September 2022 Archives

With the Sustain series, ambient artists repurpose old and unused material, with uniformly excellent results.

When technology becomes so fast, powerful, and ubiquitous as to essentially become invisible to its users, what trade-offs have we (unknowingly) made?

It is arrogant to believe that purpose of the universe was to bring about carbon-based sentient lifeforms, i.e., us (human beings).

After this recent incident, I’m forced to consider how many of my childrearing plans might just be my projecting my own nerdiness on to my children in a curious form of objectification.

As a culture, we enjoy the spectacle and self-righteousness too much, and reality TV finds it too profitable to do anything but feed that.

I would suspect that the “horror” genre is one of the most unpopular genres — literary, cinematic, or otherwise — for Christians, and understandably so.

This isn’t the first time that gruesome, violent footage has made it into a primetime news broadcast.

Apple got a promotion for their device that was rooted in the here and now, in the reality of a heightened Super Bowl moment.

This documentary about the indie Christian band has the requisite rock n’ roll drama, but also offers some deeper ruminations on faith and art.

The series’ opening credits are a clever, and meaningful, Tolkien deep cut.

Parallel Love worked on multiple levels for me: as a nostalgia-filled document of an important era …

I didn’t like this as much as the first season. I like fantastical world building, but it felt like…

Wicked City tells a compelling story with style to spare, but its body horror and sexual violence is probably too much for most viewers (myself included).

Accusations of “wokeness” are fascinating, not because I agree with them, but because of the semblance of legitimacy that surrounds them.

Detective Benoit Blanc’s latest case begins streaming on Netflix this December.

During the early-to-mid ’00s, Newtype USA served up all of the anime coverage an American otaku could want, and then some.

The first release from former members of The Revolutionary Army of the Infant Jesus is in support of Ukrainian refugees.