2021 was an odd year of transient, nigh-unidentifiable cinema: leftovers meant for an alternate 2020, knee-jerk responses to the ongoing crises of the ...

THE MATRIX is an experience that producers, filmmakers, and audiences alike have been chasing the cultural and commercial high of like junkies ever ...

HAMILTON may very well be a U.S. government psyop, but I’ve always been fond of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s IN THE HEIGHTS. In 2008, the ...

The Academy Awards peaked at Bong and died in Union Station. Not tribute nor elegy, the 2021 Oscars were simply another ceremony. Quietly ...

As we circle in on almost a year in quarantine, we’re rounding the corner for an infamous, albeit Hallmark, holiday. Valentine’s Day has ...

What Andrei Tarkovsky wanted from his viewers was patience—a simple kind of attention not catalyzed by an agenda. Tarkovsky hated when fan mail ...

On January 4th, after a premature press release, and a bizarre back-and-forth with her representative, actress Tanya Roberts was pronounced dead after collapsing ...

In a year where the future of film felt more uncertain than ever, the Merry-Go-Round Magazine staff cast their best-of-the-year ballots and hereby ...

This piece centers on a very frank conversation about suicide. Please read with the appropriate caution. I am writing this because I know ...

Editor Kevin Cookman and contributor Ryan Michaels bought into the late-year release hype of Francis Ford Coppola’s THE GODFATHER, CODA: THE DEATH OF ...