Free Solo, Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi’s 2018 documentary, was a visually stunning document of a truly impressive feat: Alex Honnold climbing the…
With the website formerly known as Twitter in shambles thanks to an emotionally and psychologically unstable billionaire, it’s hard to remember a time when…
As climate change continues its steady march toward apocalyptic crescendo, its devastating effects are becoming more and more visible. In 2022, the United States…
Early on in What Comes Around, Amy Redford’s sophomore feature (coming after a 15-year hiatus), it becomes clear that logic will be an absent…
Randall Park’s directorial debut, Shortcomings, is sure to draw immediate comparisons to Crazy Rich Asians, a film that made $238 million and was praised…
Neuroimaging studies of people who have recently experienced grief show that coping with death and loss significantly impacts human brain function. Voluntary actions, like…
As of last year, 50 million people around the world considered themselves influencers. Whether it be a Twitch streamer playing video games, a TikTok…
From Gwyneth Paltrow selling her vagina-scented candle that retails for a cool $70 to the Kardashians’ variety of extremely lucrative deals, influencer culture has…
With the flood of murder podcasts and documentaries seemingly never-ending, true crime as a genre is in need of a serious makeover. While such…
Teenagers are awful — that’s an objective truth. Throw in a hefty dose of economic privilege, and you’ve got the recipe for some real…
Let’s just get this out of the way: the most honest way to quantify Alex Lehmann’s Acidman is as thoroughly mid. The film stars…
If any company does brand recognition right, it’s Pornhub, launched in 2007 and now one of the largest purveyors of Internet pornography. Whether you’ve…
Society has always had something of a morbid curiosity with true crime. From Jack the Ripper and In Cold Blood to the near-constant stream…
From a certain angle, 2022 could be seen as the year of satire. There spectrum was vast, from the “high-brow,” like Ruben Östlund’s Palme…
Bar Fight! manages the impressive feat of being entirely unfunny for the whole of its runtime. The graveyard of sitcom stars who attempted a…