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A screenshot from the trailer for Westworld where a terrifying Yul Brenner in a black cowboy hat is obscured by a nearly single line version of the film's title

Boy, Have We Got a Vacation for You: Watching Westworld (1973) After All This Time

By Orrin Grey • March 6th, 2026

It takes roughly 10,000 years for the robots to finally go berserk.

A screenshot of Alien Covenant where Blond David in a blue little uniform is looking down disdainfully at us, the viewer

Comfort of Cold Starlight

By Wyeth Leslie • March 4th, 2026

The reduction of human life to extract value for others has always been the text of this hostile universe.

A screencap of the trailer title screen for American Yakuza featuring the title in black on a red field with Japanese characters to the left and an underscore of blood spatter on the bottom

Sentiment Has No Value: American Yakuza (1993) on Arrow Video Blu

By Orrin Grey • February 20th, 2026

For those who don’t remember, the early 90s were relatively obsessed with yakuza vs. mafia stories.

Exploits Feature

Something to Touch

By KM Nelson • February 2nd, 2026

“The point is not realism, but presence and sensation.”

Mind Palaces
A still from Barquero of a rugged man leaning forward in the bright sun, a beat up hat on his head and a well-worn shirt worn open barely hanging on to his shoulders.

A Fistful of Westerns

By Maddi Chilton • January 30th, 2026

There’s nothing as satisfying as a well-framed shot of a horse running fast.

Run It Back
A scene from Palestine 36 shows several men riding through an arid landscape on horseback.

2025

By Oluwatayo Adewole • January 28th, 2026

This month we reflect on the year gone past and how the spirit of revolution never really dies.

Feature Excerpt
A man pulls a syringe full of glowing yellow liquid from a bottle in a scene from Re-Animator.

Grad School is the Scariest Part: On Re-Animator

By Alexander B. Joy • January 26th, 2026

Re-Animator’s gory packaging and squeamish set pieces mask a trenchant – and accurate – sendup of all the reasons why graduate school is a toxic mess.

Talkin’ About Stuff

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • January 19th, 2026

Catchin’ up on some TV and movies.

Noah's Beat Box
Gandalf approaches the hilly Shire in a rickety horse-drawn wagon.

One Dream to Rule Them All

By Noah Springer • January 16th, 2026

My eyes glaze over and again, my dreams dance on gilded waves, gliding towards Rivendell.

Totally Generic
Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett lean in for a kiss in a scene from Black Bag.

Best of 2025

By Natasha Ochshorn • January 14th, 2026

The most sustained joy I got this year was mainlining old seasons of Top Chef while I packed and moved and unpacked apartments.

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