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“The End of Oak Street” does pastiche right

In 2015’s “Jurassic World” — the first of the “Jurassic Park” franchise’s largely interminable bastard step-children — there’s a moment of action that briefly suggests the film might exist for reasons other than to extend its source material and make…
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“The X-Files” still make us want to believe

It’s difficult to get one’s hopes up when it comes to the dicey state of Hollywood filmmaking, and even more difficult to keep them there. Mergers and consolidations threaten to dictate which films can get made. Theatergoing is only starting…
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AI’s abortion misinformation problem – Salon.com

Chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude are quickly changing the healthcare landscape. An estimated one in seven people have used AI for a health-related question instead of seeing a general practitioner. One in ten people have used AI for mental health…
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“Her Private Hell” belongs to Sophie Thatcher

Beneath the shadows of indigo-streaked clouds, a young woman strolls through a fog-covered city, stopping at the base of a skyscraper. She looks up, eyes following every square inch of the structure until the point where it juts past the…
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Here’s why we like some superheroes more than others

Back in 2007, long before the MasterClass franchise was a thing, Jane Espenson, one of television’s most respected and imaginative writers, wrote an essay/tutorial for The New Republic that breaks down the embraceable genre formula she calls the Chosen One.…
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Welcome to Venecky? – Salon.com

Students returning to a Kentucky middle school this year learned something surprising on their first day of class: They don’t live in Kentucky. Apparently, they live in “Venecky.” The bizarre geography lesson appeared in student agendas distributed at Farnsley Middle…
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