May 31, 2025 Movies Cultural Diet The Grand Budapest Hotel by Wes Anderson (2014) This week’s release of The Phoenician Scheme inspired me to go back and fill in this particular gap…
May 31, 2025 Literature Cultural Diet There Is No Antimemetics Division by Qntm (2025) Thanks to social media, we all know what memes are: ideas that get stuck in our head and go viral b…
May 30, 2025 Nerdery Pop Culture TV When Reading Rainbow Went Where No One Has Gone Before In 1988, Reading Rainbow and Star Trek: The Next Generation had one of the greatest crossovers of all time.
May 30, 2025 Movies Review Roundup: Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme Critics respond to Wes Anderson’s latest highly stylized cinematic endeavor.
May 28, 2025 TV Cultural Diet Andor, Season Two (2025) With its multiple time skips and various storylines, Andor’s second and final season is undoubtedly…
May 28, 2025 Music “Glad” by Saint Etienne Watch the video for the first single from the dance-pop trio’s final album, due out this September.
May 27, 2025 Music Rumours of Angels by Revolutionary Army of the Infant Jesus (Review) This collection of the enigmatic outfit’s earlier, more experimental material is raw and otherworldly.
May 26, 2025 Movies Akira Kurosawa’s Ran Is Returning to Theaters for Its 40th Anniversary An extensive collector’s edition of Kurosawa’s Shakespearean epic will also be released in Europe.
May 24, 2025 Movies Cultural Diet An Eye for an Eye by Steve Carver (1981) An Eye for an Eye is a pretty routine Chuck Norris flick. Norris plays San Francisco detective Sean…
May 22, 2025 Movies Cultural Diet Dudes by Penelope Spheeris (1987) Bored with their lives in New York City, three punk rockers decide to start over in California. But…
May 22, 2025 Movies Review Roundup: Christopher McQuarrie’s Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning Critics respond to Ethan Hunt’s final mission (for now).
May 20, 2025 Music “You Have Cured a Million Ghosts From Roaming in My Head” by Aarktica Aarktica’s debut album is getting the 25th anniversary treatment from Projekt Records.
May 19, 2025 TV Cultural Diet The Expanse, Season One First of all, there’s no denying that The Expanse’s first season was beset by budgetary constraints…
May 19, 2025 Music Watch Starsabout’s Dobra 12 Live Session This recent live set is a perfect showcase for the Polish band’s dreamy, melancholy sound.
May 18, 2025 Movies Cultural Diet Once Upon a Time in the West by Sergio Leone (1968) The first word that immediately comes to mind when reflecting on Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time in…
May 17, 2025 Opus News New Subscriber Playlist: “For All Good Naysayers” This month’s subscriber-only playlist and podcast episode celebrate Sufjan Stevens’ considerable music catalog.
May 16, 2025 TV Cultural Diet Love, Death & Robots, Season Four by Various Artists (2025) As with most anthologies, this is a mix of hits and duds. Unfortunately, this season starts off wea…
May 16, 2025 Music “Calm Under Pressure” by ASC The drum n’ bass producer exchanges his usual breakbeats for darker ambient techno stylings.
May 14, 2025 Anime Cultural Diet Appleseed by Kazuyoshi Katayama (1988) Along with Black Magic M-66, Bubblegum Crisis, and Project A-Ko, Kazuyoshi Katayama’s adaptation of…
May 14, 2025 Music “Monty Donahue” by Unwed Sailor The band’s sixth album in seven years is a collection of lean, mean instrumental post-rock.