Essays Archives

It’s Oscar Week and that means we’re back in the predictions business. Here’s our take on the 2021 acting awards.

Before it was a worldwide phenomenon, it was just a new HBO show with a hell of a good hook.

The man, the myth, the legend.

His recent work is full of small moments that remind us to keep our friends close and to hang out with them whenever possible.

We’re looking out for the little guys in this tribute to ‘Gremlins,’ ‘Critters,’ and other movies with tiny terrors.

In this Stephen King adaptation, there is one creature that is more terrifying than the monsters themselves: fear.

Mamuro Oshii’s 1995 anime is a fascinating examination of the female cyborg and her assumed sexuality.

Proof that lowkey doesn’t have to mean dull and that a conversation can have as much tension as a heist sequence.

Gamera may have begun as a cheap Godzilla knockoff, but the flying fire-breathing turtle has earned his place at the big boy kaiju table.