After the Frame is where the credits roll but the conversation begins. We dive into the emotional beats, hidden meanings, and lingering questions behind your favorite films and shows. If you love rewatching with a deeper lens, unpacking character arcs, or exploring “what happens next,” this is your space. Smart, heartfelt, and a little nerdy—perfect for fans who can’t stop thinking after the screen fades to black.
This week on After the Frame, we’ve got two movies operating at very different levels of ambition, but both giving us plenty to talk about.
We start with Digger, Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s loud, strange, politically charged satire led by Tom Cruise in one of his most interesting performances in years. The movie is visually impressive, stacked with talent, and occasionally lands on genuinely sharp ideas about power, art, crisis, and ego. But it can also be blunt, self-satisfied, and much less funny than it thinks it is. The ambition and performances were enough to outweigh the mess for us.
Then we move to Verity, a movie that should have been pulpy, sexy, and completely ridiculous in the best possible way. Instead, it somehow drains the energy out of Dakota Johnson, Josh Hartnett, and even Anne Hathaway. We get into the lifeless performances, weak script, nonexistent tension, and how a movie with this much built-in melodrama ended up feeling so strangely empty.
One movie swings hard enough to survive its flaws. The other barely swings at all.
4 Oct 2026
Resident Evil & Primetime: Chaos, Ambition, and Uneasy Entertainment
This week on After the Frame, we start with Resident Evil, Zach Cregger’s latest swing at horror. Austin Abrams gives the movie a strong center and the pacing keeps things moving, but the goofy tone and lack of emotional weight leave us wondering whether a merely good movie can still feel disappointing when it comes from the filmmaker behind Barbarian and Weapons.
Then we move into Primetime, a much more complicated conversation. Robert Pattinson, Merritt Wever, and Skyler Gisondo deliver standout performances in a movie that digs into fame, ambition, media, and what happens when a sense of moral purpose starts getting tangled up with entertainment.
The big question is whether Primetime’s uncomfortable perspective makes it more fascinating or pushes its argument too far. We get into the performances, the technical craft, the moral unease, and why this is the kind of movie that can leave different viewers walking out with completely different reactions.
One movie is a fast, goofy genre ride. The other is the kind of film you may still be arguing about days later.
20 Sept 2026
Movie Mayhem: Big Swings & Bigger Debates
This week on After the Frame, the three of us are getting into the kind of movie conversation that starts with one opinion and somehow turns into an argument about four completely different films.
From the ambition of Sinners and the blockbuster spectacle of Mission: Impossible: The Final Reckoning to Jurassic World Rebirth and Superman, we trade takes on what worked, what fell short, and which movies actually delivered on the hype.
There are disagreements, unexpected defenses, a few questionable takes, and plenty of appreciation for the moments that remind us why we love going to the movies in the first place. No carefully coordinated rankings this time, just three movie fans seeing where the conversation takes them.
Big movies, bigger opinions, and absolutely no guarantee we’ll agree on any of them.
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