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Bonhomie and irritation. What year is it (#638)?
The Odyssey is an overwhelming and astonishing film.
Craft aside, The Odyssey is an artistic failure.
M’oniqua (formerly known as Monica) meets a new friend from France.
If you don’t like getting booed, play better.
There are better Iranian films than Reading Lolita in Tehran.
Nostalgia can be avoided, but pop culture shapes our lives whether we like it or not.
The Disney+ era of The Simpsons has been consistently painful and disappointing.
A 2017 Juxtapoz interview with artist Nathaniel Mary Quinn vs. a 2025 Isolated Nation interview with filmmaker Payal Kapadia.
A great recent anthology of nature poetry by writers from the global majority.
The Atlantic, as always, wallows in self-indulgence.
Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass is a movie you can sit and watch, an unfortunately rare distinction for film comedy in the 2020s.
Foreign Tongues is one of their greatest albums.
Bringing King Arthur into the 21st century.
The socialists are giving the Republican Party a great gift.
Embracing joy amidst summer’s laments.
Sudan’s experiencing the worst humanitarian crisis in the world right now.
Lunchables changed lunch in the 1990s.
Gripe-Wing America.
Lindsey Graham’s Odyssey and the Backrooms of Theseus.
Let them know we are coming for them.
Not an outrage, not a good idea, just a tiresome third thing.
Road trips remind you that we live in a weird and wonderful world.
Aside from Israel, Democrats are only divided about communication strategies.
Kermode talks at length about Christopher Nolan's latest film.
One of the best impressions ever performed on Saturday Night Love, first aired on May 11, 1996.
The legendary musician on "Down and Out," "Living Forever," and the "period piece" album And Then There Were Three.
The legendary director on Robert Altman, Steven Spielberg, Rob Zombie, Eli Roth, David Cronenberg, and more.
The actress on how she really feels about her character in the 2008 Hollywood hipster classic (500) Days of Summer.
The actress talks about what the set of Sex and the City was really like and more in this new interview.
Lewinsky talks double standards, slut shaming, and how she reclaimed her narrative.
The actress talks about Titanic and her co-star in this 1997 TFI Friday interview.
The breakout star of 10 talks about Blake Edwards, Marlon Brando, and animal rights.
The singer ends At the Drive-In's set only three songs in by admonishing the audience and calling them robots and sheep.
The Oscar-winning actress talks about her tumultuous personal life in this contentious interview.