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Bong Joon-ho's 'Mickey 17' Is a Bad Dot-Matrix Print Out
Review: In 'The Amateur,' Rami Malek Goes Full Galt After Rachel Brosnahan Gets Fridged
We've Lost Terry Pratchett
A Book Reader Explains the Plot Points in 'Dune 2' That Made No Sense To You
'Dune: Part Two' Is Why We Make Science Fiction Movies
Netflix Resurrected Horror Movie 'Deliver Us from Evil,' But Is It Worth Watching?
What the Hell Is 'One Piece'?
'Matrix Resurrections' Works Incredibly Well, Until It Doesn't
Review: 'Dune' Is a Spectacular Complement to the Novel But Can't Stand On Its Own
Review: Bruce Willis and Chad Michael Murray's 'Survive the Game' Is a Train Wreck
Review: The Extremely Inconsistent Time Travel Rules in 'Needle in a Timestack' Are Only One Irritant of Many
Review: Joe Carnahan's 'Copshop' Is Astonishingly Good
Review: Every Attempt to Describe 'Yakuza Princess' Make It Sounds Very Cool; It Is Not
Everything But the Story Works in Lisa Joy's Gorgeous and Disappointing 'Reminiscence'
'The Losers' Review: She's Volatile
'Cosmic Sin' Review: Frank Grillo And Bruce Willis Commit 'Cosmic Sin' In Sci-Fi Dumpster Fire
[Spoilers] 'The Tomorrow War' Review: Kyle Reese Did Not Die for This Crap
Review: Netflix's 'America: The Motion Picture' is a Very Special Kind of Bad
The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre that No One Remembered
Netflix Thriller 'Oxygen' Shoves You in a Box So You Can Brush Up Against Infinity
On Netflix: The Sci-Fi of 'Stowaway' Doesn't Pass the Sniff Test of an Elementary School Science Fair
The 12 Worst Insults to Food on the Internet Today
Outside the Wire Review: Wow. So Cinema. Such Deep
Review: George Clooney's Sci-Fi 'The Midnight Sky' Is Great, Except for the Science and the Fiction
Review: Useless Humans is a Useless Movie
The 2020 Hugo Novel Nominations Make for A Great Quarantine Reading List
Spoiler Review: Netflix's 'Freaks' Culminates In the Sorts of Moments Great Fiction is Made Of
Picard Review: The Star Trek We Need Right Now
'Doolittle' Review: More Like A Lotta Doo
Remembering Christopher Tolkien (1924-2020)
'Underwater' Review: Next Time I Hope Cthulhu Wins
Review: 'The Current War' Is Downright Embarrassing
'Gemini Man' Review: Uncle Kill and the Fresh Prince Star In Moron Clone Wars
Review: 'Downton Abbey' Is Back, Bitches
'I'm Sorry Dave': The Fracture Point Upon Which the AI Revolution Can Begin
Review: 'Stuber' is a Stubendously Stubid Movie
Review: In 'Annabelle Comes Home,' the Dolls Only Demonic Power Is the Jump Scare
The Political Economy of Thanos' Snap
'Alita: Battle Angel' Review: Manic Pixie Dream Murderbot
'The Prodigy' Review: Evil Will Hunting, This Is Not
Review: 'The Girl in the Spider's Web' Is Like Eating a Bowl of Cobwebs
Review: 'Hunter Killer' is a Miracle of Time and Space
'House with a Clock in its Walls' Review, or When a Passion Projects Lacks Passion
Review: 'The First Purge' is Sad and Tired
May the Fourth be With You: A Very Pajiba Happy Star Wars Day
Stephen Hawking Returns to the Darkness
'The Strangers: Prey at Night' Review: Dull, Pointless, Lazy
'Annihilation' Review: Spoilers, Analysis, and Explanation
Spoilers: 'Maze Runner: The Death Cure' Review, Ending Explained
Review: 'The Last Jedi' Is Not a Film of Tragedy But a Film of Hope
The Women Novelists Who Should Write the Final Season of 'Game of Thrones'
'Lore' TV Series Review: Amazon Prime's Adapation of the Podcast
Imre Nagy and the Hungarian Revolution
'Star Trek: Discovery' Is Actually Getting Worse
Review: "The Foreigner" Is Not What You're Expecting, and That Is To Its Credit
'Blade Runner 2049' Review: Emotionally Brilliant, Intellectually Shallow
Netflix Review 'Gerald's Game': Fear in a Handful of Dust
"Flatliners" Review: A Brain Dead Movie About Brain Death. How Meta!
