J. Ryan Stradal & Adam Cushman 
Critically Acclaimed 

‘A large portion of this money, we of course have now learned, was put toward the scientific enterprise of discovering a new planet in the solar system and then, no other way to describe it, blowing it up.’


A fun and poignant collection of real reviews of fake movies by some of today’s best and brightest writers.


What seems like a funny, whimsical book, is actually an acute look at how cultural criticism works, what we find important or unimportant, and how movies help shape our world.


Featuring writers like, Kevin Wilson (author of
The Family Fang), Antoine Wilson (author of
Panorama City), Comedian Sofiya Alexandra, and many, many, more.

About the author

Adam Cushman is an author and film director. His novel
Cut was released in2014 from Black Mountain Press. He is the director of the feature films
Restraint and
The Maestro. He is the owner of Film 14.


J. Ryan Stradal was born and raised in Minnesota. He now lives in Los Angeles, where he is an editor-at-large at Unnamed Press, fiction editor at
The Nervous Breakdown, advisory board member at 826LA, and coproducer & host of the literary/culinary series
Hot Dish. His first book is the
New York Times bestselling novel
Kitchens of the Great Midwest (Viking / Pamela Dorman Books, 2015). Voted the 2016 Adult Debut Book of the Year in the American Booksellers Association’s Indies Choice Book Awards,
Kitchens has been acquired for publication in twelve other countries and optioned by Warner Bros. for film & TV. His shorter work appears in
Hobart,
The Wall Street Journal,
The Guardian,
The Rumpus,
The Los Angeles Review of Books,
Buzz Feed, and
Midnight Breakfast, among other places. He likes books, wine, sports, root beer, and peas.