Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai sees Jim Jarmusch integrating hip-hop atmosphere with samurai genre trappings to create a dorm-room favorite.
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Sam Mendes’ Best Picture winner is a flawed but evocative time capsule of ’90s middle-age anxiety.
From Jed Bartlet to CJ Cregg to Losh Lyman, we elect one of Aaron Sorkin’s quick-witted White House wonks from The West Wing to our Hall of Faces.
A look back at the movie that inadvertently launched a toxic movement & the TV series that better understood postmodern pain.
Twenty years after the show’s finale, we sit down to determine which of Deep Space Nine’s deep bench of great characters earns our favor.
Haley Joel Osment’s gripping performance elevated M. Night Shyamalan’s second feature to a horror masterpiece.
Our monthly TV podcast returns to find Bikini Bottom’s favored son for the twentieth anniversary of Nick’s seminal kid’s show.
Stanley Kubrick’s mercurial erotic drama gets some much-needed context thanks to one of Frank Ocean’s most infamous mixtapes.
The no budget fake documentary that ushered in the “found footage” craze still holds up, like it or not.
The film that made the Wachowskis a household name balanced dazzling special effects with a profound message about self-discovery.