An arcade game like Street Fighter is basically a blank canvas for any filmmaker to adapt. The franchise doesn’t really have ...

If you spent a lot of time in grad school studying the humanities, the idea of a documentary not really being all that different from a fictional narrative doesn’t seem like pretentious hogwash. A ...

One of the great beauties of sapphic love is the way it makes you see the world differently. The grind of life, the mundaneness of apathy, none of it matters when an older soft masc is giving you all ...

It can be easy to overcomplicate the troubles that have plagued film adaptations of DC Comics for the past decade. Zack Snyder’s Ayn Rand grimdark nonsense was never going to have a ton of mainstream ...

There’s a tendency by many aging comedians to proclaim that the humor that launched their careers could never be made today. Rainn Wilson recently attempted that train of thought with regard to The ...

One of the harder parts about growing older as an LGBTQ person is the realization that the better tomorrow that was promised isn’t exactly coming. The 2015 Supreme Court decision Obergefell v. Hodges ...

The timelessness of The Wizard of Oz is not a particularly complex notion. Judy Garland’s performance as Dorothy is eminently relatable across generations. We all want to feel at home, whether that’s ...

Society has a weird way of selectively clutching its pearls regarding morality. We’ve celebrated bad people for years, villains we love to hate. But social issues, like gun violence and abortion, ...

One of the great powers of film as a medium lies in its ability to capture mood. Film offers a narrow prism into its subjects’ lives, two hours against a whole existence. The saying that the journey ...

Two prominent complaints surfaced in the wake of Joker’s blockbuster success in 2019. The first criticism took aim at the way Todd Phillips’s origin story bent over backward to garner sympathy for the ...