PinnedTim Gruver‘Mommy was in the trees’: The Tube Sock KillingsOn a cold winter’s night in 1985, shoppers find a dazed little girl wandering alone outside a Kmart in Spanaway, Washington. Her name is…Sep 16Sep 16
PinnedTim GruverGodzilla Minus One and the Shadow of FukushimaOr how Takashi Yamazaki’s revamp of the monster movie icon is about two nuclear disasters spanning two centuriesDec 14, 2023Dec 14, 2023
Tim GruverAlex Garland’s“Civil War” has everyone in its sights — including the objective journalistOr how the A24 war flick cuts deep into the costs of “if it bleeds, it leads” newsApr 14Apr 14
Tim GruverThe Flash Review: The ’80s are overThe Justice League’s B team is a big mehJun 4, 2023Jun 4, 2023
Tim GruverFast X review: ‘Chat GPT, write a movie script’Whenever the robots do replace human beings in writer’s rooms, they’ll be hard-pressed to write anything as gloriously stupid as “Fast X.”May 19, 2023May 19, 2023
Tim GruverGlass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery and our Metaverse of MadnessHow director Rian Johnson’s ‘Who dunnit?’ mystery eulogizes the internet’s industrial complex of neverending metahumorNov 26, 2022Nov 26, 2022
Tim GruverBlood Ties and Close Encounters: Nope and the Big Lie of the American WestHow Jordan Peele’s out-of-this-world scares unearth the horror of revisionist historyJul 26, 2022Jul 26, 2022
Tim GruverThor: Love and Thunder is the fan service industrial complex at its worstDirector Taika Waititi’s latest action rom-com is a hot mess. Is it our fault?Jul 10, 2022Jul 10, 2022
Tim Gruver“The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent” and the lie of Nicolas CageOr how the actor and timeless internet meme became a myth to us allApr 9, 20221Apr 9, 20221
Tim GruverThe Batman and the art of class warfareBatman pulls no punches, save for when he’s punching down in his latest epicMar 12, 2022Mar 12, 2022