Reviews

The Japanese title of the anime movie A Whisker Away, now on Netflix, translates to Wanting to Cry, I Pretend to Be a Cat. That original version is both more...

D.A. Pennebaker’s film Original Cast Album: “Company” has been a curio for decades. The 1970 documentary, which captured the recording of the original cast album to Stephen Sondheim’s musical Company,...

In quality, 2019’s Doom Patrol TV series was up there with HBO’s Watchmen. Its comic-book parent...

When the Dragnet radio series moved to television in 1951, creator Jack Webb launched what would become one of the medium’s most enduring genres: the police procedural. The show established...

Terminal teens have become fairly common in contemporary young-adult romances, from The Fault in Our Stars (Shailene Woodley has cancer, falls in love with Ansel Elgort), to Me and Earl...

Few games have ever been as focused as Valorant, the new free-to-play, competitive first-person shooter from Riot Games. The company has wisely decided to shove just about everything that isn’t...

David Koepp is one of the most successful screenwriters currently working. His credits include two decades’ worth of franchise-defining blockbusters, like the first installments of the Jurassic Park, Mission: Impossible,...

The introduction to Spike Lee’s Netflix movie Da 5 Bloods flashes through archival footage of key moments from the Vietnam War and the American civil rights movement of the 1960s...

It’s often hard to recommend older games these days. There’s usually a sequel, re-imagining, or spiritual successor that has finessed the controls, updated the style, or overhauled the whole package...

Shonen Jump’s prize series from 2019, Spy x Family, is finally hitting shelves in a paperback that compiles the first few chapters of the series. If you haven’t already manically...