Reid McCarter's posts

So much technological ingenuity is used for nefarious purposes. Whether it’s whatever new dystopian reality social…

The Snowman, a 2017 thriller starring Michael Fassbender as a detective named Harry Hole, is remembered now mostly…

Nicolas Cage is a perpetual story-generating machine. Even outside of the analysis that surrounds every acting choice

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez cannot stop gaming. Having previously appeared on a charity fundraising…

Japanese amusement park Yomuriland, like other notable parks across the world, doesn’t want to let a little pandemic…

Now that almost 20 years have passed since we were given the last installment of the Austin Powers movies, we’re…

We’re about eight months into the coronavirus pandemic and, improbably, people are still arguing about whether or…

2012's Sinister isn’t a bad movie, it’s just not one of the scariest films of all time—unless, of course, you find…

The money people need to leave Die Hard alone. What started as a perfectly good trilogy of action movies has now…

Frictional Games is responsible for some of the scariest video games ever made, from the oppressive and ominous Amnes…

It only took 266 popes and the invention of the internet, but the Vatican has finally found itself at the center of…

A.J. Soprano, despite being New Jersey mafia royalty, was also just a teenager from the early ‘00s and, as a…

Some entertainment concepts are too strong to ever be made, their potential producers knowing that audiences aren’t…

A man rode his longboard, drinking cranberry juice while singing along to Fleetwood Mac’s “Dreams” and a meme was…

Paul Thomas Anderson may be our generation’s greatest filmmaker, but he is also a human being and, like all human…

Allow the internet to exist for long enough and, like a mutant version of Borges’ Library Of Babel, every possible…

Standford University’s Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson won this year’s Nobel Prize In Economic Sciences. The award…

An obscure Japanese horror game from 1999 has been translated into English and made available to play online, just…

Donald Trump would like old people to know that he likes them very much, especially when they’re mean and addled…

Actor and international treasure John Goodman has enjoyed a long career filled with varied and engaging roles in…