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Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -18:36 Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Film Yap is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Discussion about this episode Essential movie reviews, commentary and news from Hoosier film critics. Essential movie reviews, commentary and news from Hoosier film critics. • Caine Gardner and Lucas Gardner

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Choose your preferred format: audio podcast above, or watch the video below! Film Yap is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work please consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. A chance email from a filmmaker to a critic about the Rotten Tomatoes review of his movie led to an interesting conversation about how we watch, talk and think about cinema in 2026.

Film Yap Essential movie reviews, commentary and news from Hoosier film critics. Essential movie reviews, commentary and news from Hoosier film critics.

Film Yap is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work please consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Prior to seeing the latest Jason Statham action vehicle “Mutiny” (now in theaters) I was talking to two of my brewery buddies about the movie. One of them referred to him as Jason Stamos (he’s not Uncle Jesse from “Full House,” the frontman of Jesse and the Rippers nor sometime drummer for the Beach Boys).

Film Yap is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work please consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. I like all of the “Insidious” films to some degree, but don’t love any of them. They’re all three out of five star affairs - no better, no worse. They’re all chockablock with cheap jump scares and often resort to some “Touched by an Angel”/“Ghost Whisperer” melodrama to tug at the heartstrings.

Film Yap is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work please consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. You could say I was a virgin when it came to Jane Schoenbrun’s movies entering “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma” (in select theaters beginning Friday, Aug. 21). I knew the filmmaker more by reputation than by their work itself. A buddy told me he thought I’d hate “We’re All Going to the World’s Fair” despite him really liking it.

Film Yap is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Franz Kafka is one of those Very Important Writers™ we are made to read in high school or college that few people actually seem to relish. (James Joyce shall forever remain their king.) He’s still very studied in academia and revered throughout Europe, and it’s been calculated that for every word he wrote, 10 million have been written about him.

Film Yap is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. I hadn’t heard of Enid Blyton’s “Faraway Tree” series of children’s books — not surprising as they came out between 1939 and 1951 and were more popular in Great Britain than the States. There was a series of BBC shorts back in the 1990s, but after several fits and starts the moviemakers haven’t gotten around to a film adaptation until now.