The X-Men have often been seen as an analogy for racist injustice. In the X-Men universe, mutants are hated and feared, just as ...

Over the last 20 years, a viral plague of zombie fiction has spread across the land.  From just a handful of zombie films ...

In Danny Boyle’s fantasy romcom Yesterday, failed singer/songwriter Jack Malik (Himesh Patel) wakes up one day to discover that he is the only ...

“Striking Vipers,” the first episode of Black Mirror season 5, is exploitation trash. That’s not entirely an insult. It’s a genre designation. Exploitation ...

When I was seven years old, I wanted to be Chewbacca. Friends and I would pretend to be different Star Wars characters, and ...

The trailer for HBO’s upcoming Watchmen TV series shows a bunch of vigilante’s with Rorschach-inspired masks chanting ominously. The teaser doesn’t provide much ...

“I became as a pure crystal submerged in a translucent sea, and I knew I had been awakened; I had TOUCHED the FACE ...

Adults often talk about young people as if they’re a different, distasteful species. College students are overly sheltered, afraid of new ideas, and ...

This article contains spoilers for Avengers: Endgame. Last Monday I was at the movie theater to see a preview screening. The parking lot ...

In action narratives, men are heroic, super-competent badasses who save their families and the world. In sitcoms, men are emotionally hamstrung Homer Simpson-esque ...

Is Villanelle an antihero? Killing Eve’ Villanelle (Jodi Comer) is a Russian assassin and all-around psychopath who loves high fashion and flamboyant murders. ...

Stephen King’s The Long Walk is a dystopian novel without a dystopia. The entire 1979 novel takes place during a walking contest to ...