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A screenshot from the trailer for The Cell featuring Jennifer Lopez in heavy eyeliner and a killer red lip and a huge red hood and a single tear falling down her cheek

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?

A pile of various old media formats including a CD, cassette tape, game boy cartridge, 3.5" floppy disks, and more

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But even though discs can be seen as outdated, they’re not out of style yet.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
A black-and-white photo of Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba wearing a suit in what appears to be a government building, arms raised as if in surrender.

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
A still from O-Bi, O-Ba shows a man shielding his eyes from a bright light shining into his face, several bodies splayed on the ground around him.

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 crop of the box art for Demolition Man with Stallone on the left and Snipes on the right staring lovingly into each others eyes

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?

A screenshot from Moneyball where Brad Pitt is sitting in the stands of an otherwise empty stadium holding a walkie talkie radio and staring intently at the field

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.

A screenshot from the trailer for Alien Romulus, featuring a dimly lit space hallway and three human shadows staring pensively into a dark entryway

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.

A screenshot from the trailer for Down by Law in black and white featuring Tom Waits driving a car, looking in the rear view mirror anxiously

Tom Waits, Movie Star

By Joel Blackledge • December 5th, 2024

Waits himself cheerfully admits that his whole persona is an act.

A screenshot from the trailer for Red Rooms featuring an all white courtroom with multiple screens showing the faces of three female victims, as well as a judge, lawyers, and a jury

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?

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