Memoirs From a Picture Show is a semi-regular column from the Merry-Go-Round staff chronicling memories, miracles, and anomalies from our time spent in ...

I have never been a particularly voracious reader. I don’t dislike it, mind you. When I do crack a book that captures my ...

Thanks for clicking into our end of the year coverage! Merry-Go-Round Magazine is an independent culture site funded by people like you! If ...

This marks my sixth year attending Sundance from the comfort of my couch, my cozy blankets, and my two fluffy kittens. While I ...

There are few theater-wide reactions more unifying than an auditorium of squinting, face-palming attendees thinking, “What is this fucking bitch doing?” Rose doesn’t ...

My collecting habits in 2025, as they have in most years, functioned in a pocket between selective and impulsive. For a film like ...

Two years ago, a few days after the holidays, I was standing at my desk, barely into my morning tea, while Microsoft Teams ...

Once a year and change, I find myself revisiting Spike Jonze’s 2013 opus, HER. The film is a dreamy and melancholic portrait of ...

Last Saturday, I was lucky enough to be invited to Chevalier’s Books for a Q&A with Hamnet author Maggie O’Farrell and film director Chloé ...

In my freshman year of high school, I read Battle Royale by Koushun Takami for the first time. I loved the pulpy, almost ...