The Disappointment of 'Star Trek: Discover'
'It' Review: Hail to the King
How Sheep Saved Civilization
How Twitter Enables Great Horror Stories
Writers Strike Averted, Television Saved
I Want to Believe: X-Files Gets Another Season
Review: 'Ghost in the Shell' Is A Brainless Movie About Brains in Machines
Spider-Man Trailer is Everything Right with the Marvel Cinematic Universe
The 'Justice League' Trailer Is Everything Wrong with the DC Cinematic Universe
'Life' Review: In Space No Can Hear Your Tedious Stupidity
What Norse Mythology Tells Us About Thor: Ragnarok
Race, Politics, and Three Barbershops in Two Countries
It Turns Out, Bill Maher Has Also Defended Sex with Minors
We Need to Talk About the Virulent Racism of "The Great Wall"
'A Cure for Wellness' Review: F*ck Off Verbinski, You Talentless Hack
And Today, It Starts
The Significance of the New Title for 'Star Wars: Episode VIII'
Carrie Fisher Has Died
'Rogue One': The Star Wars Story We've Always Wanted
Hope: Looking Back at Looking Forward in 2008
What's on Swedish Television as America Votes
If You Want to Know What Trump's America Might Look Like for Journalists, Look To Putin's Russia
Making Literature Accessible Through 'Mad Max: Fury Road'
'Inferno' Review: More Like Infernope, Amirite?
The Real Danger of Trump
Exposing the Pumpkin Spice Agenda
'Stranger Things' Theory: What Is the Thessalhydra?
Hell Is the Moment Between Cause and Effect
Happy Birthday 'Star Trek', Here's to Fifty More Years
'Stranger Things' and the Role of the Demogorgon
National Science Fiction Museum Convention This Weekend
'Warcraft' Review: Now That's Damned Good Fantasy. No, Seriously. I'm Surprised Too.
"Alice Through the Looking Glass" Review: The Best Part Was the Toddler Pooping in the Next Row
No, Polls Do Not Show Trump Beating Hillary
'Criminal' Review: Because Your Dream is Ryan Reynolds' Mind in Kevin Costner's Body
How an 18-Year-Old Video Game and a Transgender Character Just Reignited Gamer Gate
GIFs Have Been Cancelled, Effective Immediately
'10 Cloverfield Lane' Review: Finding Your Furiosa
'London Has Fallen' is a Small, Hateful, and Stupid Trump Campaign Press Release
'Risen' is the Modern Christian Take on 'CSI: Jerusalem'
The Russian Family Who Were Time Capsules in their Own Lifetimes
Is Hillary Clinton a Sorcerer?
Why So Many Copies Of Adolf Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' Are Suddenly Being Sold Again
The Positive Message the Anti-Government Protesters In Oregon Reinforce About the Internet
Why Idris Elba Being Black Makes 'The Dark Tower' Better
Science Fiction Thursday: 'Star Wars', SAG Awards, 'Red Mars'
News Media, the Passive Voice, and the Problem with Saying They 'Were Radicalized'
The Abandoned 'Land of Oz' Theme Park is the Creepiest
Fungal Genocide Destroys All Bananas. Cauliflower Remains Hideously Abundant.
All the Star Wars Tidbits To Shove In Your Tauntaun
Being Sick is Basically Sci-Fi Horror
The One Troubling Thing About 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens'
Science Fiction Thursday: 'Blade Runner 2', 'Logan's Run' Reboot, Plus Book and Movie Discussion
26 Cowardly, Unchristian Governors Now Refuse to Admit Syrian Refugees
How Netflix Changes Everything
Science Fiction Thursday: 'Star Trek' 50th Anniversary, 'Doctor Who' Crossover, Plus Book and Movie of the Week
Why Fallout 4 is the Most Disappointing Video Game of the Year
Why I Drink: Newsweek Headlines
The Official Pajiba Guide to Your Conception
Science Fiction Thursday: NASA Announcements, 'The Expanse', Plus Book and Movie of the Week
How Many MLB Players Hit a Home run on their First At Bat and Never Hit One Again?
