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 ...

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 ...

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 don’t think I’ve ever been so instantly attached to one of the emails that’s come across the Merry-Go-Round desk in 10 years ...

By design, Julian Glander’s BOYS GO TO JUPITER feels unassuming. If you’ve been on the Internet at all in the last decade-and-a-half, you’ve ...