The Matrix Co-Director Responds to the Right-Wing Spin on the Film

Lilly Wachowski has been chatting about how she deals with right-wing mouthpieces who misinterpret and misrepresent The Matrix, the groundbreaking sci-fi movie she co-directed with her sister Lana in 1999. Over the last decade, Neo’s choice to take the red pill over the blue pill in the film and abandon his simulated world for the […]

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Will Byers’ Hero Moment Was Worth the Five Season Wait

The following article contains spoilers for Stranger Things season 5. They say that good things come to those who wait. And, at least in the case of Stranger Things’ final season, it turns out they were right. Sure, the first batch of episodes was probably too long, more than a little bit repetitive, and often […]

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Stranger Things: Is That Returning Character Really Eleven’s Kryptonite?

The following article contains spoilers for Stranger Things season 5. A lot happens in the first four episodes of Stranger Things’ final season. Vecna’s back to his old, overly complicated tricks, rounding up a gang of (now even younger!) kids in the service of some nefarious plan to remake the world. Max is still in […]

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How Stranger Things: The First Shadow Fleshes Out That Season 5 Flashback

This article contains spoilers for Stranger Things season 5 and Stranger Things: The First Shadow. Early in “Sorcerer,” the fourth episode of Stranger Things‘ fifth season, viewers get a familiar sight: Max Mayfield (Sadie Sink), digitally de-aged to look like she did when she nearly died fighting Vecna at the end of season four. As […]

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Stranger Things Season 5’s A Wrinkle in Time Connections Explained

This article contains spoilers for Stranger Things season 5. At the end of Madeleine L’Engle’s 1962 sci-fi fantasy novel A Wrinkle in Time, the witch/interdimensional being called Mrs. Whatsit compares human life to a sonnet, the poetic form defined by its strict 14-line structure. The correlation annoys Calvin, a teen from a troubled family who […]

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A Divisive Cult Horror Movie May Hold the Key to the Stranger Things Finale

This article contains spoilers for the first four episodes of Stranger Things season 5. After a three-year gap, Stranger Things has finally returned for its fifth and final season on Netflix. The first four episodes of season 5 see the town of Hawkins under heavy military lockdown while our intrepid gang investigates eerie phenomena tied […]

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The Rest of Stranger Things 5 Is Coming Out at the Best and Worst Possible Time

If you’ve just finished watching the first four episodes of Stranger Things season 5, you might be sitting there thinking, “ok, where’s the rest?” and the answer is that you don’t have to wait a long time for the final chapters to drop on Netflix. At least, not comparatively, when you consider that the gap […]

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