02/10/2026
New essay: Eddington — Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal in Ari Aster’s pandemic-era psychological Western. We dive into why the film was written off as a “flop,” how that judgment reflects bigger industry anxieties, and what it says about the decline of the movie theatre experience. Read the full piece: https://wix.to/Z1V4MRL
“No one wants to see a movie about the pandemic.”That’s the kind of focus-group revelation that ricocheted around Hollywood boardrooms, first murmured by underlings vying to appear the Nostradamus, then parroted with confidence by executives who dual-screened Eddington while bargain shopping a...