The Most Important 'NCIS' and 'Bones' News You Will Ever Read
The Things You Know You Don't Know But Refuse to Look Up
Why You Should Stop Watching 'The Walking Dead'
Science Fiction Thursday: Tolkien Map, Vader Lenin Statues, Plus 'A Canticle for Leibowitz' and 'Iron Sky'
The Man Who Literally Moved a Mountain
Why Jess Was Rory's Best Boyfriend on 'The Gilmore Girls'
If You Eat Hot Dogs, You're Eating People
China's Most Popular Actress Throws Down With Tabloids
Science Fiction Thursday: All the Astronomy News Fit to Print
An Ode to the Wikipedia Random Page Link
Why the "Scientific Way to Cut Cake" is Completely Wrong
How the Speaker of the House Vote Just Got Awesome
Science Fiction Thursday: Nuking Mars, Actual Power Armor, and Ridley Scott Talks Water on Mars
Adolf Hitler's Godson and His Amazing True Story of Redemption
Steven Moffat (Wrongly) Defends the Sonic Sunglasses on 'Doctor Who'
Why Anger About the Race Card is Just Ignorance of Poker
'The Martian' Review: A Perfect Science Fiction Film
How NASA's Announcement of Water on Mars Changes 'The Martian'
Science Fiction Thursday: 'The Martian', 'X-Files', 'Attack on Titan'
What the Lost Colony of Roanoke Has to Do With 'The Martian'
Why Clickbait is Wonderful and How It Might Just Save Your Life
'Heroes Reborn': Real Time Review
Science Fiction Thursday: Alien Nuclear War, 'Weaveworld' Series, 'Jurassic World' Trilogy
'Minority Report': A Failure on Every Level
'Ascension' Review: The Best Science Fiction on Netflix That You Haven't Seen
What Science Fiction Television is Premiering This Week?
'Everest': An Interminable Slog of Mountain Porn
Science Fiction Thursday: 'Pacific Rim 2', 'Rogue Squadron', 'Blade Runner 2'
Why Marvel is Kicking DC's Ass
Review: Netflix's 'Narcos' and the Insufferable Voice-Over Narration
Science Fiction Thursday: 'Star Wars', 'Luna Park', and the Ennies
Ansel Elgort Edges Ahead of Miles Teller in Douche-lympics
Iceland, the Syrian Refugee Crisis, and the Unforgettable Photo of the Drowned Boy
'The Transporter: Refueled': No Statham, No Point
Why Science Fiction Matters
Everything You Need to Know About Denali and Mt. McKinley
'No Escape' Review: Political Violence as Tourism
The 110 Year Old Message in a Bottle
The Disgusting But Logical Implications of Star Trek Food Replication Technology
Why I Drink: Regal Cinemas Strip Search Edition
Nazi Money Train Discovered
Hackers Release that Stolen Ashley Madison Data
We Really Only Need the Down-Thumbs Buddy2
'The Man From UNCLE': Charismatic Actors, Incredibly Bad Script
The 'True Detective' Season Recap By Someone Who Doesn't Watch "True Detective"
What the "Deadpool" Trailer Doesn't Quite Get Right
Just How Badly 'Fantastic Four' and 'The Gift' Bombed: Math Edition
"The Gift" Review: Boring or Idiotic? Why Not Both?
A Guide to the 10 Candidates Appearing on Tonight's Republican Debate
How to Find Hope in the Cynicism of 'Veep' and the Republican Debates
The 'Wet Hot American Summer' Review for People Who Don't Understand 'Wet Hot American Summer'
'One-Minute Time Machine': The Best Five Minute Short Movie You'll Watch Today
Detroit Unveils Satanic Statue, World Doesn't End.
Harvard Predicts Dolphins Winning AFC East
"Self/Less" Review: Dull, Pointless, Stupid
Alec Mapa's 'Baby Daddy' Is Stand-Up Dramedy At Its Finest
Internal Affairs Is the Skyler White Police Procedurals
Review: Independence Day | Why'd They Have to Kill Space Opera?
