Sundance 2022: ‘After Yang’ infuses Kogonada’s minimalist melancholy with futilistic futurism

Directed by Kogonada (Columbus), After Yang stars Colin Farrell, Jodie-Turner Smith, Haley Lu Richardson, and Justin H. Min. It’s part of the Spotlight features at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. After Yang comes into the picture about as quietly and…

How ‘Community’ and ‘Station Eleven’ capture our finite time together

Spoilers for Community and Station Eleven below When Donald Glover left Community, I cried. Never mind that I was watching the show in 2017, two years after its finale and three years after Troy sails away with LeVar Burton in “Geothermal…

7 Shows to watch after finishing ‘Station Eleven’

In one of the most devastatingly beautiful, heart-achingly optimistic endings of television in ages, HBO’s Station Eleven debuted its final episode last week, rounding out a tremendous, all-timer season of television. While bidding farewell to Kirsten (Mackenzie Davis & Matilda…

5 Rivals-to-Lovers Stories to Read After Watching the Hating Game

The long anticipated film adaptation of The Hating Game was released yesterday, and readers rejoiced! This novel has often been praised as a modern classic, a legendary rivals-to-lovers romance. Rivals-to-lovers is a specific type of romance that we don’t see…

‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife’ review: A return to what makes bustin’ ghosts so fun

If someone were to probe into my history with the Ghostbusters franchise, they wouldn’t have to dig very far. I enjoyed the first film, like many of us have, (there is a reason it is iconic), but the second is…

A (Spoiler-Free) Beginner’s Guide to ‘The Wheel of Time’

The Wheel of Time turns, and an adaptation comes to pass. Looking at the 14-book series by the late Robert Jordan (with the final 3 books completed by Brandon Sanderson), it’s easy to feel intimidated. I know I was when…

100 Best Video Game Soundtracks Of All Time

No, it’s not just your nostalgia talking. While video games have, as millions of elders have articulated over the years, “come such a long way since Pac-Man,” so too has its music in the form of OSTs or Original Soundtrack…