An impasse. A quandary. A pickle. A choice. In this issue, we’re looking at dilemmas: the in-betweens and roads not taken, the murky areas, the shades of gray.
Zero Dark Thirty is a parable of what happens when you sacrifice so much to win the battle that you forget you've lost the war.
In Ex Machina, the only piece of Ava hinting at humanity is the skin of her face, which extends above her forehead, behind her ears, and dips below her chin before stopping. And yet.
I was an anxious kid. I hated the dark. Sometimes, when I was playing in my parents’ basement, my mom...
The movie begins with a close-up of Woody Allen sputtering into the camera about genius. “Why Emmet Ray? To me,...
Like the best of David Foster Wallace’s writing, The End of the Tour is a film both sparkling with the alacrity of life and rife with double binds.
Loyalty to the source material is a curious thing. In modern terms, although it’s clambered for and scrutinized mercilessly by...
I have struggled with the idea of what it means to be grown up. Like so many other so-called adults,...
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