All TV/Film
If you’re even remotely online, countless facets of your life are observed and cataloged all the time. It happens via the technology we use every day, the resulting data sold or otherwise disseminated...
Between failing to capitalize on Frozen’s queer subtext to positioning a cop mentioning her girlfriend in passing as a watershed moment, I’ve long since stopped hoping Disney would put queer ch...
Ridley Scott seems to have discovered the secret to making Jared Leto palatable: render him unrecognizable, make sure everything he says is incomprehensible, and limit his time on-screen to no more th...
Just before Thanksgiving, Deadline broke the news that Amazon Studios is in negotiations to adapt BioWare’s beloved sci-fi video game series Mass Effect for television. While no further details...
The rural Korean village of Gokseong has a problem. People are killing one another in frenzies of homicidal glee. They’re also growing rashes and boils all over their bodies, erupting in foul-mouthed...
I have been watching a truly wild amount of Star Trek here in quarantine. I’m currently nearing the end of my rewatch of Star Trek: The Original Series (or TOS). This comes after my...
This week finds many of us quarantined in our homes, stuck inside with our anxieties for company while cable news and social media whisper alternating streams of apocalyptic nihilism and blustering de...
The Twilight Zone is back, under the leadership of Get Out and Us writer–director Jordan Peele. The series’ premiere episode a...
The Marvel Cinematic Universe is one wild and winding timeline. It sports dozens of movies, plus a few TV shows, split across multiple “phases.” It’s been more than a decade in the making. But, with t...
I went into the new Ghostbusters with some degree of trepidation.
Werner Herzog is a prolific filmmaker, known chiefly for his narrated feature-length documentaries including Encounters at the End of the World, Grizzly Man, and Cave of Forgotte...
“You know nothing, Jon Snow,” is the consistent refrain and joke from Game of Thrones. Apparently, we are the ones who know nothing, however, as Jon Snow is the one who’s winning. The charact...
It seems that Marvel Studios’ next big ensemble project is Thunderbolts. According to Deadline, the studio has found a director for the film, putting it ahead of the previously-announc...
It’s been a week of huge manga news so far. There was the news that Berserk was going to be finished following the death of creator Kentarou Miura. Now, there’s the an...
It was a shock when Berserk creator Kentarou Miura died last year. The mangaka passed away at the age of 54 due to acute aortic dissection. Miura had written and drawn Berserk since 198...
Happy Valentine’s Day! Or… Palentine’s or Galentine’s or whatever tickles your particular fancy. This week, we’re falling in love (maybe!) with a classic screwball comedy of the 1930s, Howard Hawks’ <...
This week, the crime crew of merritt k, Steven Strom and Danielle Riendeau watch and discuss Michael Mann’s macho 1995 classic, Heat. A crime drama with surprising ties to reality, unbelievable cinema...
The Satanic Temple might not be what you think it is. It was founded in the last decade by a bunch of folks who wanted to use Satan as a symbol for tolerance and religious pluralism in the US,...