Jan 10, 2026 Movies John Woo’s Action Classics Are Coming to American Theaters This Year Hard Boiled, A Better Tomorrow, and The Killer have limited screenings in January, March, and April.
Jan 8, 2026 Movies Cultural Diet Sword of Silence by Reese Cleveland (2025) Plot-wise, Sword of Silence is close to inscrutable at times, as a black-clad figure wanders silent…
Jan 8, 2026 Music “Teenage Sadness” by The Julies The post-punk outfit deliver a lush ode to teen angst and nostalgia.
Jan 8, 2026 Music “Designed to Lose” by The Twilight Sad Listen to the latest single from the Scottish noise rockers’ upcoming album.
Jan 7, 2026 Comics Cultural Diet North Bend, Volume One by Ryan Ellsworth, Rob Carey, and Pablo De Bonis (2021) Given everything that’s going on with the U.S. right now — masked thugs disappearing and killing pe…
Jan 7, 2026 Comics Cultural Diet Arcana Royale by Cullen Bunn and A. C. Zamudio (2025) Hudson Tremaine may possess seemingly supernatural luck at the casino tables in Vegas, but she’s ne…
Jan 7, 2026 Opus News Supporting Opus in 2026 If you enjoy reading Opus, then there are several ways that you can support my efforts.
Jan 6, 2026 Best of Opus Religion Concerning Philip Yancey’s Adultery All instances of infidelity are painful, and even more so when it’s by a respected figure of the faith who ought to know better.
Jan 6, 2026 Music “Ocean Became Light” by Dirk Serries Expertly crafted drones that are just as ominous and foreboding as they are beautiful and entrancing.
Jan 5, 2026 Movies Cultural Diet Predator: Badlands by Dan Trachtenberg (2025) 2022’s Prey expanded the Predator franchise into an 18th-century Native American setting, which gav…
Jan 5, 2026 Opus News Opus in Numbers (2025 Edition) 2025 exceeded all expectations, both in terms of my own personal productivity and the site’s activity.
Jan 4, 2026 Literature Cultural Diet The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy (1905) I’ll be honest, I had always disregarded The Scarlet Pimpernel based on its title alone. But then I…
Jan 3, 2026 Movies Cultural Diet The Shadow’s Edge by Larry Yang (2025) For the record, I haven’t kept up with Jackie Chan’s recent films. I think I tried watching 2023’s …
Jan 3, 2026 Comics Literature Movies Personal TV My Cultural Diet (December 2025): Lord of the Rings, Wake Up Dead Man, One Battle After Another, Angel’s Egg, Tron: Ares A quick rundown of last month’s cultural experiences.
Jan 2, 2026 TV Cultural Diet Pluribus, Season One (2025) After an unusual alien invasion converts the vast majority of humanity into a hive mind, Earth is n…
Jan 2, 2026 Best of Opus Literature Technology Companies Like Palantir and Sauron Co-Opt Tolkien’s Writings for Their Misguided Branding Tech companies want to harness the mythic-ness of Tolkien’s legendarium while giving nary a thought to its values and meaning.
Jan 1, 2026 TV Cultural Diet Stranger Things, Season Five (2025) There was absolutely no way that Stranger Things’ final season was going to answer every question a…
Jan 1, 2026 Best of Opus Music My Favorite Songs of 2025: Asunojokei, Natalie Bergman, Fine China, The Mary Onettes, Turnstile, Denison Witmer The year brought us Japanese blackgaze, introspective balladry, post-punk elegance, Swedish alt-rock, eclectic hardcore, heartfelt indie-folk, and much more.
Jan 1, 2026 TV January 2026’s Best Streaming Titles: The Blues Brothers, Indiana Jones, Heat, Depeche Mode, Star Trek Jake and Elwood, archaeological action, Michael Mann, synth-pop legends, Starfleet Academy, and more.