'Terminator Genisys': CGI Yawns, But a Decent Story
'Max' Review: A Canine Emotional Snuff Film
Summer Sci-Fi Movie Club: 'Mr. Nobody' is Bizarre and Fantastic
HBO in Hotel Rooms: A Fundamental Human Right
Dreamcasting SyFy's "Hyperion"
Summer Sci-Fi Movie Club: 'The Machine' is Derivative and Decidedly Meh
Netflix's Blurbs Are Becoming Sentient and Sarcastic
'Star Wars' or How I Learned to Love Disney
Mysteries Lingering for the Second Season of 'Sense8'
'Jurassic World' Review: A Train Wreck of Morons and Bad CGI
Summer Sci-Fi Movie Club: 'Europa Report' is Perfect Hard Sci-Fi
Netflix's 'Sense8' Is Genre-breaking, Gorgeous and Transcendent
'Entourage' Review: Harmless Mediocrity
How the Internet Flattens Generations
The Year's Films Reimagined in the World of 'Mad Max'
Why Twitter Still Very Much Matters
Summer Sci-Fi Movie Club: 'Frequencies'
Why So Many People Watch Finales
Announcing Pajiba's Summer Sci-Fi Movie Club
"Tomorrowland" Review: Optimism Doesn't Make Up For Stupidity
Why You Should Go to the Movies Alone
Who Exactly Didn't Like Mad Max: Fury Road?
"Mad Max: Fury Road" Review: Oh What a Film, What a LOVELY Film
Taking the Christian Film 'Little Boy' to Its Logical Conclusion to Demonstrate Its Profound Absurdity
You, Too, Can Have an Expert Opinion on Margot Robbie's Harley Quinn Without Any Firsthand Knowledge
How China's Rise Changes Movies
Why International Markets Got 'Avengers: Age of Ultron' First
Why Are the Roads Always Wet in Movies?
Why Comic Book Nerds Hate 'Batman vs. Superman'
'Paul Blart 2': This Review Is Going Full Godwin
How Racist, Misogynist Bastards Are Gaming the Hugo Awards to Advance a Hateful Agenda
I Miss Baseball
Yet Another World's Oldest Woman Dies. Police Do Nothing.
Why the Government Needs Left Out of Fantasy
Science Fiction Thursday: ISIS & 'Star Wars', 'X-Files', and a Short Film
A Series of Tubes: 'CSI: Cyber' Review
'The Gunman' Review: A Smug, Misogynistic, and Idiotic 'Taken'
Why Our Characters Have to be Competent
On Pratchett and Beginnings and Endings
Well I'm Quite Taken With It: 'Run All Night' Review
'Jupiter Ascending 2' is Going to Be China's Fault
Why I Drink, We're All Going to Die Spam Edition
What We Lost When We Lost Leonard Nimoy
Jump Scares and Boredom: 'The Lazarus Effect' Review
Dear TV Writers: Enough with the Jazz Episodes, Already
The Oscar Interview Hollywood Doesn't Want You To See
The First Generation to Grow Old on the Internet
Why Are We Fascinated by Swords in Our Fiction?
The Reason Why Jon Stewart Is the Best Journalist of This Generation
'Jupiter Ascending' Review: Staggeringly Stupid
'Project Almanac' Review: A Terrible Movie but Time Travel's Shiny
Why We Love Con-Men
Sign Me Up For Solitary: How TV and Film Fail in Portraying Prison
Why 'The Nightly Show' is No 'Colbert Report'
'The Boy Next Door' Review: I Love Your Mother's Cookies
What 'Gilmore Girls' Tells Us About Homophobia Ten Years On
What Shailene Woodley's Character in 'Divergent' Could Learn from Captain Kirk
Why 'Agent Carter' Succeeds Where 'Agents of Shield' Failed
'Blackhat' Review: Thor is 'American Hacker'
I Declare This Canon: 'Jurassic Parks and Recreation'
B*tch Ranking 'Downton Abbey': The Art of Victorian Seduction
Why Your New Year's Resolutions Suck
'Twas the Night before Pajibmas
"Fireplace for Your Home" Real Time Review
Stephen Colbert Says Goodbye, Literally and a Lot, In the All-Star-iest Musical Finale Ever
The Worst Video Game Cutscene of the Year: "The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies" Review
The Official Pajiba Recap of 2014's Award Shows
Bieber God and Batman Moses Save The Day: "Exodus: Gods and Kings" Review
What 'Eaten Alive' and Zoos Have in Common
Einstein's Papers Digitized and Online
A Novel Lost and Re-Found: The Story of Irene Nemirovsky and 'Suite Française'
There's No Canonical Reason Stormtroopers Can't Be Black
What Puppies Would Best Represent the Cast of 'Game of Thrones'?
