Miles Surrey

There are some works of fiction that earn a reputation for being unfilmable , whether it’s due to their scale or, in the case of the 14-book Wheel of Time saga, the concern that no streamer would ever commit to the entire series. (Sure enough, Prime Video... See more

For my fellow science fiction fanatics, 2025 was a bit of a wash on the blockbuster front. Mickey 17 didn’t live up to the hype as Bong Joon-ho's follow-up to Parasite (could anything, really?); Avatar: Fire and Ash scored the lowest reviews in the franch... See more

After an awards season that made us feel the passage of time as ruefully as the protagonist of Train Dreams , the 98th Academy Awards are finally in the books. With Conan O’Brien returning as host—and former host Jimmy Kimmel making a memorable cameo comp... See more

RealClearBooks March 16, 2026 Archives RealClearBooks AM Update The Winners and Losers of the 2026 Oscars Miles Surrey The Ringer The Perverse, Tender Worlds of Paul Thomas Anderson David Denby New Yorker What I Did When the World Went Crazy Meghan Daum T... See more

The film most responsible for reshaping the Oscars’ Best Picture race never even made the ballot. In 2008, The Dark Knight was a legitimate cultural phenomenon, a blockbuster that entertained the masses without coming at the expense of thought-provoking i... See more