For around 15 years I was staff at Uproxx, HuffPost and Movieline. I’ve written for a lot of places like Vanity Fair, New York, GQ, Wired, and Empire. I now own a newsletter.
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Every now and then, the 2011 Green Lantern movie pops up on cable and I watch some of it thinking, well, how bad could it have been? I wouldn’t call it “unwatchable,” but I certainly can’t watch it. Just everything is wrong, starting with Ryan Reynolds' jovial,
Admittedly, it’s pretty exciting to watch a movie I thought I’d never get a chance to see. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, Coyote vs. Acme was filmed back in 2022, then Warner Bros. decided not to release the film. Now, that doesn’t
In 2023 I went to the New York City premiere of Air, the Ben Affleck directed film about the creation of the Air Jordan shoe. It was held at Warner Bros. NYC offices at Hudson Yards, a somewhat muted affair for a movie starring Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. But
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The Hard Pass turned six months old this week. In celebration, I commissioned some stickers with a logo that I spent way too long learning how to make. My goal was I wanted it to look "pleasant." Which, for me, is something that would be on an overpriced
A big reason I started The Hard Pass six months ago this week was so I could write about Star Wars anytime I had an idea about Star Wars. My favorite pieces to write about Star Wars aren't dissections of the franchise, or where things went wrong, or
Vincent Pastore's death this past weekend¹ reminded me of a story that happened, as it turns out, 20 years ago this month. I was sitting at a bar called Gaslight Lounge in Greenwich Village. It was 2:15 a.m. on a Monday morning. I had two friends
First, yes, this is a real thing that happened and not some vague metaphor. Second, I am as shocked as anyone. Third, as I allude to in my title, I think Kevin Feige may be right. This past weekend at San Diego Comic-Con, Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige was
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It's kind of nuts Tom Holland that has now been playing Spider-Man for a full decade, making his debut way back in Captain America: Civil War. For the first time, over seven movies, we've watched a cinematic Peter transform before our eyes from a high
I always feel I do a bad job at relaying how bizarre this entire encounter with Larry King actually was when I tell people about it — which isn’t just one of the nuttiest things I’ve ever experienced during San Diego Comic-Con, but one of the nuttiest things
Philip Seymour Hoffman would have turned 59 this week, on July 23rd. It actually makes no sense whatsoever he's now been gone for over 12 years. A lot of this probably has to do with how timeless a lot of his movies are and that a great number
When no one knew what Christopher Nolan's next movie would be after Oppenheimer (which, of course, became The Odyssey), one of the strangest rumors was that Nolan was going to remake the 1983 John Badham film, Blue Thunder. Now, I happen to love Blue Thunder. (So much, in
Talking to a famous actor or filmmaker at a premiere or event party is, usually, a terrible experience. Here are a couple of examples. There was an event for John Wick 2 around the time New York Comic Con was happening. A publicist I like asked me to stop by.