Darren Mooney
Darren Mooney is a pop culture critic at large for The Escapist. He writes the twice-weekly In the Frame column, writes and voices the In the Frame videos, provides film reviews and writes the weekly Out of Focus column. Plus, occasionally he has opinions about other things as well. Darren lives and works in Dublin, Ireland. He also writes for The Irish Independent, the country’s second largest broadsheet, and provides weekly film coverage for radio station Q102. He co-hosts the weekly 250 podcast and he has also written three published books of criticism on The X-Files, Christopher Nolan and Doctor Who. He somehow finds time to watch movies and television on top of that. Ironically, his superpowers are at their strongest when his glasses are on.

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Read Article American Gigolo, Fatal Attraction, and the Problem with the Revived Erotic Thriller
The 80s 90s erotic thriller movie genre like Basic Instinct is being revived, but it comes with new problems in remakes like American Gigolo & Fatal Attraction.
Read Article Our Most Anticipated Movies of Summer 2023 – The Recap
The Recap podcast: Marty Sliva, Frost, and Darren Mooney discuss the big movies they are looking forward to in summer 2023.
Read Article Citadel Isn’t a Show, It’s a Brand
The Amazon spy series Citadel, executive produced by the Russo Brothers, comes prepackaged as a franchise in search of substance of any kind. Mason Kane (Richard Madden) and Nadia Sinh (Priyanka Chopra Jonas)
Read Article Scream VI Lacks the Franchise’s Killer Instincts
Scream VI Lacks the Franchise Killer Instincts instincts too afraid to kill any important character with sequel potential for Scream 7 and beyond
Read Article The Third Season of Star Trek: Picard Turned Its Back on the Future
Star Trek: Picard season 3 indulged in the most incestuous forms of fan service to tell an insular story of old people who preempt a future.
Read Article Apocalypse Now Isn’t Just a Western, It’s the Most Western
Apocalypse Now Is Not Just a Western, It Is the Most Western - the end of the West expansion from Francis Ford Coppola and John Milius, Vietnam War as a California surfing party
Read Article The Superhero Movie Has Lost Its Humanity
The Superhero Movie Has Lost Its Humanity Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania MCU Luis Spider-Man 2 Mr. Ditkovich The Dark Knight Gordon
Read Article The Monstrous Appetites of Dead Ringers
Dead Ringers Amazon Prime remake about motherhood inhumanity of unnatural child birth and consumption Rachel Weisz
Read Article The New and Improved True Crime
True crime podcasts, TV series, and documentaries are everywhere, often exploitative like Dahmer, but some like Mindhunter, Lost Girls, Zodiac, and Just Mercy are working to solve the problem.
Read Article Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home Crashed 1960s Icons into 1980s America
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home Crashed 1960s Icons Into 1980s America, counterculture ideals and utopianism versus commercialism, yuppies yippies