Continuing off our series of “Best of 2020-2021” lists curated by the entire Entropy community, we present some of our favorite selections as nominated by the diverse staff and team…
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In 1999, Bette and I spent winter break in front of his VCR watching Titanic and The Matrix, movies that were unintentionally apt for the Y2K version of the end…
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Early reviewers describe Bo Burnham’s pandemic special, Inside (Netflix 2021), as a smart takedown of internet culture, a meta-cinematic meditation on the powers and limits of comedic performance, and a…
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My introduction to Love Island began with a parody I didn’t understand. It was August of 2019 and I was engrossed in the Mindy Kaling-produced adaptation of Four Weddings and…
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I was initially interested in the new documentary, Wojnarowicz, for the glimpse it promised into the 1980s East Village art scene–a time and place that holds great curiosity and sentimentality…
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WOVEN is an Entropy series and dedicated safe space for essays by persons who engage with #MeToo, sexual assault and harassment, and #DomesticViolence, as well as their intersections with mental…
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I couldn’t remember, so I asked my mother how old I was when I first watched The Munsters. She said I was four. She said that it was part of…
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The driving force behind any culture is what makes, then breaks, its artists. After they are plucked off the map and digested back onto it, a fable or prophecy will…
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TRIGGER WARNING: This essay contains references to suicide that may be triggering to some. Within the deservedly acclaimed finale of BoJack Horseman, there’s one scene in particular that encapsulates the…
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“When I flash the porch light twice that means it’s time to come home,” matriarch Olivia Crain tells her children. This parental rule imparts a precocious young Nell with a…
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film still from Jean-Luc Godard’s Band of Outsiders If films—as many have pointed out before—are an approximate for dreams, then Band of Outsiders is a dream in which the figures…
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“(I’m the) DJ of my own films.” -Wong Kar-Wai Woman in Wig: Trials by Night Fortune ought to favour her, orchestrates the great divide through choked streets. This labyrinthine city…
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TRIGGER WARNING: This essay contains references to domestic violence and suicide that may be triggering to some. Do You Forgive Our Mother? It’s this line that cast the story of…
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Early on in the 1995 Bollywood film Karan Arjun, with a single streak of blood on her face, a bereaved mother tells a group of most villainous men that her…
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