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Physical Media and Collective Nostalgia By Paige Eldridge • January 30th, 2025 But even though discs can be seen as outdated, they’re not out of style yet.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.
I Can’t Lie to You About Your Chances, but You Have My Sympathies: Alien: Romulus (2024) and the Plague of Legacy Sequels By Orrin Grey • December 12th, 2024 Those who are familiar with my film opinions will know that I don’t have a high regard for legacy sequels – to put it mildly.
Tom Waits, Movie Star By Joel Blackledge • December 5th, 2024 Waits himself cheerfully admits that his whole persona is an act.
I Want to Ask Your Forgiveness for What I Will Inflict on You: Red Rooms (2023) and the Abjection of Obsession By Orrin Grey • November 26th, 2024 How much difference is there, after all, between watching a murder take place, and reconstructing that same murder through your favorite true crime series, book, or podcast?
