4th Wall Inward

Kristoffer Borgli has made a film about the worst thing you never did. Whether that is enough is the conversation we are having this week. The premise arrives early and without warning. Emma and Charlie are days away from their wedding. Their friends suggest a game over drinks. Everyone admits the worst thing they have ever done. Charlie confesses to bullying a classmate. Rachel confesses to somet...

Here is the full description with the corrected opening: Josh Safdie has spent the last decade making films with his brother Benny. Good Time. Uncut Gems. A creative partnership so specific and so singular that when it was announced he would direct Marty Supreme alone, the question was inevitable: what does a Safdie film look like when there is only one of them? The answer arrived Christmas Day 20...

1932. Clarksdale, Mississippi. Jim Crow. Two brothers who worked for Al Capone come home with enough money to build something of their own. A juke joint in an old sawmill. A space where the Black community of the Delta can drink, dance, and exist freely for one night. And a young blues prodigy named Sammie, whose talent is so extraordinary it does not just move the people in the room. It moves som...

Emerald Fennell wanted to recreate the feeling of a teenage girl reading Wuthering Heights for the first time. That is the stated intention. It is also, perhaps, the most honest description of what the film actually achieves and where it ultimately falls short. This week on The Fourth Wall Inward we go deep on the most divisive film of early 2026. Margot Robbie as Catherine Earnshaw. Jacob Elordi...

Los Angeles. A jewel thief who has never left a fingerprint. A detective who has finally found a pattern. An insurance broker standing at the edge of a decision that will change everything. And a wildcard who is about to blow the whole thing apart. This week on The Fourth Wall Inward we go deep on Crime 101, Bart Layton's adaptation of Don Winslow's novella, and ask the question that has b...

Sam Raimi has not made a horror film since Drag Me to Hell in 2009. Seventeen years. And then he made Send Help, an original R-rated survival horror thriller about a downtrodden office worker and her insufferable boss stranded alone on a deserted island after a plane crash. No franchise. No remake. No sequel. Just Raimi, a wickedly clever script, Rachel McAdams, and a lot of blood. This week on Th...

A man wakes up alone on a spaceship light years from Earth. He does not know who he is. He does not know why he is there. He does not know that everyone else on the crew is already dead. And neither, for a long beautiful stretch of this film, do we. This week on The Fourth Wall Inward we talk about Project Hail Mary — Phil Lord and Christopher Miller's adaptation of Andy Weir's Hugo Award-...

Fifty boys. One rule. Keep walking or die. That is the entire premise of The Long Walk — and it is one of the most brutal, psychologically devastating ideas Stephen King ever put on a page. He wrote it as a nineteen-year-old college freshman in 1966. It took nearly sixty years to reach the screen. Francis Lawrence, the director who gave us the best Hunger Games films, was the one who finally got t...

Netflix's biggest movie of 2026 is about an alien robot hunting Army Rangers through the Colorado wilderness. It stars Alan Ritchson, Dennis Quaid, and a cast of characters identified by numbers rather than names. It made Ritchson look great and cost him nothing. It cost the film everything. This week on The Fourth Wall Inward, we talk about War Machine — and more importantly, we talk about wh...

This is a big one — Best Picture winner, PTA, DiCaprio, Sean Penn. And you already wrote a review of it. Here's the title and description: Episode Title:Ep. 2 | One Battle After Another — The Best Picture That Anderson Almost Ruined Himself Description: Paul Thomas Anderson just won Best Picture. Six Oscars. Fourteen BAFTA nominations. The most decorated film of the 2026 awards season. And yet...

Gore Verbinski hasn't directed a feature in over a decade. That absence matters. This is the man behind the first three Pirates of the Caribbean films, The Ring , and Rango — a filmmaker with a specific, unmistakable intelligence. So when Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die arrived — a sci-fi action comedy about a man from the future recruiting diner strangers to stop a rogue AI — the anticipat...