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Backrooms is a liminal nightmare, until it isn’t
Liminal spaces become truly scary is when it forces you to face a physical manifestation of something you’re facing about yourself.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day: A timeless hero’s confrontation with isolation
Spider-Man: Brand New Day goes beyond the superhero spectacle to teach us important lessons through Peter Parker
Reality Awaits: The Strokes return, vocoder first
The elephant in the room is the autotune, smeared across one of the most recognisable voices in music.
Unwanted Revenge: Breaking the fantasy of retribution
Unwanted Revenge: Not the Usual Happy deconstructs the fantasy that violence restores balance.
The problem with how we write women
What gets lost in all of this is the idea of women who aren’t symbols of anything at all.
Obsession and the horror of a stolen self
A review of Curry Barker's breakout film.
Pokémon Champions: The new home of competitive Pokémon
Pokémon Champions lands on mobile and Nintendo Switch.
Making smartphones cinematic: The Park Chan-wook Way
How Park Chan-wook makes smartphones cinematic.
Supergirl: Uncovering a different side of hope through shared grief
While Supergirl is not a groundbreaking movie, it is still quite enjoyable and a solid entry in the DCU.
Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin is the perfect prologue to the epic sagas of Gundam
Why Gundam: The Origin is the perfect entry point
Witchwave: The sound of digital dissociation
“Witchwave” is less a fixed genre and more an umbrella term that dissolves into adjacent microgenres—witch house, dark wave, dream pop, and other fragments of electronic sounds.
Fancy That: PinkPantheress shows less is more
What Fancy That ultimately demonstrates is something more interesting than simple artistic evolution: It shows an artist making peace with her own instincts.
A foreign vlogger’s guide to discovering Dhaka
Come for the fuchka, stay for the shock content, and collect millions of views
The rise of rage bait entertainment
Ever wondered why so many people keep complaining about shows and games they indulge in, yet refuse to put down?
Invincible is not really a superhero show
Why Invincible is more than a superhero show
Before Ice and Fire: The stories that forged George R R Martin
Here are some of George R R Martin's best works.
Fleabag: It’ll pass, but we’re still not past her
Fleabag's raw portrayal of loneliness and intimacy.
Mortal Kombat II: A sequel that finally gets Mortal Kombat right
A thrilling sequel that embraces its roots.
Project Hail Mary’s love letter to the wonders of scientific pursuit
Project Hail Mary suggests that cooperation for stewardship and pioneering advances for the collective are the ultimate bridge between cultures.
Bait redefines what representation ought to look like
Bait is a brilliantly written, poignant, and relatable story that manages to interweave the narrative and characters in a web of ironic brilliance.