Warning: contains spoilers for Black Mirror season 7 episode 4 “Plaything.” You have to admit, the man has a point. Peter Capaldi’s “Plaything” character may have spent the last four decades tripping balls in a funky-smelling attic while serving as a wide-eyed acolyte for a bunch of potentially murderous Tamagotchi, but he’s right about human violence; look […]
Black Mirror Season 7 Episode 5 Review: Eulogy
This article contains spoilers for the Black Mirror episode “Eulogy.” Wait, was that the best episode of Black Mirror ever? That thought incepted itself into my brain once credits began to roll on “Eulogy,” the fifth episode of Black Mirror‘s seventh season. Eventually, that thought trickled its way back out. There are better Black Mirror […]
Black Mirror Season 7 Episode 6 Review – USS Callister: Into Infinity
This article contains spoilers for the Black Mirror episode “USS Callister: Into Infinity.” Throughout its seven-season run, Black Mirror has covered a lot of ground. From sapphic digital afterlives to video game haunted houses to fulfillment center post-apocalypses, Charlie Brooker’s sci-fi/horror anthology has a penchant for boldly going where few have gone before. Still, even […]
Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza Want to Reinvent the War Movie with Something Radical: Truth
When Alex Garland first worked with Ray Mendoza, he was immediately struck by the latter’s precision and intuitive storytelling instincts. At the time, the pair were collaborating on Civil War, Garland’s blistering speculative fiction about, perhaps, the direction things could head in the U.S. Garland wrote and directed that movie, but Mendoza gave the violence […]
The Wheel of Time Season 3 Just Changed the Fate of Two Key Characters
This article contains The Wheel of Time spoilers. At this point in The Wheel of Time television series, fans have become accustomed to the considerable liberties the show has taken to adapt the sprawling fantasy epic to the screen. But while some changes to the chronology and the locations are undoubtedly justifiable in this compressed […]
Dune 3: Robert Pattinson Could Be Getting His Ultimate Weirdo Role
This article contains potential spoilers for Dune 4 and Dune 5. By this point, Robert Pattinson has firmly established himself as one of our great weirdo actors. In the past 15 years, he’s played a shut-in billionaire in Cosmopolis, a sinister and hallucinating wickie in The Lighthouse, an emo Dark Knight detective in The Batman, […]