Electric Sheep
HBO’s Westworld is as much of a post-millennial meta-textual exercise as the original was a 1970s fear-of-technology thriller. That doesn’t mean it has nothing to say, though. Spoilers for the first three episodes.
1984 Upside Down, or, Use Your Allusions
Stranger Things would still be pretty great if it were just a shameless pastiche of 80s movies, but it ends up transcending that.
First They Came For The Valleywags, and I Said Nothing
Navigating the minefield of principled opinions that results when wealthy strangers sue each other.
Have you heard the good news?
Valve has turned me into one of Those People.
Unbreakable
Everything a cowardly adult needs to know about 10 Cloverfield Lane
One of the Good Ones
Zootopia is surprisingly great, and a reminder of the value of family movies as parable
Would That It Were So Simple
A cursory and non-reductive look at Hail, Caesar! by Joel and Ethan Coen
Why I’m Excited About Firewatch
The future of independent game development is now! Or at least two years ago!
Exit, surrounded by Muppets
Tremendous respect for David Bowie, and a theory on what seems truly alien
It’s a Shame About Rey
Another note about The Force Awakens, merchandising, and spoiler culture. Contains huge spoilers, obviously.
It’s True. All of It.
Why I unabashedly love Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and how much I’ve missed being able to unabashedly love a movie
Ease On Down
The internet is pretty dumb, you guys.