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Loudermilk

By Ben Sailer • August 1st, 2025

Writing about culture should be about more than just trying to control the narrative around a creator or their work.

A screenshot from the Leftovers where Kevin is dancing with Nora, Kevin looking very thoughtful as circles of light flares around him

The Accumulated Past

By Jimmy Hollenbeck • July 23rd, 2025

What’s more important in the show’s final scene is its emotional truth.

A still from The Beaches of Agnes, a film by Agnes Varda, with a comic drawing of the director sitting on a very tall director chair in a red jumper staring at the water and a seagull

Does Taste Matter?

By Farouk Kannout • July 17th, 2025

Living human beings, unlike works of art, don’t have easily definable endings to encapsulate what they represent.

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Diego Luna looks pensively off into the distance in a scene from Andor.

What Are We Talking About When We’re Talking About Star Wars?

By Natasha Ochshorn • June 10th, 2025

The depiction of fascism in Andor, – its annihilating possibilities, its pervasiveness, its seductions towards complicity – feel extrapolated from the present moment, terrifyingly. Its rebellion feels hopefully so.

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TikTok at Nite

By Sara Clemens • June 2nd, 2025

“Shh, my show is on!”

Kolchak: The Night Stalker

By Stu Horvath • May 26th, 2025

Bringing occult detective work to the common man!

a still image from the HBO Max adaptation of The Last of Us with Joel on his front porch at night holding the acoustic guitar he made for Ellie as she stands nearby with a stern look on her face

Games are More Than The Last of Us

By William Fox • May 23rd, 2025

The Last of Us gives the player no real agency.

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The main foursome in Halt and Catch Fire pose in a promo pic for the final season of the show.

Programming Romance

By Natasha Ochshorn • May 8th, 2025

AI will get to know you, or at least predict your shopping habits, but you cannot get to know it back.

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Shogun

By Levi Rubeck • May 1st, 2025

Here we have a call, from one heart to another but suffused with meaning for others paying close attention.

Noah's Beat Box
The late film director David Lynch takes a huge bite of a glazed donut.

Ok, Let’s Try That Again, but This Time Good!

By Noah Springer • March 14th, 2025

If there is someone who I strongly admired and I think stood for something good in the world of the creative industries, it would have to be David Lynch.

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