Shakespeare Love's Leisure's Park Nostalgically celebrating Shakespeare and the good ol' days when kids could spend their summers in an edenic, anarchist fever dream
Before Sunrise Memories of a Sleepless Night - Before Sunrise Linklater's grand romance starts by hiding deep themes in a deceptively simple film
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Martin Scorsese Circling Around Themes With a long enough filmography, recurring fascinations emerge...
Television Marvel Studios' Thunderbolts* and the Waning of American Cultural Hegemony Does the world still want what America is peddling?
2025 Films Live Together, Die Alone - Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning For Ethan Hunt, it takes a village.
Television Have Stories Gotten Too Long? Or is it just our insatiable appetite telling us we're perpetually hungry?
Superheroes Thunderbolts*: Marvel's Old Habits Try To Build Something New - Review With the final film of Phase Five, Marvel is doing the Herculean effort of dragging the MCU back onto the tracks
Canon Conundrum The Seven Ethans Hunt - Canon Conundrum When your main character is never quite the same person...
Verisimilitude Even Stories Should Bare Their Soul In a world of adapting intellectual property to a new medium, how much should creators trust their source material?
Criterion Challenge The 2025 Criterion Challenge (First Half) My third attempt at completing the Criterion Challenge is now at its midpoint. What stands out?
