The feud between Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison has, like many histories lost to time, been reduced to a bifurcated battle between ideologies: Tesla the communist, generating free energy for…
There’s going to be a lot of talk about how eerily prescient She Dies Tomorrow is, given that it was shot before the pandemic and features a virus that makes…
Ah, college, when dreams were just within reach and pursuing your passions wasn’t a death sentence (unless you count tuition costs). If you miss those days, you’re not alone: Kate…
If you’re wondering what Yes, God, Yes is about, ask yourself this: where in life could you see yourself screaming that phrase in complete ecstasy? If you’re imagining yourself in…
It’s not every day that a movie bores me to tears in its first fifteen minutes, so in some regard, I suppose The Rental is unlike anything you’ll see this…
The scene from which The Painted Bird takes its name is an odd one. Our protagonist, a young vagabond boy in mid-WW2 Eastern Europe, helps his caretaker slather a captured…
A recent study from the University of Chicago suggested that fans of horror movies are better equipped to deal with the COVID pandemic, partly because they’ve grown used to being…
The world’s most powerful government crippled by a virus. Police tear-gassing non-violent protesters but tolerating right-wing militias. The Arctic reaching Arizona-level temperatures. If humanity makes it through all this, there’ll…
The question on everyone’s mind has finally been answered: where has Joseph Gordon-Levitt been all these years? He starred in 2016’s Snowden shortly before the election, but when the world…
When Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing came out in 1989, there was much discussion around what “the right thing” actually was. At the film’s climax, a police officer murders…
Shirley is a semi-fictional film about Shirley Jackson, the acclaimed horror author behind The Haunting of Hill House. It’s based on a 2014 novel by Susan Scarf Merrell, a writer…
Feel-good movies get a bad rap. They might not be the most edifying movies in the world, but the world is pretty feel-bad right now, and a little feel-good on…
