
Apocalypse? Now?
Maybe it’s time to end the age of the anti-hero.

A Fox, A Hound, and A Magpie
I think I fell in love with Newcastle United … in Frankfurt.

‘The Brutalist’ is too big to fail.
Brady Corbet’s monster of a film ends up eating itself alive.

Lately at the Movies
Winter is for stumbling into theatres and keeping your jacket on. I saw Queer and A Different Man.

This Week in Fandom: Riding the Hot Hand
A time-out for the NBA, happy holidays for the NFL, and other gut feelings.

This Week in Fandom: Heeding the Call
Spurs poop the bed, again, and Juan Soto chooses the Mets.

Another Year, Another Wrapped
Mirror, Mirror, on the wall/ Who’s the streamiest of them all?

This Week in Fandom: It’s 3am on the U-Bahn
I watched sports in weird places, and wished there was tanking in the Premier League.

End Games
Industry’s third season accurately predicts an ugly and desperate world.

This Week in Fandom: Save Me, Drake Maye.
The sensational Drake Maye, the Knicks in theory, and the defensive perils of Ange-Ball.

Lesser Evils
Fans and cynics alike deserve better than Folie à Deux.

How ‘bout them … Considerations
Why I (ahem) very briefly considered rooting for the Cowboys, this season and beyond.

Brotherhood
On loving Jude Bellingham, hating super-clubs, and rooting for the Three Lions again.

The pick is in!
I finally did it, ma! I reverse-drafted myself an NFL allegiance.

Tennis will tear us apart
On loving and hating Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers.

It’s for you, Mr. Sterling.
This week in Yankee baseball: a fond farewell to one of the great play-callers in the game.

Plot is for Boomers, & other stories.
To the colleague that declared ‘La Chimera’ the cinema event of the year.

This week in (ahhh) Cubs Baseball
Wrigley here I come.

On ‘Dream Scenario’, A24, and difficult movies
Nicholas Cage does what he can, and that’s always plenty, under the circumstances.

This Week in Yankee Baseball
Juan Soto, Opening Day, and victory once more over the pagan Astros.
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