While anime has rapidly crept into the popular culture space over the last decade, Solo Leveling, an adaptation of the webtoon/manwha of the same name–has reached new levels of both commercial and critical success. After a phenomenal first season last year, and its subsequent sweep at this year’s Crunchyroll Anime Awards, Solo Leveling makes history as the first anime under consideration for the Emmy Awards.


The series takes place after rifts to dungeons riddled with dangerous beasts open wor...

After the success of 2021’s Maid, Molly Smith Metzler added “showrunner” to her list of talents. Once again, Metlzer brings her decisive wit and biting social commentary to lead a new mini-series Sirens, an adaptation of her first highly-regarded stage play Elemeno Pea, for Netflix. Taking place over a weekend on a luxurious Martha’s Vineyard-esque estate, Sirens follows Devon DeWitt (Meghann Fahey) as she tries to reconnect with her younger sister Simone (Milly Alcock). However, Devon’s finds b...

With his twenty-third feature film, The Shrouds, releasing last week, I find it apt to perform a dissection of sorts on David Cronenberg’s filmography. In all phases of his career, Cronenberg has never shied away from honing in on the gross and the desirable in equal measure, never failing to add in his own personal fears and neuroses about the human condition, or what it means to be human. Even in his non-horror fare, Cronenberg’s films hone in on what it means to be human: the good, the bad, t...