recap
The Pink Opaque Season 6, Episode 1 - "Escape From The Midnight Realm"
The show's first episode in nine months is a bold break from its usual.
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Why you should care if movie theaters survive
What would we lose if we lost sitting in a dark room and watching a big screen together?
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Evil Does Not Exist and the rise of early climate fiction
The new film channels climate anxiety as well as anything I've seen, while never once mentioning climate change.
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May mailbag!
This month: Thelma & Louise, sound design nerds, M/M romance, and why I might be a train grandpa.
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How to be effectively Lynchian
A bevy of recent films have David Lynch vibes without resorting to being slavish imitations or parodies.
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Immaculate and horror's increasingly brazen death cults
Why are horror movies so obsessed with cults trying to end the world? Well........
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Dune: Part 2 and (trans)gender prophecies
Why is Dune 2 so speaking to the dolls? Let's find out!
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My top 21 movies of 2023
It was a great year for movies. Here are a bunch that made it so.
25 minutes on
25 minutes on... Lisa Frankenstein
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February mailbag!
This month: What are Emily's thoughts on all the Oscar contenders? Also: Emily tries to remember what she meant by a thing she wrote several years ago.
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Forever 2014
What we get mad about when we get mad about Barbie's Oscar snubs
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How Edward Yang's Yi Yi helps you keep track of over a dozen major characters
The 2000 masterpiece perfectly juggles an enormous number of characters.