Few pieces of popular literature will enjoy anything close to the effect Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde has had on our society. As both a piece of fiction in of itself and a separately understood entity within modern nomenclature, the understanding of a basic personal duality has…

As the camera panned through the calm, empty corridors of the Nostromo, so too did the people watching. Whether audiences in 1979 knew it or not, Ridley Scott was doing the careful, calculated work of setting the basis for what remains a classic horror. By establishing a point of stasis…

It’s a sobering thought to imagine our way of life, the only one we can possibly know, could one day be looked upon with disdainful revision. As both the manner in which we conceive of things and the conditions that define them slowly becoming outdated by the endless tread of…

There is, perhaps, no way to adequately express the shock emanating from this year’s best picture win. Bong Joon-Ho’s four-Oscar haul for Parasite in the year of our lord 2020 was momentous for so many reasons. Given the academy’s penchant for rewarding films that so often seem emblematic of their…

In March of 2019, physicists at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh performed an experiment. Initially proposed as a problem challenging a paradox of quantum mechanics, Eugene Wigner’s idea behind testing whether two irreconcilable realities can co-exist has long been but a thought in a Ph.D. candidate’s head. Wigner, as it turns…

It starts with a shudder. When looking to re-tell some of the most significant moments in human history, textbooks, documentaries, and mediums that, at least in some way, look to try and uncolor the re-telling of history, do so with a feel for some kind of objectivity. Whether it’s for…

Though movie-going as a whole is something of a dying medium, the space for certain kinds of films is rapidly shrinking. In the age of Marvel movies, what we’ve found people are willing to travel to the cinema for are galactic, serialized, blockbuster hits- at least more than anything else…

There’s little comfort in knowing how something will end. A commonly asked party or road trip question is whether you’d want to know when and how you’ll die. Answers may forever differ, but the important part, however obvious, is the before. Everyone knows they’ll one day be gone. …

Italian theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli’s theory that time doesn’t exist is, at first glance, violently jarring. Though many of us probably already understand the logging of seconds, minutes, hours and so on, are arbitrary measures that only benefit the structure of our society, the suggestion that the very passage of…