CMPR In an interview with The Verge, the director explains why you need to see his new film, Evil Does Not Exist, multiple times to understand the ending. Continue reading… Ryûsuke Hamaguchi wants you to watch his new movie at ...This entry was posted in Uncategorized on May 3, 2024 by Kevin Nguyen
Courtesy of IFC Films and Shudder Horror films live and die by their conceits. And sometimes, the best way to make a movie scary is to place it in an environment that’s not scary at all. Is there anything further from sp... The self-possessed horrors of Late Night with the DevilThis entry was posted in Uncategorized on April 20, 2024 by Kevin Nguyen
Kab Inc. The legendary Japanese composer wanted to record his final concert. So he asked his son, Neo Sora, to direct it. Continue reading… Behind Ryuichi Sakamoto’s last performanceThis entry was posted in Uncategorized on March 16, 2024 by Kevin Nguyen
Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Getty Images In remembrance of the humblest newsletter service and its brief run nurturing great personal writing on the internet. Continue reading… TinyLetter, in memoriamThis entry was posted in Uncategorized on February 29, 2024 by Kevin Nguyen
Image: Playstack In Casino Royale, James Bond gets a bit of poker advice: You never play your hand. You play the man sitting across from you. Okay, but what if you just played your hand? What if no one was sitting at the... Two words: poker roguelikeThis entry was posted in Uncategorized on February 26, 2024 by Kevin Nguyen
Sometimes you have to put yourself through something painful just to recognize how good you have it. There’s a lot to be gained from enduring the most disheartening shit possible: Want to hear depressing news? Want to feel anxio... Threads is a gripping, miserable experienceThis entry was posted in Uncategorized on February 4, 2024 by Kevin Nguyen
Perfectly Imperfect founder Tyler Bainbridge The dream of the early internet is alive in PI.FYI, a new app spun out from Perfectly Imperfect. Continue reading… A scene-y newsletter launches a scene-y social networkThis entry was posted in Uncategorized on January 29, 2024 by Kevin Nguyen
The Verge / Images Courtesy of Sideshow, KimStim, and Janus Films 2023 was good for big movies, but maybe even better for the small ones Continue reading… The year in arthouse moviesThis entry was posted in Uncategorized on December 21, 2023 by Kevin Nguyen
Image: Eros Hoagland Michael Mann’s biopic of the Italian sports car maker feels at home in the director’s canon of obsessive men. But have we been here before too many times? Continue reading… Ferrari stalls outThis entry was posted in Uncategorized on December 20, 2023 by Kevin Nguyen
Photo by Jerod Harris/Getty Images for Vox Media Last week, Elon Musk appeared to endorse antisemitic conspiracy theories and posted about supporting white pride on his social platform X, formerly Twitter. Musk’s tweets ... Linda Yaccarino: advertisers fleeing from X are just “temporarily paused ...This entry was posted in Uncategorized on November 20, 2023 by Kevin Nguyen