in 2020 and got everyone suddenly obsessed with chess. Back then, I wrote about how Beth Harmon’s fictional story was glorious, and I made sure to mention the real-life player who actually lived a version of that impossible dream: Judit Polgár. Now Netflix has released Queen of Chess, directed by Rory Kennedy, and after watching all 94 minutes, I can tell you this: if you loved The Queen’s […]

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The Transcendent Beauty of Train Dreams: A Meditation on an Ordinary Life

Taylor Holmes — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 00:13:36 +0000

Look. I’m not your average movie reviewer. I don’t care how others view movies and I definitely am not swayed by popular films in Hollywood (the current best example is One Battle After Another… I just did not get that movie at all.) At the end of the day, I just want to feel something when watching a movie. And Train Dreams has emotions and depth to it in spades. Clint Bentley’s Train Dreams belongs to this rarest of categories—a […]

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