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 countryā€™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 James Cameron Was Never Cool: That’s Why He’s Great
James Cameron Was Never Cool, That Is Why He's Great - In the Frame Darren Mooney Avatar: The Way of Water Terminator 2 Aliens family corny filmmaking
Read Article ‘Beyond the Shattered Sea’ Finds Willow Drifting Listlessly
Willow episode 7 review Beyond the Shattered Sea boring narrative checklist poor pacing for the fantasy finale at Lucasfilm Disney+
Read Article In Season 2, the Biggest Problem with The Bad Batch Is… the Bad Batch
Star Wars: The Bad Batch season 2 review Disney+ gorgeous animated TV and compelling themes about veterans hindered by boring heroes
Read Article Kaleidoscope Is a Modest Streaming Experiment
Kaleidoscope on Netflix from Eric Garcia with Giancarlo Esposito is a modest streaming experiment, more interesting in concept than in execution, but decent.
Read Article In 2022, Movies Celebrated and Dreaded Spectacle
2022 film theme - Movies Celebrated and Dreaded Spectacle - Top Gun: Maverick Avatar: The Way of Water RRR Nope Elvis Babylon old-fashioned box office success
Read Article White Noise Is About the Human Death Drive
NetflixMovie adaptation White Noise Is About the Human Death Drive from director Noah Baumbach and actor Adam Driver
Read Article What Debates About the ‘Faithfulness’ of Blood Origin & The Rings of Power Miss
adaptation faithfulness debate of The Witcher: Blood Origin and The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power misses the point - quality of movie or tv show is all that matters
Read Article In ‘Prisoners of Skellin,’ Willow Has a Little Chaotic Magic
Willow episode 6 review Prisoners of Skellin Disney+ TV show improvement over Wildwood
Read Article Eternals Is an Anti-Superhero Epic
ChloƩ Zhao Eternals is an anti-superhero epic, a critical look at superheroes superpowers and whether to protect people or preserve the status quo in the MCU (using DC Justice League archetypes)
Read Article Blood Origin Demonstrates the Danger of Thinking of TV as a Six-Hour Movie
The Witcher: Blood Origin demonstrates the danger of treating streaming TV like a six-hour or 10-hour movie at Netflix or other streamers, with studio tampering in post-production to alter the entire story