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This Week in Streaming (January 14th)
Our recommendations to counteract the endless scrolling.
Measuring public safety with a ruler
🚔 A more natural metric for crime · Fusus returns · War on Hate · Much more!
Trumpian Swiftian America
🎤 Donald Trump and Taylor Swift · Snow · Suing Transit · Film Rundown · Much more!
Taylor Swift, Donald Trump, and the Universal Traits of American Iconography
How a new book about the world’s reigning pop artist accidentally makes a case for the appeal of the once and future president.
Climate Change is real, the solutions are fake
📑 Primitive Climate Paperwork Offerings · Snow · A Real Pain · Much more!
Film Review: A Real Pain (2024)
Most living Americans remember the days when Woody Allen would crank out at least one seminal film a decade. So it comes as little surprise
The Ideal Nashvillian
🎨 A city of life artists · Community reacts to break-ins · ESA session · Much more!
The Root of All Traffic
🚗 We fixed traffic · Car break-ins · Week in streaming · Much more!
This Week in Streaming (January 7th)
Our recommendations to counteract the endless scrolling.
The View from Behind the Lens
🎥 Jay Curtis Miller talks film · Pork of the Year · Much more!
The Making of Jay Curtis Miller
From action figures to auteur
The Modern Healthcare Vampire
🧛🏻♂️ Nosferatu as MAHA fable · Fusus returns · Safety on Broadway · Much more!
Nosferatu as MAHA Fable
Robert Eggers’s Riff on Dracula is the crown jewel of post-COVID horror
Peering into the Past (2024)
🎥 Interview with The Damned · 2024 Year in Review · Much more!