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Adrian Tomine's The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist was a masterclass in autobiographical comics, blending self-deprecating humor with genuine emotional depth.
Max Calloway · 2026-05-18
Hayao Miyazaki retired, then un-retired, then released The Boy and the Heron at age 82, and it won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.
Jordan Blake · 2026-05-18
For roughly 15 years, hating Nickelback was a cultural pastime.
Sophie Chen · 2026-05-18
Fabric in Farringdon has been the beating heart of London's electronic music scene since 1999.
Max Calloway · 2026-05-18
When Billie Eilish released Hit Me Hard and Soft in May 2024, she made one decision that felt genuinely radical in the streaming era: no singles.
Leo Marchetti · 2026-05-18
Hidetaka Miyazaki's influence on video games is so pervasive that an entire genre bears his creative fingerprint.
Nina Vasquez · 2026-05-17
Wong Kar-wai makes films about loneliness, desire, and missed connection that are simultaneously the most stylish and most emotionally honest things in cinema.
Alex Sterling · 2026-05-17
If you want to understand why the world feels like it is accelerating toward chaos, start with Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens.
Ethan Park · 2026-05-17
In 2023, Chappell Roan was playing to half-empty rooms on a support tour.
Jordan Blake · 2026-05-17
Every few years, someone publishes an obituary for art house cinema.
Sophie Chen · 2026-05-17
The gaming headset market has a design problem.
Nina Vasquez · 2026-05-17
Mac DeMarco did not just make music.
Alex Sterling · 2026-05-17
When ustwo Games released the original Monument Valley in 2014, it reframed what a phone game could be.
Jordan Blake · 2026-05-17
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross reshaped what film scoring could sound like, and their work on Challengers might be their peak.
Ryan Okafor · 2026-05-17
Sabrina Carpenter spent years as a Disney Channel actress and minor pop curiosity before 2024 turned her into one of music's most entertaining figures.
Jordan Blake · 2026-05-17
HBO's The Penguin did something radical with the comic book genre: it made a show about a supervillain that felt more like The Sopranos than the MCU.
Max Calloway · 2026-05-17
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The video essay has quietly become the internet's most significant original art form.
Max Calloway · 2026-05-16
Netflix's comedy library is enormous and inconsistent.
Leo Marchetti · 2026-05-16
Daniel Caesar didn't reinvent R&B so much as remind it what it was capable of.
Leo Marchetti · 2026-05-16
Nobody predicted that a film about a Brooklyn sex worker who marries a Russian oligarch's son would win the Palme d'Or at Cannes, earn over $35 million theatrically, and launch its lead actress into the Oscar conversation.
Ryan Okafor · 2026-05-16