It's time to dispel some myths about Midwest emo and I want to be the person who does it. If there was ever a "scene" that I was part of, it was the Midwest emo scene of the late 1990s. There wasn't ...

A cutthroat high school election spirals into sabotage, revenge, and chaos as every character proves just how messy democracy ...

As you might be able to tell, I’ve long thought that most popular emo rap was bad, but the one tape for which I still have a soft spot is Lil Peep’s Crybaby. Released in 2016, Peep, like Gates, ...

Although it lasted only two seasons and disappeared for years afterward, “Get a Life” has been hugely influential, not only on Adult Swim and other avant-garde comedy but also on “The Simpsons” itself ...

A cinematic obsessive with the filmic palate of a starving raccoon, Rob London will watch pretty much anything once. With a mind like a steel trap, he's an endless fount of movie and TV trivia, borne ...

There’s something magical about Bloomington in November, when the weather’s still (usually) temperate, IU football is the talk of the town, and perhaps-premature Christmas light displays help to ...

With a 94% Rotten Tomatoes critics’ score and a strong 8/10 IMDb rating, One Battle After Another remains one of the best-reviewed films of the year. Yet, despite the widespread acclaim and Leonardo ...

It’s been more than a month since the theatrical release of Tron: Ares, the third instalment in the sci-fi action franchise. With a current global haul of $140.1 million, it’s just a matter of time ...

Stand-up comedy is so much more than telling jokes with a microphone in hand. For seasoned masters of the art, it’s an exploration of everything right and wrong with humanity, all at once, from the ...

Last night at 2:17 AM, every child from Mrs. Gandy's class went missing.

In 2020, a comedy club owner claimed that the pandemic effectively rendered New York City “dead forever.” Five years later, it is very much alive and so is its vibrant comedy scene — which merely ...