It’s a new episode of “A Good Story Well Told” with co-host Jonathan Auxier! We’re still doing our “Shame Shelf” series, and in this episo...

Hey everybody, it’s time for a new episode of A Good Story Well Told . In this episode, Jonathan gets me to finally watch the notorious Dis...

Hi everybody! As you may recall, I’ve launched a new podcast called “A Good Story Well Told” with Jonathan Auxier. We released an intro ep...

Hi everybody! So I have some bad news and some good news. The bad news is that James Kennedy and I have decided to shutter the Secrets ...

Well, folks, we have 7 Shakespeare plays left. They are: The Two Gentlemen of Verona Coriolanus The Life and Death of King John Pericles Mu...

Hey everybody, I made an appearance on Jon Spurling’s incredible “Write in the Head” YouTube Show! I reiterate my long held belief that th...

The Comedy of Errors, first broadcast December 24th, 1983 When was it written: Possibly in 1594, perhaps his fifth play and first comedy. ...

The Tragedy of Macbeth, first broadcast November 5th, 1983 When was it written? Nobody knows. Probably after 1603, because the new King Ja...

Cymbeline, first broadcast July 10th, 1983 When was it written?  Around 1611. Perhaps his 34th play What’s it about?  Cymbeline is an ancien...

Putting this here now feels like a protest against Emilia Perez , but I already had my list drawn up before I saw that one. Nonetheless, it...

Last time they tried to make a Dylan movie, it was called I’m Not There , and indeed he was not. This time they went with a similar title, ...

First of all, let me just say that this movie had many wonderful aspects, but the best aspect of all was the intermission. Every long movie...

We saw this movie when my daughter was away at sleepaway camp, which was silly, because my daughter had just turned 13 a week before, as the...

Mad Max: Fury Road is a great film, but perhaps overpraised. This sequel is not quite as good, and certainly much messier, but it was biza...

The next two movies are both would-be blockbusters that didn’t end up on anybody else’s Top 10 List. I saw this movie with a big fan of the...

I walked into this movie feeling incredibly dubious, especially of Ariana Grande, and it didn’t grab me for the first ten minutes or so, bu...

The primary reason this movie is here is that it made me laugh and cry, which, as I get older, is more and more what I look for in a movie (...

It was embarrassing watching this movie with my wife, but not as embarrassing as it would have been watching it with anyone else! There are...

This is one of those movies where nominating it for Best Picture does it no favors. It’s a fun little twisty election drama, based on an ai...

At the beginning of Emilia Perez , an evil Mexican druglord transitions to female. She is told by her doctor that this transition will als...