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10 predictions that could define 2026 — and upend expectations
Each January, I dust off the crystal ball and offer my top 10 predictions for the year ahead.…
Streaming and social costs
For the overwhelming majority of people whose families, jobs, and personal pursuits loom larger…
Stranger Things is the Happy Days of the COVID-19 era
Stranger Things was never meant to end like this, largely because it was never meant to go on…
The Force adrift – Washington Examiner
Looking back at it now, 10 years later, the warning signs were clear from the start — from the…
Ralph Lauren’s all-American cultural appropriation
After years of Scandinavian and Bauhaus-inflected minimalism, no-frills graphic design, and the…
Time must have a slop
The American republic is tottering toward its 250th birthday like a character in a Jimmy…
An undivided Kill Bill demands your undivided attention
The elusive original cut of Quentin Tarantino’s fourth and fifth films, known together as Kill…
Culture’s great subversion machine has broken down at last
Netflix just announced its next animated children’s film, “Steps,” a Cinderella inversion in…
The printed Disney
The Walt Disney Company has released some of the world’s finest animated short films and movies…
The decency of ‘Eyes Wide Shut’
In all the words that have been devoted to the films of Stanley Kubrick, I do not know whether…
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