Adult animation is a cesspit. It’s a genre built upon little more than pure shock value, favoring vulgarity over subtlety or quality art design. I, myself, have long since given up traversing this cavernous...

Throughout the years, dozens of sci-fi stories have given us terrifying scenarios in which robots and artificial intelligence wreak havoc upon humanity: IRobot, Ex Machina, and more recently, The Mitchells...

30 years ago, at the height of the West Coast’s domination in rap, a group of nine elite emcees emerged from Staten Island’s underground to bring rap back to the east. Founded by cousins RZA, GZA,...

With so many fantastic films to choose from, it’s hard to pick just 10 standouts from 2022. I simply don’t have room to spotlight honorable mentions such as X, Three Thousand Years of Longing, and...

In 2004, a lonely Las Vegas youth decided to stop singing in the back-room of his diner job and begin putting himself out there. That man was Brendon Urie. Over the next 19 years, he became one of the...

“I would like to make a movie to tell children ‘it’s good to be alive,’” -Hayao Miyazaki Those words belong to one of the greatest animation directors the world has ever known and speak to the...

There’s something so frustrating about the existence of a fancy restaurant as a middle-class person, serving minuscule portions as “courses” and expecting you to follow a particular dress code. Mark...

When the term “neo-noir” is mentioned, Knives Out is what pops into my mind. Switch out the dark offices for a massive mansion, switch out the main character being a brooding P.I. for the most comical...

For the last 13-years, Avatar was a joke—a movie that had cultural impact for the year it came out then faded away. Mere days after the film passed $1 billion at the box offices, James Cameron announced...

Stop-motion truly is the one form of art that remains timeless, and it is one for all ages. However, stop-motion is also a hit-or-miss form of art. Not every film can be a Henry Selick masterpiece. One...

Haley Seymour, Editor in Chief - Over the summer, I read The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid. This story follows Monique Grant, a reporter for Vivant magazine, who is contacted by...

I fell in love with movies when I was 14 years old. They were everything to me, a magical form of escapism where anything is possible. In my mind, only cinema could show you a machine gun-toting raccoon...