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Revisiting Pat Cadigan’s 1991 novel “Synners” in light of dystopian developments in Los Angeles.Did you know LARB is a reader-supported nonprofit?LARB publishes daily without a paywall…

When Rick (Paul Rudd), the protagonist of Power Ballad, plays one of his musical works in progress for his teenage daughter (Beth Fallon’s Aja), she practically…

Zeberiah Newman‘s Stop the Insanity: Finding Susan Powter is not your typical exercise in rise-and-fall ’90s celebrity nostalgia. Then again, Susan Powter was never your typical…

Every Cannes Film Festival needs a film like “De Gaulle: Résistance,” a proudly French and massively scaled production with the energy of a vintage Hollywood blockbuster.…

Perfecting the art of the blacklist.Did you know LARB is a reader-supported nonprofit?LARB publishes daily without a paywall as part of our mission to make rigorous,…

German teenager Franny (newcomer Naomi Cosma) arrives in New Mexico to spend the 2001-02 academic year at a high school in Las Cruces, living with a…

When Erin Foster’s Netflix rom-com Nobody Wants This premiered last year, I discussed it through one of my favorite prisms: Is it good for the Jews?…

‘The Chair Company’ Review: Tim Robinson Brings His Delightfully Unhinged Vibe to HBO The Hollywood Reporter Credit: Source link

There is a recently burgeoning genre of documentaries — usually either celebrity or true crime in focus — driven not by aesthetic or storytelling imperatives but…

The “This Is Fine” meme stems from the Gunshow webcomic by KC Green. It features a happy dog with platter-sized pupils and a jaunty hat enjoying…