"The great appeal of Gormenghast has nothing to do with what happens in it. It's all about those great intangibles that you cannot quite put your finger on."
Author Premee Mohamed examines the enduring brilliance of Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast series in this new essay.
Sometimes huge empires crumble over time, without any large-scale calamity to blame. James Davis Nicoll highlights five SFF works featuring future versions of a United States that just kind of...fell apart.
Fiction can help us find new outlooks on loss; here are six speculative short stories about processing grief and finding a way forward, from Stephen Graham Jones, Curtis Chen, and more.
Mushishi is possibly the single best anime ever made. Today, the Anime Spotlight column reflects on one unforgettable episode that grapples with grief and loss with astonishing grace.
Mulholland Drive is David Lynch's masterpiece, one of the greatest films ever made about Hollywood, and an unsolvable riddle. Come share your favorite theories with the Science Fiction Film Club, and get a sneak peak at what we're watching for March!
Nominated for five Oscars, The Substance is an audacious, visceral examination of celebrity culture, unrealistic beauty standards, and our own willingness to sell ourselves out. CONTROL! YOUR! SELF! And come share your thoughts!
Regarding Osgood Perkins' new comedy-horror The Monkey, Leah Schnelbach has only this bit of advice: "Get your most sicko friends and see it in as packed a theater as you can find, if possible."
Hacksilver riddled with a dragon, saved his family's farm, and won the secret to raise his dead. Nothing prepared him, though, for the long cold winter when the dead walked...and his family came back!