The Heartbreaking True Story Behind the Life and Death of Alan Turing, the Man at the Center of 'The Imitation Game'
Democracy, Thanksgiving, and Why You Shouldn't Unfriend Those Disagreeable Schmucks on Facebook
Not Even Spielberg Can Reboot 'The Last Starfighter'
Watch Ursula Le Guin's Wonderful National Book Awards Speech
'Interstellar' and the Ryan Leaf Theory of Movie Criticism
What You Should Read After Watching 'Interstellar'
What 'Ozymandias' Really Tells Us
Science Fiction at its Best: 'Interstellar' Review
The Internet's Addiction to Rage Will Consume Us All
All of Andrei Tarkovsky's Films Free Online
'Before I Go to Sleep' Review: A Narcoleptic Thriller
Bookreader Tolkienista Bingo for Watching 'The Battle of Five Armies'
Keynes vs. Hayek Rap Battles are the Most Wonderful Videos Ever Posted on the Internet
Why Tina Fey Would Be the Perfect Person to Replace Lorne Michaels on 'SNL' (Sooner, Rather than Later)
Every Character on 'Modern Family' is a Serial Killer
Why It's Not Funny that Darth Vader's Running for Ukraine's Parliament
What's the Difference Between New Hampshire and Missouri?
Brad Pitt's 'Fury' Is One of the Best War Movies in Years
How the Internet Made Time Slow Again
The Cover Song Rule: How to Tell if a Reboot is Any Good
Truth to Power: Why 'Archer' Should Have Kept ISIS in the Show
Just Why Do All Alien Planets Look Exactly Like the Woods Outside of Vancouver?
What Nicolas Cage's 'Left Behind' Says About Apocalyptic Christianity
"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" Sequel Getting Netflix-First Release
Why Netflix Watchers are Superior Human Beings
Haunting Powerlessness: Why Dystopia is Horror on the Societal Level
How India Just Destroyed Civilization
ESPN Suspends Bill Simmons, Fails Public Relations 101
The CW is Still a Network: A Schedule Review
The True Story of the Only Man to Serve in Both the American and Soviet Armies
How Young Adult Bestsellers Tell Us That We're Doomed
Why Actors Get Awards: 'The Drop'
Eh, It's no 'Katniss Kronicles': 'The Maze Runner'
Revisiting Robin Williams and 'What Dreams May Come'
Dan Simmons And The True Story of the HMS Terror
Snap Impressions from the Weekend's First Slate of NFL Games
A Return to Normalcy: Ukrainian Rap Tribute to "Die Hard"
What Dante and Dogs Tell Us About "The Leftovers"
Check your Americanski privilege: Fixing "A Good Day to Die Hard"
Zoe Quinn, Anita Sarkeesian, and Internet Misogyny as Terrorism
How Memory Interconnects Everything We Watch and Read
Every "Criminal Minds" Season Streaming on Netflix
Why I Love Spoilers
Pajiba's Guide to Everything You Need to Know About the Teen Choice Awards
So Long and Thanks for All the Fish: 'The Hundred-Foot Journey' Review
The Clearing at the End of the Path
Why People Like Joe Should Be Halted and Lit on Fire, and How the Media Confuses Leeches with Geniuses
Floria Marlins' Mascot Stars in Own 'Star Wars' Trailer, and It's Still Better than the Prequels
What Video Games Say About Our Morality
'Manhattan' Review: Don't Want to Set the World on Fire
Why We Persist in Monster Hunting and Conspiracy Theories
Lucy: Painfully Stupid No Matter What Percent of Your Brain You Use
Leslie Knope and Heroes without Arcs
Episodic Television: An Elaborate Delivery Mechanism for Short Stories
The Things You Learn Marathoning USA
Draco Kills a Mudblood: 'Murder in the First' Review
A Stunning Vision of Hell: 'A Stranger to Myself'
'The Stand' for Morons: 'The Last Ship' Review
Book Readers' Edition of 'Game of Thrones': Where Do We Go From Here?
