S. Brady Calhoun
@sbradycalhoun.bsky.social
Writer. Adarkhighway.com
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Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
Review of Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery.
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November 30, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Five stars with an asterisk. adarkhighway.com/2025/11/01/s...
Springsteen Deliver me from Nowhere
Springsteen Deliver Me from Nowhere is not a movie for everyone. I read the book and it is a slog. And before I even watched this thing I had my argument all worked out. That it is Michael Ma…
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November 8, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Five stars with an asterisk. adarkhighway.com/2025/11/01/s...
It never blows the doors off. But it’s fun to watch a mostly faithful adaptation. adarkhighway.com/2025/10/28/f...
Frankenstein
Gather round children and I shall tell you of the before times. For you see we also did not do our homework. But with no Chat GPT to guide us we were forced to cheat in other ways. Some purch…
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October 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
It never blows the doors off. But it’s fun to watch a mostly faithful adaptation. adarkhighway.com/2025/10/28/f...
My wife who listens to murder podcasts for fun: “It’s always Sunny in Philadelphia is too dark for me.”
October 16, 2025 at 5:31 PM
My wife who listens to murder podcasts for fun: “It’s always Sunny in Philadelphia is too dark for me.”
I want the James Gunn DC verse to make a Jonah Hex movie cause I want to hear that guy’s country music playlist. … I am also terrified it will just be Bon Jovi’s Wanted Dead or Alive on repeat.
October 15, 2025 at 1:48 AM
I want the James Gunn DC verse to make a Jonah Hex movie cause I want to hear that guy’s country music playlist. … I am also terrified it will just be Bon Jovi’s Wanted Dead or Alive on repeat.
We now have a new dumber penalty than the shoe incident. 🐊
September 6, 2025 at 11:46 PM
We now have a new dumber penalty than the shoe incident. 🐊
This has become a political hot topic because of (checks notes) a jeans add. But the movie itself is pretty good. You should check it out for yourself before rendering any judgements. adarkhighway.com/2025/08/19/a...
Americana
I think this is one of the great films of the year. Writer/Director Tony Tost takes a stab at writing about all the things he clearly loves, country and western music, crime thrillers, social…
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August 19, 2025 at 3:44 PM
This has become a political hot topic because of (checks notes) a jeans add. But the movie itself is pretty good. You should check it out for yourself before rendering any judgements. adarkhighway.com/2025/08/19/a...
No the first hour of Highest 2 Lowest does not have problems. People have just forgotten how stories work. adarkhighway.com/2025/08/18/h...
Highest 2 Lowest
Clearly, The New York tourism board should just fund every Spike Lee movie. Lee’s Big Apple is a beautiful, impossible, fantasy. The city is his greatest love and I’m sorry to anyone else in …
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August 19, 2025 at 11:28 AM
No the first hour of Highest 2 Lowest does not have problems. People have just forgotten how stories work. adarkhighway.com/2025/08/18/h...
“Charlie my father gave this to me and his father gave it to him and now I’m giving it to you.” … and then I just have a big ugly cry.
August 19, 2025 at 1:12 AM
“Charlie my father gave this to me and his father gave it to him and now I’m giving it to you.” … and then I just have a big ugly cry.
The Thicket is a strong drink of that Western whiskey. It mostly satisfies. adarkhighway.com/2025/08/13/t...
The Thicket
I was a young teenager when Jonah Hex: Two Gun Mojo, showed up on comic book shelves. I was a voracious reader but here was something completely unlike anything I had ever encountered. J…
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August 13, 2025 at 3:21 PM
The Thicket is a strong drink of that Western whiskey. It mostly satisfies. adarkhighway.com/2025/08/13/t...
Mel Brooks, as always, completely nails it. “Even in the future nothing works.”
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Alien: Romulus
If they had hired a real actor to play Ian Holm’s character this would have been a solid Alien entry. Doing it with CGI brings nothing to the table. If someone was making Godfather 2 today th…
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August 12, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Mel Brooks, as always, completely nails it. “Even in the future nothing works.”
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No movie this year will have people singing the movie’s theme song like they do in New Jack City and that makes me sad.
August 4, 2025 at 2:52 PM
No movie this year will have people singing the movie’s theme song like they do in New Jack City and that makes me sad.
Hypno glasses are not the only way writers tried to explain Superman only needing glasses for his Clark Kent secret identity. I think John Byrne explained that Superman always moved his face at super speed so people never got a good look at him. Any others writer attempts at this?
July 24, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Hypno glasses are not the only way writers tried to explain Superman only needing glasses for his Clark Kent secret identity. I think John Byrne explained that Superman always moved his face at super speed so people never got a good look at him. Any others writer attempts at this?
Look, I am a simple guy, and a Q episode of Strange New Worlds is all I want out of life. Yes, sometimes I want high minded science fiction that reflects society’s problems and offers hope or criticism. And sometimes I just want Rhys Darby in a funny coat as an all powerful wedding planner.
