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A still from The Venture Bros.: Radiant is the Blood of the Baboon Heart showing a a close-up on a blonde boy wearing a Batman Halloween mask in front of a blue summer sky.

A Secret Third Thing

By Maddi Chilton • September 27th, 2023

The Venture Bros. premiered in 2004. Seven seasons later, it finally gets its finale, or what amounts to one.

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A screenshot from Pathologic shows buildings with strange conical architecture reaching up into hazy grey skies.

Architectural Intent

By Maddi Chilton • September 6th, 2023

For a book that is nominally about the hubristic imaginings of a genius architect, Rose/House seems to have no actual interest in architecture.

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Stacks of books on their sides, just begging to be read.

Marathon May

By Maddi Chilton • July 5th, 2023

This is not the best way to interact with art, but it’s also hard to see what the alternative is.

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Our World and the Others

By Maddi Chilton • May 30th, 2023

Our scientific mindset, our modern rationalism is a handicap when attempting to represent the premodern, where the boundaries that we consider so key for understanding our world have no presence.

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A scene from Dune shows the silhouette of a man looking out across a vast expanse of organized troops in a desert landscape.

Honor Among Adaptations

By Maddi Chilton • May 4th, 2023

A faithful adaptation can be satisfying, but an unfaithful adaptation can be invigorating.

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The player character in the videogame Prey takes on a small group of shadowy enemies in a silver-toned space station.

Eat, Prey, Love

By Maddi Chilton • April 4th, 2023

The question at the heart of Prey is whether Morgan is more human than alien.

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Almost All About Eve

By Maddi Chilton • March 3rd, 2023

She was flagrantly, cheerfully, and simply bisexual. Odd that her biographer did not seem to have noticed this.

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A close-up of the World Cup trophy shining on the field of a massive stadium.

Athletic Feats of Narrative

By Maddi Chilton • January 31st, 2023

Experiencing a story as it happens, one where an ending hasn’t been decided – that is what gives sports their fun and their nerve.

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A still from the movie Barbarian shows a woman with long curly hair standing on a porch gazing off into the night.

Go In Blind

By Maddi Chilton • December 6th, 2022

There’s a very simple reason why you have to go into Barbarian blind: because the big twist makes no sense.

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A still of Tom Hanks smirking sleazily as Colonel Tom Parker in Baz Luhrmann's Elvis.

Evil as Can Be

By Maddi Chilton • October 4th, 2022

The idea that Elvis would have been happy and healthy and long-lived if only were it not for his life-long manager Colonel Tom Parker is ahistorical.

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A black and white lithograph of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson deep in discussion while traveling by train.

An Introduction

By Maddi Chilton • September 6th, 2022

It is becoming more and more challenging to consume art, to use the current crass colloquialism. We just know too much.

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