The Greatest Television Show Ever Conceived: 'Treehouse Masters'
Well Be Still My Stone Heart: "Game of Thrones" Book Readers' Edition - 'The Children'
Your Pajiba Guide to Surviving Summer Road Trips
Your Completely Unhelpful Guide to World Cup Viewing Options
Look Ma, No Filler: "Game of Thrones" Book Readers' Edition - 'The Watchers on the Wall'
Why "Cosmos" Matters
All You Need is Kill: "Edge of Tomorrow" Review
Why Are Horror Stories Not to Blame for the Slenderman Crime, but the Men's Rights Movement Carries Some Blame for the Santa Barbara's Killings?
The Broccoli Theory of Bad Television
Mmmm, Beetles: "Game of Thrones" Book Readers' Edition - 'The Mountain and the Viper'
"Game of Thrones": Hot Pie's Choose Your Own Adventure
The Fascinating Real-Life Account of How Man Waged War Against Emus with Machine Guns ... and Lost
The Journey, Not the Destination
These Stories Aren't About Superheroes: "X-Men: Days of Future Past"
Why Jack Bauer is Hurting America
Kitten Mittens Meet Wearing Sunscreen: Charlie Day Commencement Speech
Slim Pickens Demands Royalties: "Game of Thrones" Book Readers' Edition - "Mockingbird"
"Cosmos" Week 11: "Life here began out there".
Slumdog Jerry Maguire: 'Million Dollar Arm' Review
What We Say About Readers: An Internal Email Exchange About the GoT Book Reader Backlash
The Uncanny Valley of Television: "Game of Thrones" - "The Laws of Gods and Men"
"Cosmos" Episode 10: He's Electric
The Most and Least Popular Countries in Film and Television
This Water Ain't Going to Tread Itself: Book Readers' "Game of Thrones" - "First of His Name"
Beep-Boop-Beep-Boop: "24" Real Time Review
"Cosmos" Week 9: The Past is a Different Planet
"Believe": The Best Show Ever in My Head
Never Go Full Robert Jordan: Book Readers' "Game of Thrones" - "Oathkeeper"
"Cosmos" Week 8: We Looked at the Stars and Found Plato's Cave
Parkour, Dystopian Detroit, and Paul Walker's Final Gift to Us: "Brick Mansions" Review
Peak Reference -- The Point At Which We Can't Cram Anymore References Into Our Head -- Is Coming
Stretch Those Storylines! Book Readers' "Game of Thrones" - "Breaker of Chains"
'Field of Dreams' Review: Maybe This Is Heaven
"Cosmos" Week 7: People, People Never Change
Jenny McCarthy's Terminator Reboot: "Transcendence" Review
"Bob's Burgers": Linda, Louise, and Accepting Your Kids For Who They Are
Who Doesn't Love Pie? Book Readers' "Game Of Thrones" - "The Lion and the Rose"
"Cosmos" Week 6: Fear? It's Poetry That's in a Handful of Dust
Mirrors Always Lie: "Oculus" Review
Quantity is its Own Quality: Fantasy Epics as a Distinct Medium
"Mr. Selfridge" and the Pornography of the Past
For The Literate Among Us: Book Readers' "Game Of Thrones" - "Two Swords"
"Cosmos" Week 5: We are the Stuff of Stars
Communism's Blood Drenched Flood
Worst Finale Ever: A Complete Tone Deafness of Basic Storytelling
"Cosmos" Week 4: A Sky Full of Ghosts
Listen All Y'all It's a "Sabotage" Review
Word Counts and Fandom
"The Breakfast Club": The Nostalgia of Others
"Cosmos" Episode 3: Your God is too Small
Ten Twisted 'Dungeons & Dragons' Monsters That Should Be Adapted By SyFy Originals
"Archer": Really Just a Documentary from the Future
Why George R.R. Martin Needs to Finish 'A Song of Ice and Fire'
"Cosmos" Episode 2: Evolution Boogaloo
Fathers and Heroes: 'Our Fathers Were Our Models for God'
Redeeming Ted Mosby
BadWrongFun: Are You Enjoying Yourself Correctly?
