Having a retrapse this week. I feel like we are at a place where we are so used to an overabundance of irony in media, that people are so quick to disregard something like Trap that is so absurdly sincere and sincerely absurd.

Why does a movie have to wink at its audience and give them permission in order for them to not take everything so literally? Why can’t the reality of the film solely run on emotions and expressions? It’s…

I consider myself a student of the art of hater characters in cinema. There is nothing like a quality hater, written and performed with such earnest and seemingly limitless pettiness. It has been my firm belief since my youth that the greatest hater character in all of cinema is Eddie Brock in Spider-Man 3, played by Topher Grace. A generational hater, one who is told to get religion if he wants forgiveness and then proceeds to take that advice and…