Category: Arts & Entertainment
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.
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
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
Lowest Common Denormative
What terrible reviews of Trainwreck tell us about the sorry state of pop-progressivism on the Internet
