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Author: Meg Condis

Documentary Sunday

Jiro Dreams of Sushi

By Megan Condis • October 2nd, 2019

Megan shares one of her all-time favorite films for her final column entry.

Documentary Sunday

Betting on Zero

By Megan Condis • August 27th, 2019

Multi-level marketing schemes may sell products, but people are really buying in for the prospect of “opportunity”.

Documentary Sunday

Perfect Bid: The Contestant Who Knew Too Much

By Megan Condis • August 5th, 2019

Not unlike the game show that it chronicles, watching The Perfect Bid is comforting. So long as you don’t think about it hard.

Documentary Sunday

Shirkers

By Megan Condis • July 8th, 2019

The story behind Shirkers is one of a doomed project and a bizarre cruelty.

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Agnès Varda’s The Gleaners and I and Faces Places

By Megan Condis • May 21st, 2019

The late French New Wave director’s documentary is a lot like the misshapen spuds it chronicles.

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The Cleaners

By Megan Condis • May 13th, 2019

A new kind of custodial labor is working to keep your social media feeds free from trolls, hate groups and terrorist organizations.

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Abducted in Plain Sight

By Megan Condis • April 9th, 2019

The internet’s quickness to make memes about Jan Broberg’s famous abductions (yes plural) reveals a lot about audiences’ own insecurities.

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I Survived ‘I Kissed Dating Goodbye’

By Megan Condis • March 7th, 2019

Christian author Joshua Harris’ supposed apologetic reflection on the lives his book damaged turns into one big PR stunt.

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Welcome to Marwen

By Megan Condis • February 8th, 2019

Mark Hogancamp’s biopic has plenty of Hollywood movie magic, but not enough to distract from the omissions that undermine its moral.

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The Power of Glove

By Megan Condis • January 10th, 2019

With videogame culture obsessed with retrofuturiusm, it’s only a matter of time before the ultimate nostalgic artifact makes a comeback: the Nintendo Power Glove.

Documentary Sunday

Terrace House

By Megan Condis • November 28th, 2018

Unlike on American reality television, at no point do any of the residents of Terrace House seem interested in ceasing to be polite and starting to get “real.”

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The Bleeding Edge

By Megan Condis • November 6th, 2018

The FDA has failed for decades in its duty to oversee medical technologies, with women disproportionately falling victim.

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Atari: Game Over Featuring an Interview with Andrew Reinhard

By Megan Condis • October 13th, 2018

Andrew Reinhard, author of Archaeogaming: An Introduction to Archaeology in and of Video Games, explains why its important for archaeologists to study games.

Documentary Sunday

The Rachel Divide

By Megan Condis • August 31st, 2018

In the wake of current events, we might ask why Netflix thought that pulling Rachel Dolezal back into the spotlight was a good idea at all.

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Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

By Megan Condis • August 24th, 2018

How do we teach kids about the complicated modern topics that throw even grown-ups for a loop? This looks like a job for Mr. Rogers.

Documentary Sunday
An EEG reading chart

Instrumental Intimacies: An Interview with Dr. Melissa Littlefield

By Megan Condis • July 3rd, 2018

Melissa Littlefield, the author of Instrumental Intimacies: EEG Wearables and Neuroscientific Control, talks with Megan Condis about fashion technologies that can read our minds.

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The Problem With Apu

By Megan Condis • June 12th, 2018

Megan Condis digs into the problem with The Simpsons’ reaction to The Problem With Apu.

Documentary Sunday

Ugly Delicious

By Megan Condis • May 15th, 2018

What makes pizza authentic? The documentary series Ugly Delicious wades into a long time rivalry between New York City and Naples.

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AlphaGo

By Megan Condis • April 10th, 2018

What if artificial intelligence reveals a different way for us to be human?

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I, Tonya

By Megan Condis • March 13th, 2018

Everybody has their own truth.

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That Sugar Film

By Megan Condis • February 14th, 2018

Can a documentary be considered brain food?

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Living Dolls

By Megan Condis • January 15th, 2018

Despite their creepiness, Meg Condis discovers that dolls hold an incredible sway over some collectors.

Documentary Sunday

The Real World Series

By Megan Condis • November 21st, 2017

Esports are on the rise, but we still need to figure out how to talk about them.

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The Confession Tapes

By Megan Condis • November 6th, 2017

Why would you confess to a crime you didn’t commit? Megan Condis watches The Confession Tapes to find out.

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Beware the Slenderman

By Megan Condis • October 10th, 2017

Megan Condis explores the chilling world of memes and Beware the Slenderman.

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Nobody Speak

By Megan Condis • August 31st, 2017

What ya gonna do when the forces aligned against the freedom of the press run wild on you?  Let’s hope we don’t have to find out.

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Weiner

By Megan Condis • August 2nd, 2017

“Like Huma, the film encourages us to step back and look at politicians like these with ‘a mixture of contempt and sadness.'”

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The Keepers

By Megan Condis • July 10th, 2017

The Keepers is about holding on to hope in the face of horror.

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At All Costs

By Megan Condis • May 26th, 2017

In amateur youth sports, there’s more at stake than how you play the game.

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Tickled

By Megan Condis • May 3rd, 2017

Competitive Endurance Tickling is a thing, just not the thing you think it is.

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Chicken People

By Megan Condis • April 6th, 2017

Some people really love their chickens.

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Welcome to Leith

By Megan Condis • February 22nd, 2017

What do you do when Nazis come to take over your town?

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Sour Grapes

By Megan Condis • February 4th, 2017

A delicate bouquet of the perils of materialism, with subtle notes of bullshit.

Hate the Game

By Megan Condis • November 7th, 2016

The process of falling in love is not exactly portrayed with finesse by very many videogames…

HBO’s Westworld Might Go Where The Matrix Didn’t Dare

By Megan Condis • November 2nd, 2016

If Westworld is a rabbit hole, how deep does it go?

Beholder: The Apartment Management Sim for the Paranoid Conspiracy Theorist

By Megan Condis • September 26th, 2016

“I didn’t want to do them harm, but I also didn’t mind invading their privacy, especially when I could convince myself that it was for their own good.”

I Love the 80s: An Interview with Kreg Mosier

By Megan Condis • September 12th, 2016

Meg got to sit down with a lover of the 1980’s and maker of tabletop games, Kreg Mosier.

You Are What You Hate

By Megan Condis • August 31st, 2016

“Being a geek is all about being honest about what you enjoy and not being afraid to demonstrate that affection. … It’s basically a license to proudly emote.”

Who is Eleven’s Papa? A Stranger Things Theory

By Megan Condis • August 29th, 2016

There are a lot of questions to be answered in the wake of Season 1. Who is Eleven’s papa? Can Steve’s hair get any taller?

Playing With Our Emotions: An Interview with Yvvy

By Megan Condis • August 15th, 2016

Empathy games aren’t going anywhere, and now they’ve made it into the classroom.

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