Zenshu, one of the standout animes of last season, positions itself as a love letter to animation. But under all the smooth movement and bea...

Most modern criticism agrees, audiences have a lot of interpretive say. So why do people still talk about media like it's being inflicte...

There Is No Antimemetics Division reminded me why I keep coming back to speculative fiction.

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 Hey, you see the recent output from Jon McNaughton, painter of all values traditional and all aesthetics that uphold the Western Tradition?...

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Our culture is saturated with superhero stories, but as those stories turn towards action adventure narratives it's up to a detec...

The Auteur as a figure in entertainment is dead. Grown strong on digital production, a more artistically bankrupt creature emerges in their...

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The seasonal countdown of horror movies continues, with werewolves as romantic metaphor, the horror of adolescence, and a bunch of f...

Over the last few years, I've watched close to 100 horror movies. Now, to escape the nightmare of the holi...

A single joke tweet dropped pharma giant Eli Lilly's stock value by $15,000,000,000. Inside the aesthetics and strategies of Parafiction...

Prometheus was supposed to be Ridley Scott's triumphant return to making films about Aliens. Instead, we got a film full of necromancers...

The anime Dance Dance Danseur dwells on the angst of conforming to standards of performance--of art, and of gender. Why does its protagonist...