Monday Digest
You Can See Everything and the queasy duality of Elizabeth Holmes
Plus: Rachel Gillig's latest duology, Boorman and the Devil, and some great horror movies.
digger
Digger, explained
What's behind the backlash? And the backlash to the backlash? And the backlash to the backlash to the backlash? And the--
John Wilson
How to make a movie with John Wilson
Carolyn Wang — making their Episodes debut! — on what makes John Wilson's films humane in an age of artificiality.
books
On Exit Party and being a time traveler
Emily St. John Mandel's new novel asks us how we can hold onto our pasts without falling into poisonous nostalgia.
Resident Evil
Resident Evil's world doesn't care about you
The best cosmic horror in years? In a video game movie directed by Zach Cregger? It's more likely than you think
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, or learning to love your own horniness
Jane Schoenbrun's new film is about a very common trans experience. And a very common human experience too.
The Vampire Lestat
The Vampire Lestat really could have used a frame narrative
The show's chaotic structure was fascinating, but would it have killed someone to just interview that damn vampire??
Charli xcx
The three deaths of Charli xcx's Music, Fashion, Film
Brat Summer isn't coming back, and that's okay.
the odyssey
The City Burners
Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey reimagines one of our oldest stories for a world on the brink of ending.
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: Episode 6, "The Morrow"
"A true knight always finishes a story."
Disclosure Day
Disclosure Day is about what we refuse to know
Spielberg's latest is oddly naïve, except when it's about me, specifically.
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: Episode 5, "In the Name of the Mother"
"What if this is the best there is?"