July 21, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Look, I am a simple guy, and a Q episode of Strange New Worlds is all I want out of life. Yes, sometimes I want high minded science fiction that reflects society’s problems and offers hope or criticism. And sometimes I just want Rhys Darby in a funny coat as an all powerful wedding planner.
It is always possible that I am too much of a dim bulb to get it. But if you also had problems with this flick you might find some comfort with my review: adarkhighway.com/2025/07/17/m...
Mulholland Drive
I think there are three ways to look at this film. The first is that it is a masterpiece. Certainly that’s what the majority of critics and other creatives think about it. the New York Times ranked…
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July 17, 2025 at 7:31 PM
It is always possible that I am too much of a dim bulb to get it. But if you also had problems with this flick you might find some comfort with my review: adarkhighway.com/2025/07/17/m...
I hate spending time with these people … but they did make me laugh. adarkhighway.com/2025/07/16/m...
Mountainhead
The thing about Jesse Armstrong is that he is very interested in the worst people in the world. The problem with that is that in order to watch his movie, Mountainhead, or his show Succession…
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July 16, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I hate spending time with these people … but they did make me laugh. adarkhighway.com/2025/07/16/m...
Hearing from my normie non comic book reading friends. They love Superman. adarkhighway.com/2025/07/11/s...
Superman
James Gunn’s vision of Superman is a guy who is constantly knocked around but keeps getting back up. It never slows down and never quite hits the points it wants to make because it won’t slow down …
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July 13, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Hearing from my normie non comic book reading friends. They love Superman. adarkhighway.com/2025/07/11/s...
Surprise! The guy who really likes Superman comics really liked the movie that was faithful to the Superman comics. adarkhighway.com/2025/07/11/s...
Superman
James Gunn’s vision of Superman is a guy who is constantly knocked around but keeps getting back up. It never slows down and never quite hits the points it wants to make because it won’t slow down …
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July 12, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Surprise! The guy who really likes Superman comics really liked the movie that was faithful to the Superman comics. adarkhighway.com/2025/07/11/s...
My mom once noted that everyone else in Hawaii wore pants but Tom Selleck always wore short shorts in Magnum PI. I noticed something similar about how Brad Pitt in this flick. adarkhighway.com/2025/07/09/f...
F1 The Movie
Brad Pitt plays a former F1 driver whose entire life is a washout and now lives in a van and goes from town to town trying to win various types of races. It’s not about the money, he says whe…
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July 9, 2025 at 10:54 PM
My mom once noted that everyone else in Hawaii wore pants but Tom Selleck always wore short shorts in Magnum PI. I noticed something similar about how Brad Pitt in this flick. adarkhighway.com/2025/07/09/f...
Of course, looking at the professional ballots I don’t think most people were choosing based on what the most “important” films were. Most of them strike me as here are 10 films I really like. Probably as it should be. And it’s gonna be a lot of fun to go through the ones I have not yet seen.
June 27, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Of course, looking at the professional ballots I don’t think most people were choosing based on what the most “important” films were. Most of them strike me as here are 10 films I really like. Probably as it should be. And it’s gonna be a lot of fun to go through the ones I have not yet seen.
It always depends on how you are grading these things but for the record the greatest comic book superhero film of this century is Spider-man 2. Closely followed by Guardians and the Avengers. Dark Knight is 4 or 5.
June 27, 2025 at 7:24 PM
It always depends on how you are grading these things but for the record the greatest comic book superhero film of this century is Spider-man 2. Closely followed by Guardians and the Avengers. Dark Knight is 4 or 5.
Mullholland Dr, YIYI and Before Sunset are priorities. The rest I’ll get to someday. Ain’t movies grand.
June 27, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Mullholland Dr, YIYI and Before Sunset are priorities. The rest I’ll get to someday. Ain’t movies grand.
I’ve seen 69 of them. Feel free to make your jokes below.
June 27, 2025 at 1:46 PM
I’ve seen 69 of them. Feel free to make your jokes below.
I don’t know what’s going on in 2025 but somehow we have ended up in a place where the two best movies of the year are about zombies and vampires. adarkhighway.com/2025/06/25/2...
28 Years Later
I’m sure in my excitement I will just spoil this so pre-spoilers just know that is one of the best movies of the year. It’s certainly a horror movie but it also transcends the genre (or does …
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June 25, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I don’t know what’s going on in 2025 but somehow we have ended up in a place where the two best movies of the year are about zombies and vampires. adarkhighway.com/2025/06/25/2...
Isn’t it grand to reconnect with an old love and find that she is as wonderful as you remember? adarkhighway.com/2025/06/23/2...
28 Days Later
This is a movie that has the goods, and knows it has the goods almost from the start. Confidence means an awful lot in a horror flick. Not so much in the actual start of the film which …
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June 23, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Isn’t it grand to reconnect with an old love and find that she is as wonderful as you remember? adarkhighway.com/2025/06/23/2...