As I ease back into blogging, I’m going to start a series called Movie Monday because, well, we watch a lot of movies. And I always have thoughts. For my inaugural Movie Monday post, I’m going to tackle Mank, an Oscar hopeful.

The movie centers on Herman Mankiewicz, a screenwriter, as he struggles to finish Citizen Kane in a timely fashion for Orson Welles. The film goes back and forth between Mank’s writing the screenplay and flashbacks that inspired the story behind it. Here’s the thing: if...