The Screen Scribe

Review: Marvel Zombies

October 20, 2025

It’s been a long time since the Marvel Cinematic Universe felt dangerous. For years now, we’ve watched familiar faces punch through apocalypses and multiverses with the unspoken understanding that no one truly stays dead. Enter Marvel Zombies, an animated miniseries that finally puts the “dead” back in the deadpan. Gory, unrestrained, and unapologetically bleak, it’s…
Side Notes: How DnD Influenced a Generation of Storytellers

October 17, 2025

Before Hollywood was consumed by cinematic universes, billion-dollar tentpoles, and streaming algorithms, its most influential training ground wasn’t a film school or a studio backlot. It was a table scattered with dice, character sheets, and half-empty cans of Mountain Dew. Dungeons & Dragons, once mocked as the pastime of basement-dwelling eccentrics, has quietly revealed itself…
Recommendation: Ghostbusters

October 15, 2025

Some movies aren’t just hits, they’re cultural lightning strikes. Ghostbusters is one of those rare films that didn’t just dominate its decade but embedded itself into pop culture forever. Released in 1984, it combined comedy, horror, sci-fi, and a dash of the absurd into something fresh and timeless. This Halloween, if you want a film…
Review: 1923 Season 1

October 13, 2025

The Montana frontier in 1923 is no longer a place of uncharted wilderness. It is a crucible where survival demands more than grit. It demands leadership, sacrifice, and the hard choices Jacob and Cara Dutton must make to preserve their family’s legacy. In this prequel to Yellowstone, the weight of history presses down with every…
Side Notes: Post 9/11 Cinematic Tonal Shift

October 13, 2025

Cinema changed on September 12th, 2001. Maybe not visibly at first. Theatres were still full, the box office still ticking, the same posters hanging from the same marquees. But the tone was different. The optimism had a crack in it. The escapism came with an asterisk, and over time, the heroes we cheered for began…
Recommendation: Beetlejuice

October 8, 2025

Some films don’t just flirt with weirdness, they marry it, invite it home, and redecorate the living room in black-and-white stripes. Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice is one of those films. Released in 1988, it’s the kind of gleefully macabre comedy that could only have crawled out of Burton’s imagination, equal parts haunted house, gothic fairytale, and…
Review: House of Guinness

October 6, 2025

Steven Knight has carved out a reputation for turning working-class grit and history into riveting television. With Peaky Blinders, he transformed the streets of Small Heath, Birmingham, into a living, breathing character, every cobblestone dripping with atmosphere and menace. When Netflix announced Knight’s next historical drama, House of Guinness, the parallels were inevitable. Dublin, 1868.…
Side Notes: How Gundam 00 Predicted Modern Geopolitics

October 3, 2025

When Mobile Suit Gundam 00 premiered in 2007, it looked like allegory. Three power blocs, energy monopolies, terrorism, and a private army swooping down from orbit to “end war through war.” At the time, critics called it heavy-handed. A Gundam for the War on Terror generation. But in 2025, 00 doesn’t read as allegory. It…
Recommendation: The Gremlins

October 1, 2025

Before the ‘80s were overrun with slashers in hockey masks and knife-wielding babysitters, Joe Dante’s Gremlins slipped in through the back door to deliver something entirely different: a horror-comedy that’s as mischievous as it is macabre. Released in 1984 and produced by Steven Spielberg, it’s part creature feature, part Christmas movie, and all chaos. And…
Review: Alien – Earth

September 29, 2025

The Alien franchise has always thrived on dread, dark corridors, blinking motion trackers, and the nagging suspicion that humanity’s hubris will be its undoing. So when Noah Hawley brought the series to television with Alien: Earth, expectations were cautious, but optimistic. Could a weekly show capture the suffocating terror of Ridley Scott’s 1979 classic, or…