Totally Generic Nightbitch By Natasha Ochshorn • February 12th, 2025 The whole fantasy element could be excised neatly from the film without it feeling much different, which is a worrisomely blasé way to come out of a film where someone turns into a dog at night.
Rookie of the Year Unwinnable’s Coverage of the Worldwide Video Arcade Championships is VERY Late (Sorry!) By Matt Marrone • February 7th, 2025 “This movie is cool because it’s in the ’80s.”
Mind Palaces Here’s Why I Should Be Allowed to Make Another Sleuth Movie By Maddi Chilton • February 4th, 2025 I have spent the entire year bringing up these movies through any conceivable justification, and now it’s your turn to suffer.
A Very Twisted Kingdom: The Cell (2000) Twenty-Five Years Later By Orrin Grey • February 3rd, 2025 Is there anything under all the artistic lifting and stylistic indulgences?
Physical Media and Collective Nostalgia By Paige Eldridge • January 30th, 2025 But even though discs can be seen as outdated, they’re not out of style yet.
Run It Back 2024 By Oluwatayo Adewole • January 30th, 2025 The question of art’s utility becomes especially mired in complexity when we think about how much of Black/Queer art is eulogy.
Run It Back 1985 By Oluwatayo Adewole • January 8th, 2025 Writer/Director Piotr Szulkin’s vision of post-apocalyptic survival in O-Bi O-Ba: The End of Civilization is a grim one.
A Blast from the Past: Demolition Man (1993), Political Correctness, and Predicting the Future By Orrin Grey • January 6th, 2025 As a satire, it is anodyne. As an action movie, largely inert. As science fiction, nonsensical.
Exploits Feature Can You Spoil a Story That Already Happened? By Aaraf Afzal • January 2nd, 2025 What exactly is a “spoiler” for Oppenheimer?
Was Moneyball a Mistake? By Javier Reyes • December 13th, 2024 Since 1998, only three teams have won a World Series title while being outside the top-15 in payroll, while 15 of the winners since then have been in the top-10.