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Don't Stop Believing
A still from the movie The Royal Hotel shows main characters Hanna and Liv standing in front of a retro car in a parking lot. Hanna stares somewhere past the viewer while Liv is turned away, gazing in another direction.

How Art Helped Me in 2025

By Elijah Beahm • January 8th, 2026

We might not even realize it as it happens, but what we engage with shapes us.

Mind Palaces
A still from Adaptation features Nicholas Cage in a dual role as twin brothers, mid conversation in a dimly lit living room.

Bad Good Ideas

By Maddi Chilton • January 7th, 2026

I am on board, conceptually, with Adaptation’s ambition.

Feature Story
The classic Boris Karloff-as-Frankenstein's-monster mug shot.

Children of the Charnel House

By Orrin Grey • December 23rd, 2025

The story of Frankenstein, like so many others, has become something else, something that we each build for ourselves, piece by piece.

Nonhuman Meditations
A still from the short film "Layla" shows the titular robot riding a skateboard in a skate park.

Layla was a Skater Bot

By Alyssa Wejebe • December 18th, 2025

Robotic characters in fiction have long provided another metaphorical arena for human stories to play out.

Totally Generic
A still from Weapons shows main character Justine walking nervously through a school parking lot.

Watching Weapons

By Natasha Ochshorn • December 12th, 2025

Everyone is watching each other but very few are keeping an eye out.

Mind Palaces
Clea Duvall and Natasha Lyonne gaze at each other in a dance club in this still from But I’m a Cheerleader!.

Does This Dress Make Me Look Straight

By Maddi Chilton • December 3rd, 2025

Walking away from the practice of homogenous heterosexual cohesion is just as legitimate as walking towards it.

4K disc release art for Outland on the left and Red Planet on the right. Outland has a colorful painting of a space suited miner spiraling out, and red planet has a mostly red image of an astronaut's helmet reflecting the planet mars

No Place for Heroes: Surviving in Spaaaaaaace with Outland (1981) and Red Planet (2000)

By Orrin Grey • November 19th, 2025

Both look and sound probably about as good as their source material would ever allow them to, which honestly isn’t bad in either case.

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