How do you breathe new life into a franchise seven movies deep? By giving the penultimate installment over to Death.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 is bookended by it, opening with Charity Burbage's echo of "Severus, please" and closing with Dobby's utterance of "Harry Potter". Yet no other speaking character dies on screen in the time between those moments; instead of immature attempts at shock by ruthlessly killing characters off, there's only the examination of the losses…

When I ed Letterboxd, I was excellent about having my thoughts on the thing I watched posted within hours or days of having watched the thing. But as I watched more and wrote more, I often had more to say more of the time. Some reviews kept me up close to dawn to get everything in my head onto the page (or keyboard/screen/whatever), a phenomenon that began around February and March 2022: I specifically already having gotten home after…

YOOOOOOO! I'M THE ONE WHO GOT THIS ON HERE!

LETTERBOXD NEVER REPLIED TO MY EMAIL BUT THEY REPLIED TO MY HEART <3

(Seriously the earliest activity goes back to a few days/weeks after I sent them THIS EMAIL asking them to add this! SOMETHING ABOUT AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. IS ON LETTERBOXD AND I HELPED MAKE THAT HAPPEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

With this addition, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. has ed The Ultimate MCU Watch Guide!

The above was written before I'd even watched the series,…

Everything Everywhere All at Once shrugs off the bounds imposed by containing a story to one universe, and while it's at it, barely falls short of inventing a new visual component of the filmmaking repertoire; yet even with all the multiversal exuberance on display, the film never strays from the familial relationships that underlie the fantastical conflict. So charged are they with an absurd range of sentiment that they effortlessly carry our investment into every universe we discover.

My goodness,…