Movie Reviews
'Scream 7' Is a Moral and Artistic Failure
Even at their worst, the Scream films have always at least tried to inject interesting ideas about fandom and horror culture into their storylines. That trend comes to an end with Scream 7.
David Chen
I’ve been reviewing movies and TV on the internet since 2007. I've worked as a marketer at Microsoft and Amazon. My podcasts have been featured or mentioned in online publications such as NPR, Vox Media, and Vulture. I live and work in Seattle.
Commentary
Observations from Watching This Year's Super Bowl
David Chen shares a few observations from this year's Super Bowl broadcast.
We Watched 26 Films from Sundance 2026. Here Are Our 6 Favorites.
David Chen and Stephen David Miller share some highlights from the online portion of the Sundance Film Festival
Six Reactions to the 2026 Academy Award Nominations
The 98th annual Academy Award nominations were announced this morning at the Academy’s headquarters in Beverly Hills, CA. Overall, a great list of films was recognized, with shockingly few baffling decisions or outrages. Below are some of my reactions to the nominations, followed by the full list. Feel free
Movie Reviews
In '28 Years Later: The Bone Temple,' We Are All We Have
I wasn't a huge fan of 28 Years Later, Danny Boyle and Alec Garland's 2025 follow-up to their 2002 horror classic 28 Days Later. But I've now seen 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, and I'm pleased to say, this film rips.
David Chen's Top 10 Films of 2025
There's a moment at the beginning of Jay Kelly in which George Clooney's titular character wistfully says, "I got to see the end before it ended." Clooney isn't talking about the movie industry specifically in that moment but I can't
Humanity Is Doomed (Based on the Movies I've Seen Lately)
Today, a few thoughts on Yorgos Lanthimos' Bugonia (in theaters now) and Kathryn Bigelow's House of Dynamite (on Netflix). In Bugonia, Jesse Plemons plays Teddy, a down-on-his-luck warehouse worker who becomes convinced that he's uncovered an intergalactic conspiracy against planet Earth. Teddy believes that an
This Feels Like the End of Something
For many years, I dreamed of moving to Los Angeles. It was always a logical endpoint for me. I'm very into movies, after all – how they're made, how they're marketed, how they're talked about afterwards. Why not move to the place that&