By Alexander Stone In November 2013, comedy duo Key & Peele uploaded a sketch to YouTube in which two breakdance-circle hype men square off over…
By Sara Bright There is a peculiar silence at the heart of the global plastic crisis – the silence of 52.1 million metric tonnes of…
By Anne Fry Scroll past the algorithmically served hauls and the influencer-curated wardrobes and something unexpected is happening on TikTok. Creators are filming themselves wearing…
By Tessa Nolan The year 2024 was supposed to be a write-off. After the dual WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes shuttered writers’ rooms from May through…
By Alexander Stone The most dangerous building in the world is the one that exists only on paper. It has no budget overruns, no planning…
By Tessa Nolan By Tessa Nolan In February 2024, Dame Helen Mirren stood at the podium of the 37th Annual American Cinematheque Awards at the…
By Sara Bright When The Umbrella Academy returned to Netflix on 8 August 2024 for its fourth and final season, it carried the accumulated weight…
By Alexander Stone In January 2000, Hedy Lamarr died alone in Casselberry, Florida, at eighty-five. She had not appeared in a film since 1958. Her…
By Sara Bright There is a particular kind of longevity that Hollywood rewards and then punishes – the kind where a woman must constantly justify…
By Tessa Nolan In the summer of 1998, a white-label twelve-inch circulated through Ibiza and the Miami Winter Music Conference with no artwork, no marketing…