Exploits Feature Andor By Van Dennis • November 3rd, 2025 You are never safe from Imperial disposability.
Totally Generic 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.
Exploits Feature The Most Diverse Fascists You’ll Ever Meet By Elijah Beahm • September 3rd, 2024 Let’s have more women spaceprison guards, too, while we’re at it.
Demanding More from our Sad Dads By Elijah Beahm • June 26th, 2023 There’s a time and place for gaming’s sad dads as protagonists, but over the last decade or so, they’ve become worryingly common.
Feature Excerpt Hope and Sacrifice in Andor By Kiernan Elam • March 21st, 2023 Andor paints a clear and lucid picture of the absolute power authoritarians can wield over people and how cruel fascism must be in order to preserve that power.
Everyone Has a Job: The Future of Silent Running (1972) By Orrin Grey • December 13th, 2022 Anyone who complains that modern movies are too didactic probably shouldn’t watch Silent Running, which puts all its theses into the mouth of Bruce Dern’s space-bound ecologist.
Feature Story Monstrous By David Shimomura • October 22nd, 2022 Monsters, necessarily, cannot be “bad.” Instead, like many horrors, the true monsters are dark reflections of our anxieties and stresses.