We are a way for the cosmos to know itself: 'Cosmos' is a Supernova in Your Brain Bits
It Ain't Fantasy Without a Little Fascism, or Why Neville Was the Real Hero of 'Harry Potter'
There Are Going to be Some Changes Around Here
Sunday Night Just Became Science Night
Life is a Sitcom: How Our Reality Mirrors 'Burn Notice'
The Post-Meta Academy Awards Experience
Ukraine, Revolution, and Movies: People Talking About Movies While the World Ends
It's Science: Earworms Make the Best Comic Book Trailers
'Hannibal': For the Love of All Mankind
So You Want to Kickstarter: How Not to be an Asshole
B*tch Ranking 'Downton Abbey': The Americans Arrive, Substituting Vulgarity for Wit
Romantic Comedies Destroy the Best Parts of Being Alive
B*tch Ranking 'Downton Abbey': Ask Ms. Padmore how Revenge is Best Served
So, Sochi, Just What Is That Place?
Steampunk Nazi Killing Short: 'Project Arbiter' Short Film
B*tch Ranking 'Downton Abbey': New Sheriff Edition
It Ain't Whedon, But It'll Do: 'Vampire Academy' Review
The First Color Photographs and the Two Old Lady Theory of History
In Retrospect, Superb Owl Sunday Would Have Been Better: Worst Super Bowl Ever.
The Top Seven Rulers of Russia Who Deserve a Film
White House Petition to Deport Bieber hits 100,000
Why Crowd Sourcing the Critical Process Poses a Far Greater Danger to Studios, Labels, and Networks than Piracy
The Internet Will Shutdown Today Because Patrick Rothfuss Won It
Mass Literacy and the Revolution of Literature
The Mentally Challenged Golden Retriever of Cinema: 'The Legend of Hercules' Review
Stupid Enough to Not Be Its Own Legal Guardian: 'Intelligence' Review
'Parks and Rec' 100th Episode Special
Original Audio of Apollo 13 Incident, in Real Time
The Dark Side of Netflix
'47 Ronin' Review: The Best Fantasy Film of this December
'The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug' Review: 'Pirates of the Caribbean' with Orcs
'House of Cards' Season 2 Trailer: Ooh 52 Card Pick-up!
Christmas and the Joy of Living in the Season of Death
Our Tax Dollars Hard at Work: NSA Employees Paid to Play 'World of Warcraft'
The Bureaucrat's Revolution: Vasili Mitrokhin and His Archive
Ron Burgundy Does the News in North Dakota. For Real.
It Belongs in a Museum: 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' 1981 PBS Documentary
'Blade Runner' Remade in Watercolor. No, Seriously, Watch This.
'Delivery Man': Oh a Lovable Loser, I Don't Suppose We'll Get a Montage With That?
The Hateful Propaganda of Middle Earth
Why Shakespeare Matters: 'We Are Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On'
Wait, I Thought He'd Gone Wrestling: Andy Kaufman Might Be Alive After All
Please Just End New York City's War on Crime: 10 Places That Procedurals Should Be Set in Before New York City
'Twilight' DVD Extras Actually Have Purpose: The Creepiest Doll Ever
Humanity Does Not Ask Us To Be happy: 'Ender's Game'
More Worlds to Conquer: Rome's Lost Legion
Getting 'Star Wars: Episode VII' Right
All progress depends on the unreasonable man: 'The Fifth Estate'
Social Torture Porn: 'Zero Charisma'
World's Dumbest Pirate King Caught by Being Offered Job on Movie
The Best Russian Musical You Haven't Seen: 'Stilyagi'
Books, Rebellion, and 'The Hunt for Red October'
Masterpiece Theatre is my Slow Motion BBC DVR: "Foyle's War"
A Great Film Lacking Greatness: "Prisoners"
Mere Anarchy is Loosed Upon the World: "Breaking Bad" and Our Love of Antiheroes
A Snuff Film for Formerly Great Film Careers: 'The Family'
So You Think There Have Only Been Eleven Doctors? The Other Time Lords.
On Books and Infinity
I've Made a Huge Mistake: Getaway
It's Not a Lie if it's to a Vegetarian: "Bob's Burgers" Review
A Brilliant Tragic Comedy: Just Go See The World's End
Fiction and the Slow Problem of Time
You Had Me At Spaceships, Dystopia, and Power Armor: Elysium
We Live in a Primitive Time, Don't We? "Orange is the New Black"
Reading the Entrails: Predictions of the Endings of Ten Current Television Shows
How Interface Matters More than Genre in Video Games
"The Ceremony of innocence Is Drowned": The Story of Rasputin
A Pox On Both Your Houses: A Conversation About Spoilers
There's Always Time for More Slaying: New BtVS Behind the Scenes Video
Whedon Sits Down to Chat: "Firefly", Much Ado, Man of Steel, and More.
