Best Biographies and Memoirs 2022
Human connection, learning from other people, and delving deeply into people’s stories are all part of what helps us grow,…
Movies
The Beauty of Movie Soundtracks Doesn’t Fade Over Time
Anyone who has ever sat through the credits of their favorite films and sees hundreds of names scroll past can…
Your Guide to the New Canon of Star Wars Books & Comics
Star Wars inspires a love that can border on obsession. There are plenty of fans for whom the movies aren’t…
10 Offbeat and Groundbreaking Musicals in the Criterion Collection
Singing and dancing…what’s not to love? Though the genre has had its ups and downs in film history, there’s a…
Essential Sci-Fi & Fantasy Films in the Criterion Collection
The Criterion Collection professes to bring together “important classic and contemporary films,” and it doesn’t discriminate based on genre snobbery. Recognizing…
11 Eclectic New Additions to the Criterion Collection
For decades, the Criterion Collection has been the gold standard when it comes to the preservation and presentation of classic,…
Never Give Up, Never Surrender: 20 Years of Galaxy Quest
In 2019, watching a fascinating sci-fi film or series is as easy as firing up your smart TV or cell…
Why You Should Be Excited Netflix Is Turning Jeff Smith’s Bone into an Animated Series
I figured it wasn’t going to be my thing. Bone, the Jeff Smith comedy/drama/fantasy comic book epic, was already considered…
A Reading List Inspired by the 20th Anniversary of The Matrix (and That Sequel Announcement)
Speaking of: last month, Lana Wachowski announced she had started work on a fourth Matrix film, working from a script…
Twenty Years of The Iron Giant
Unfortunately, the audiences in question were very small—though the movie is justifiably beloved in 2019, its initial impact was limited:…
Discover J. Michael Straczynski’s Origin Story in the Bold Memoir Becoming Superman
The celebrity memoir is among the most unpredictable of sub-genres, their existence predicated less on the quality of story to…
10 Amazing Recent Additions to the Criterion Collection
The Criterion Collection has long been known for offering a world-class presentation of its carefully curated library of films from…
A Graphic Novel for All 22 Movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe
The Endgame is upon us: the fourth Avengers movie opens tonight, both the 22nd film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe in…
Your Essential Marvel Cinematic Universe Reading List, 2019 Edition
Sure, you can see a comic book movie without doing your homework first. But we wouldn’t recommend it. It’s another…
The 7 Scariest Stories to Tell in the Dark
This August, the worst nightmares of a generation will come to life in the film adaptation of Scary Stories to…
The Artemis Fowl Movie Trailer Is Here! Get Excited!
There’s a trailer for the new Artemis Fowl movie, and my friends, it looks amazing. I’m screaming in delight—and you…
10 Essential New Additions to the Criterion Collection
The Criterion Collection represents a high-water mark in film restoration and presentation, selecting movies of the highest caliber and offering…
10 Fantasy Books to Pair with Your Favorite Halloween Movies
Your spine tingles. The floor creaks. Someone—something!—taps on the windowpane. There, on the chilled night air, a wolf sings out…
5 Plausible Science Fiction Novels in the Spirit of First Man
That intersection between reality and such a perfectly plausible—but incredibly rare or difficult—scenario is where the movement known as “mundane…
John Bellairs Opened the Doorway for a Generation of Dark Fantasy Readers
In books with a creep factor that far outstrips their suggested reading level, John Bellairs introduced an entire generation of…