I first met Art the Clown in October 2022. Overjoyed that movies were finally showing a pulse in the wake of the pandemic, ...

Last year, I penned an article about the SALTBURN effect on the Gen Z women of TikTok, peeling back the layers of unfiltered, ...

I face the ban of TikTok (at least, the iteration that isn’t completely under the thumb of Donald Trump) in the United States ...

I actually thought she had it in the bag. Dubious popular vote count, but decisive electoral college victory after Donald Trump embarked on ...

Something that Will Wiesenfeld (Baths and Geotic) immediately makes clear about the writing of his first feature film score is that the prospect ...

The greatest privilege of being a citizen of the American empire is your distance from the carnage. The dismantling of democracies—and the mass ...

Normally, when one reacts to the Oscars, there’s only enough gas in the tank to tackle snubs, surprises, and musical number highlights, but ...

There’s a moment in Harmony Korine’s AGGRO DR1FT when a character, upon being shot, looks damn near into the camera and declares with ...

Barely had the credits rolled on SALTBURN, and there I was, diving headfirst into the abyss of TikTok for my nightly doom scroll. ...

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