Does Anyone Have The Right to Philosophy?
The Right to Sex addresses an array of social and ethical issues, but what do they reveal about the metaphilosophical stance her writing embodies?
Serve, Smash, Scheme, Repeat
The film—flirting with ideas ranging from power to subjugation, capitalism to expansionism, greatness to desire—is far from a straightforward sports picture.
Eternal Storm of the Clouded Mind
David Freyne’s Eternity starts with a premise that sounds like a thought experiment invented to criticize Nietzsche’s eternal recurrence.
The Department of Pedagogical Failure
In its refusal to resolve, After the Hunt feels less like a typical thriller and more like life: incomplete, irreducible, and frighteningly alive.
Allegory of the Man Cave
The audience can’t help but stare and laugh and squirm as Craig grapples with the loneliness threatening to tear his life apart.
On Paraphrasing Primates and Platonic Plagiarism
Since humankind creates literature, we know that literature is inevitably imbued with human truths and concerns.
An Unhinged Upheval
Imagine The Social Network’s twin-tech trickery meets Inglourious Basterds with a pinch of Get Out, and you’re somewhere in the ballpark of Sinners.
Commodified Freedom
“It’s all about sex.” It’s a tagline and mantra. Sex sells, dominates, and defines us. The aphorism has been recycled so often it now reeks of tired familiarity.
To Forgo Truffaut
Warfare has barely any characters to speak of, no arcs, and no anchors. They are silhouettes, pulses, steady gazes, and trembling fingers on triggers.
The Dive Bar of Eternal Youth
The bar is charmingly rough around the edges, where the walls feel like they’ve absorbed sweat and spilled drinks over countless unforgettable nights.
The War on “Woke”
The reactionary right does not need to define what “woke” means. The definition shifts, elastic enough to ensnare any movement, any critique, any person who dares to suggest that the status quo is anything less than just.
Does Could Imply Should?
A Minecraft Movie was perhaps inevitable. The world’s bestselling game, defined by its limitless possibilities, was bound to attract Hollywood’s attention.
The Wealth of Unicorns
In the world of finance, a unicorn is something to be caught, dissected, and monetized. In Death of a Unicorn, Alex Scharfman takes this premise to a grotesquely literal conclusion.
Seduction by Contradiction
To call Opus a critique of celebrity culture is to reduce it. It does not merely criticize. It embodies, extends, and ultimately deranges the phenomenon.
Pledging Allegiance: Brotherhood, Beer, and The Making of Men
Misogyny is not an instinct. It is an education. For many, fraternities provide it.
A Paradox of Performance
FINNEAS embodies a melancholic observer of love and fame. Can a song about lonely souls survive when sung by thousands?
Maroon Pilled: A Culture of Choice
This is modern conservatism’s cultural posture: not an inheritance, but a choice, a rejection of complexity in favor of ideological comfort.
Aesthetics of a Sunburnt Sound
DIVE leaves one imagining vignettes of summertime love and longing, recalling memories of a misspent youth.