"Justified," Fathers, and Federalism: Don't Want Live in My Father's House
Through the Grave the Wind is Blowing: A Historical Theory of A Game of Thrones
The Abyss Stares Back: "Hannibal"
How "Arrested Development", The Dark Tower, and The Lone Ranger Are All Connected
I Was Promised Fear, But All I Got Was This Handful of Dust: After Earth
The Gospel According to John Luther
The Good of the Many: Star Trek Into Darkness
How Netflix Should Democratize Television
If The Empire Strikes Back is No Longer Topical, Get Off of My Lawn
"The Walking Dead" and the Birth of the State
"I'm Daniel Day Lewis": The White House Correspondents Dinner
Alien Species? How About Seven of Them? "Defiance"
Fighter Jets and the Mad Hatter Theory: How NBC's "Community" Died
"Jurassic Park" Review: Let's Find a Way
Locking All the Insanity in a Single Room: Lumping the Most Explosive Character Types Together
On the Side of the Angels: "Sherlock," Sociopathy, and Evil
Yippee Ki-Yay Mr. President: Olympus Has Fallen
Why We Write
Empathy is the Enemy: The Fall of Orson Scott Card
The Kevin Bacon Manifold: Or How There Is Actually Only One Fictional Universe
1 in 14 Of History's Greatest Artists Are Alive Today: The Upside to Overpopulation
"But they treasure, secretly treasure, the times they lost. It's a sacrifice, of sorts": Why We Keep Watching Sports
Roll Initiative: Why You Should Read Role-playing Game Rule Books
Wait, When Did Canada Get Guns? Flashpoint
"It's Not the Years, Honey, It's the Mileage": The Awkward Aging of Television and Film
If You Haven't Seen It, It's New to You: The Best of 2011
Django Unchained Review: Now That's a Bingo
Evil is Not Washed Away by Good: Torture and Zero Dark Thirty
Democracy is a myth, sold to us by the West.
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream: How We Mistake Dark Stories for Complex Ones
"My Life As a Turkey": "It Does No Harm to the Romance of the Sunset to Know a Little Bit about It"
"How I Met Your Mother": The Truth About Ted Mosby
"Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome" Episodes One and Two
Systems of Magic And Politics
Hobbits Teach Airline Safety for Air New Zealand
The Hand in the Dark: Why We Have Come to Love Assassins
Captain My Captain: He Just Might Get You High Tonight
"True Blood" As A Subversion of the Tragic Vampire Trope
Television is Better Today (And Worse): Political Science Says So
Politics is About Storytelling, Not Debates
Rian Johnson's The Psychology of Dream Analysis
The Best Space-Travel Science Fiction Novels
A Modest Proposal for Funding Art
This Week's Entry in the Ignorance of Your Elected Officials: The Fighting 11th
What Superheroes Mean
Refuting Tolkien
A Taxonomy of Time Travel
The Death of the Movie Theater
Why We Watch Procedurals
Spiritual Atheism: 'Buffy,' 'Angel,' 'House' and 'Doctor Who'
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"All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain": Matters of Memory
It was Never Meeting Sally that Mattered to Harry: What Romantic Movies Don't Get
"Tell Sad Stories of the Death of Kings": Why We Love Dark Stories
I Am Not Your Blowing Wind: Audiobooks and the Endless Road
Why I Hate the Olympics
Television Killed Itself: The Rise of Pointless Television
The Death and Rebirth of Television News: "All of Life is Reduced to the Common Rubble of Banality"
All Dogs Go To Heaven: Why We Cannot Stomach the Suffering of Dogs in Our Fiction
"Build your wings on the way down": Ray Bradbury 1920-2012
The Greatest Book Series to Marathon
Horror? This is Not Horror: Chernobyl Diaries
Television is a Business You Know: Why the Firing of Dan Harmon is Wrong
There Are Other Worlds Than These: Being Born in Another World a Low Percentage Bet