As briefly teased in our 2020 Playback Film Awards post, today we offer deeper looks at some of this year’s more unique nominees. ACTRESS IN…
What follows, as it did last year, and the year before that, is what the Oscars would like like if a critics group consisting of…
Everyone knows the Adam Sandler schtick. His perennial persona is easily identified by a short list of generic traits: goofy, sarcastic, lazy, uncouth, and—perhaps most…
Earlier today, hundreds of puzzle enthusiasts from around the world gathered on the MIT campus to compete in the fortieth annual MIT Mystery Hunt, a…
A brief note: this article is a categorization of the theoretical work of these theorists, not of the theorists themselves. We might think of it…
HBO’s promotion of the new series Watchmen, which premiered on October 20, features an array of strategies and media objects, from the commonplace to the…
This past week in my class on race & media, I led a discussion about industrial discourses surrounding racial casting. We read Kristen Warner’s (2015)…
Earlier this week, Martin Scorsese elaborated on comments he made in October about Marvel films and the contemporary film industry. In the prime op-ed real…
For about two months in the year of 2018, I wanted nothing more than to become a skilled player of Tekken 7, the newest entry…
In the 22nd season premiere of the world’s most famous animated aardvark children’s TV show, Arthur’s teacher, Mr. Ratburn, married a man (well, technically, an…