1. What if children's media was art? Well, I guess we live in a world where that's sort of a settled question, isn't it? It...

"[T]he movie is structured to be moving towards these multiple climaxes, to put it in the parlance of the female orgasm." -- J...

Nightbitch, a film about a frustrated housewife who starts turning into a were-dog, actually resonated a lot with me as a trans woman... unt...

If elevated horror films are so desperate to give us "deep" metaphor about drug use, why do all their drugs suck? Sometimes Hellra...

The protagonists of anime My Dress Up Darling occupy a kinder world, more free to explore their identities and passions. Our world has more ...

Timekeepers of Eternity rips and tears the material of classic Stephen King serial the Langoliers to shreds. It might just accidentally be t...

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.

Jordan Peele's Twilight Zone reboot is a bizarre time capsule of issues liberals said they cared about in 2019. Just five years on, many...

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

Isn't it weird how many stories lately feature villains trying to tap into alternate or simulated realities to reunite with loved ones? ...

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...