Dads on film
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Stereotypes abound when it comes to “dad movies”: Dads love war movies, so the culture tells us. Dads like films about history in general: knights …
Category: Movie Reviews
Home away from home
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
The 2020 film Minari, from South Korean writer/director Lee Isaac Chung, is a deft, affecting example of the notion that cultures are often best …
Watch an ASMR massage video and thank me later
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
I remember the day I watched my first ASMR video.
I stumbled across the concept in a podcast. The hosts described a YouTube genre made …
Hem-meh-way
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
It’s hard to imagine what more can be said about Ernest Hemingway. Born in Illinois in 1899, died by self-inflicted gunshot in Idaho in 1961, …
Oops! What have we done to Britney?
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
When The New York Times-produced documentary Framing Britney Spears hit FX and Hulu earlier this year it captivated audiences, but not in the way …
Red Pilled
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
“The minute God crapped out the third caveman a conspiracy was hatched against one of them.”
— Col. Hunter Gathers, OSS (ret., also fictitious)
QAnon …
True Crime
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Aristotle thought long and hard about the nature of wickedness — specifically, the moral nature of ill deeds performed knowingly or unknowingly. In his Nicomachean …
The Swedish Forrest Gump — with dynamite
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
The literature and cinema of the Scandanavian countries has enjoyed a robust yet still niche following in the U.S. for some time — seemingly specializing …
‘Nomadland’ is a pensive portrait of economic and social dislocation
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
It’s unclear what critics mean when they say Nomadland is a film that mingles joy and sorrow. There is very little of the former and …
The future in black and white
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
What would you do with tomorrow’s newspaper today? This is the narrated theme that opens each episode of Early Edition, a four-season show that …
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