The Screen Scribe

Recommendation: Tears of the Sun

November 12, 2025

When it comes to military films, some aim for spectacle, others for grit. Tears of the Sun, directed by Antoine Fuqua and released in 2003, falls firmly into the latter camp. It’s not the loudest war film, nor the most decorated, but it is one of the most emotionally charged explorations of duty and sacrifice…
Review: The Witcher Season 4

November 10, 2025

Every so often, a show stumbles so hard it forgets what made it special. The Witcher Season 4 doesn’t stumble, it face-plants into a swamp of its own making. Somewhere beneath the rubble of awkward dialogue, cheap design, and bewildering storytelling lies the skeleton of what was once a beloved fantasy epic. But that corpse…
Side Notes: Why Does Modern Hollywood Hate Heroic Men

November 10, 2025

There is a quiet truth sitting beneath modern Hollywood storytelling, one that nobody wants to say out loud for fear of social media crucifixion. But here it is. Hollywood seems to hate heroic men. Not men as villains, not men as comedic foils or hapless sidekicks, but men as noble, aspirational heroes. The stoic leader.…
Recommendation: Black Hawk Down

November 10, 2025

Few films capture the chaos of modern combat quite like Ridley Scott’s Black Hawk Down. Released in 2001 and based on the real events of the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu, it is an unflinching portrayal of what happens when a seemingly straightforward mission collapses into a brutal urban firefight. This isn’t a glossy war epic…
Review: Gen V Season 2

November 3, 2025

The world of The Boys has never been subtle. Blood, bile, and branding have always been its lingua franca. Gen V arrived as its clever younger sibling, fresher, funnier, and every bit as ruthless, a warped mirror of campus idealism. Season 2 keeps that swagger, but somewhere between the dissection and the detonation, the edge…
Side Notes: The Death of the Witcher

October 31, 2025

Once upon a time, Netflix stood on the edge of the Continent with a sword in one hand and destiny in the other. They had Andrzej Sapkowski’s books, a legion of gamers still intoxicated from CD Projekt Red’s The Witcher 3, and the dream casting of Henry Cavill as Geralt of Rivia. It was their…
Recommendation: Hocus Pocus

October 29, 2025

Some films take a while to find their audience, like spells that need time to simmer. Hocus Pocus was released in 1993 to lukewarm reviews and a box office that hardly screamed “classic.” Yet over the decades, it has risen like a broomstick at midnight to become a Halloween favourite, especially for families and nostalgic…
Review: Springsteen – Deliver Me From Nowhere

October 27, 2025

Music biopics tend to follow a familiar rhythm: fame, excess, breakdown, redemption. They’re the cinematic equivalent of a greatest hits album, predictable, polished, and safe. So when I sat down for Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, I was braced for another weary slog through tortured-genius territory. But to my surprise, this one plays a different…
Side Notes: Kevin Conroy – The True Batman of a Generation

October 24, 2025

There’s a sound every Batman fan knows. Not the flutter of wings in a cave, not the roar of the Batmobile’s engine, but a voice. Deep, resonant, measured. A voice that could embody rage in one breath and compassion in the next. For an entire generation, that voice was Batman. Not Michael Keaton’s whisper, not…
Recommendation: Paranormal Activity

October 22, 2025

Every so often, a horror film comes along that doesn’t just scare audiences, it rewrites the rulebook. In 2007, that film was Paranormal Activity. Made for just $15,000 and shot almost entirely in one house, it proved you don’t need lavish sets, big stars, or gallons of gore to terrify. Sometimes, all it takes is…