You’d be hard-pressed to find someone who hasn’t heard of The Phantom of the Opera. Whether you’ve been in the orbit of a theatre kid who’s probably seen its musical adaptation, the longest-running show on Broadway, or you’ve seen a glimpse of the iconic half-mask in a Spirit Halloween, the story and iconography of the Phantom haunting the Paris Opera House has persisted across stage and screen. The latter started (in Hollywood, at least) with Universal Pictures’ 1925 adaptation, which premiered...

On Friday, August 8th, the Writers Guild of America (WGA) announced the expulsion of two members based on violating the terms and conditions of the 2023 strike. After a five-month-long investigation, Park Chan-wook and his writing partner Don McKellar received notice that their post-production editing work on HBO’s The Sympathizer (2024) constituted a violation of strike rules. While this isn’t the first case of expulsion caused by violating the 2023 strike rules, Park and McKellar’s expulsion,...

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...