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Crop of the Japanese poster for Shin Kamen Rider 2023, featuring an illustration of the titular rider with his grasshopper helmet, high collar jacket, streaming scarf, and brooding energy

Happiness and Pain: Going Cold into Shin Kamen Rider (2023)

By Orrin Grey • June 2nd, 2023

There’s more visual punch in any 15 minutes of Shin Kamen Rider than a dozen other blockbusters.

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.

Mind Palaces

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.

Run It Back

A promo image for John Waters' Serial Mom showing the title character posed in front of a white picket fence in a cheery polka-dot dress. She smiles sinisterly while holding a knife above a pristine cherry pie, though the knife seems to already have some of the red filling smeared on the blade. Unless...

1994

By Oluwatayo Adewole • April 28th, 2023

The year of John Wayne Gacy’s execution, Jeffrey Dahmer’s baptism and John Waters’ suburban comedy Serial Mom.

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • April 10th, 2023

Did you hear there is a Dungeons & Dragons movie?

Screengrab for the title card of Dorktown's The History of the Seattle Mariners documentary, with the title at the top with "The supercut by Jon Bois and Alex Rubenstein" below and a chart of years, baseball players, graphs, and various other data spread below

It Just Continues: Dorktown’s The History of the Seattle Mariners

By Van Dennis • April 6th, 2023

Despite going over 40 years without ever reaching the mountaintop, the Mariners have a history worth recognizing, and one that can make you reconsider what a team “means.”

Run It Back

A still from Querelle shows a sailor leaning against a telephone pole as a theatrical sun sets behind him.

1982

By Oluwatayo Adewole • March 24th, 2023

This month we’re taking on two grand pieces of homoeroticism, Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s final film Querelle and Judas Priest’s Screaming for Vengeance.

Eyeing Elsewhere

Three boys skateboard down a New York street.

Behind the Camera

By Phillip Russell • March 23rd, 2023

While the subjects of Minding the Gap share a love for skateboarding, the heart of the documentary lies in the shared histories and traumas surrounding domestic abuse.

Screenshot from the trailer for The Conjuring, featuring the exorcist couple doing a little peekaboo in a spooky basement

Horror’s Path Through Christian Cosmology

By Lyana Rodriguez • March 17th, 2023

Howlikely is it that you find a monster justifying something truly dangerous and soul-crushing with a bit of Scripture? How easy is it, especially now, to discover a religious bigot justifying the shedding of blood for the sake of their own personal crusade?

A screenshot from the trailer for Black Sunday (1977), featuring a split shot with two closeups of some very tense looking agents

Bombs Bursting in Air: The Other Black Sunday (1977)

By Orrin Grey • March 15th, 2023

The movie’s producer, Robert Evans, quotes Henry Kissinger in telling him, “You can’t make it a political picture. You can’t take sides. You can’t make it anti or pro anyone.” How much they succeeded or failed at that is up for debate.

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