Monthly Archives: July 2022

Best arthouse films on Netflix, for when you want your mind blown and your soul shook

Even if you immediately dismiss the label of “arthouse” as something reserved for snobby cinephiles, I promise that you already love a handful of the movies under that categorization. So, what defines a film as “arthouse?” In the most basic way, arthouse films are ones that aren’t made for the mainstream, like the Marvels and…

Why the first Webb telescope image is so warped, twisted, and weird

In the first image NASA released from the Webb telescope, some galaxies look like strings of stretched taffy. That’s because the universe itself has altered our view of the deep cosmos. Astronomers recently pointed the colossal James Webb Space Telescope at a cluster of galaxies dubbed SMACS 0723. Crucially, galaxies are enormously massive objects as…

Sorry, ‘Stranger Things’ lovers, but this Eddie Munson fan theory is bunk

Alright, fellow Stranger Things fans, it’s time to face up to the facts. I love Eddie Munson, you love Eddie Munson, we all love Eddie Munson. But Eddie Munson is dead, and he’s not coming back. Hawkins’s resident Dungeons and Dragons-loving metalhead (played to perfection by Joseph Quinn) stole our hearts throughout the fourth season…