Why don't movies feel "real" anymore? A deep dive into the first principles of movie immersion: on perceptual realism, indexicality, haptic visuality, and cinematic qualia.
Watch this video o...
2025-11-15 21:39:36 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone! Up next is a video I've been thinking about for quite some time, and it's about why movies look kind of fake/bland now. I know this might not sound like the most original subject, but...
2025-10-28 13:01:04 +0000 UTC View Post
It's 2004, and two men set out on a trip not knowing they were about to create one of the last portraits of a world that was right on the precipice of changing forever.
Watch on Nebula: 2025-10-18 14:01:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Comparing Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men to the Coen Brothers adaptation, which revealed some surprising differences.
Watch on Nebula: 2025-09-30 15:07:43 +0000 UTC View Post
To act in this world is to put yourself in moral peril, to shake the foundations of your own philosophy, sometimes overwhelmingly so. In such times, when you're no longer sure which way is right, w...
2025-09-16 16:17:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/lsoo-when-2-filmmakers-make-the-same-movie
2025-08-28 20:55:53 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, one more detour before I do the monologues video I announced last time; I was taking some notes on David Fincher's Zodiac in contrast to the 2023 movie Boston Strangler, which sort of acciden...
2025-07-31 09:04:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Nebula link: https://nebula.tv/videos/lsoo-the-most-underrated-type-of-villain
2025-07-17 14:52:34 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone! I have a more philosophical video in the works that's a sort of sequel to the "Movie Monologues That Ch...
2025-07-02 15:48:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Hollywood liberalism is ready to save the world, or at least; in their own self-constructed fantasies. In reality though, the tropes that have emerged in these movies are actually precisely those t...
2025-06-28 14:01:09 +0000 UTC View Post
I went to the Cannes Film Festival to see a whole bunch of new movies before anyone else, these were my favorites!
The new hospital show The Pitt is unlike anything I've ever seen, and I realized it's because its story is not structured like a typical hospital show. No, in a wildly inspired move, they structure...
2025-05-07 14:32:54 +0000 UTC View PostUp next is a video on HBO's The Pitt, it will be (mostly) spoiler-free so no worries if you haven't seen the show yet, but I'd highly recommend you to watch it anyways because it might just be my f...
2025-04-24 18:51:56 +0000 UTC View Post
A video about Netflix’ Adolescence, and about 50 other examples of long takes in movies and TV shows; why do there seem to be so many “oners” now? Are they an achievement of prestigious filmm...
2025-04-15 14:42:39 +0000 UTC View Post
The first edition of my monthly film club is here, and because it was my birthday a few days ago, it's freely available for everyone!
If you enjoyed this and want to participate in the monthl...
2025-04-10 14:40:50 +0000 UTC View Post
The Brutalist’s ending doesn’t just tie a neat bow around the structure that emerged over the course of the movie, instead it suddenly excavates the ground beneath it, shakes the foundation, an...
2025-03-20 16:26:21 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone, this month I’m launching an exciting new series exclusively for patrons: Tom’s Film Club. In short, it’s a monthly movie discussion in which all of you get to p...
2025-03-06 15:21:18 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone! I originally announced 3 videos, 2 of which have now been released. The third one, is going to be on hold for a bit; there’s a movie I saw recently that I would like to include in i...
2025-02-24 20:34:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/lsoo-how-gladiator-2-contradicts-itself
2025-02-21 18:14:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/lsoo-why-star-wars-is-stuck-the-jedi-problem
2025-01-30 16:42:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone!
I know this comes belated, but I want to wish you all the best for 2025! I spent New Year’s with my wife’s mother and grandparents who live in the south of France, which is ...
2025-01-23 10:02:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/lsoo-the-10-best-movies-of-2024
2024-12-18 13:58:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/lsoo-the-50-most-lifechanging-movies-ever-made
2024-11-21 21:30:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Last year, my partner almost lost her life, which sent me into this weirdly lucid haze that I've been trying to make sense of ever since. I thought about movies, about the meaning of life and the f...
2024-10-31 14:53:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Nebula link: https://nebula.tv/videos/lsoo-the-apocalyptic-images-that-changed...
2024-09-30 17:21:22 +0000 UTC View PostUp next is one of my most heavily researched projects of the year; an exploration of the impact of apocalytpic imagery on the public imagination - contrasting art after the bubonic plague, with cin...
2024-09-20 16:23:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/lsoo-oppenheimer-one-year-later
2024-08-02 10:49:24 +0000 UTC View PostIt's July, which means that Oppenheimer has been out for a full year, and I figured this would be as good a time as any for my definitive review of the movie; in part because I want to close off my...
2024-07-10 10:13:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/lsoo-the-death-of-cinematic-curiosity
2024-06-30 15:29:47 +0000 UTC View Post
On the dynamics of the treasure hunt movie; a genre that took off for a while but hasn't yet quite found its holy grail
2024-06-19 10:01:13 +0000 UTC View Post