Hotels, by their very nature, represent a paradox. They’re extremely public buildings that, for a while, become a home-away-from-home refuge for visiting strangers. Innumerable lives are lived in hotel rooms: people sleep, and cry, have sex and drink and laugh; in some hotel rooms people have been... + continue reading
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Hotels, by their very nature, represent a paradox. They’re extremely public buildings that, for a while, become a home-away-from-home refuge for visiting strangers. Innumerable lives are lived in hotel rooms: people sleep, and cry, have sex and drink and laugh; in some hotel rooms people have been born, in many others people have died. And every... + continue reading
Every television series begins with a promise.
Give us your time. Your attention. Your imagination.
In return, we’ll tell you a story. And when it ends, we’ll bring it to its proper conclusion.
Most do.
Some don’t.
Some endings are still missing.
These are their case files.
1. The Voyage That Never Came Home
Some television... + continue reading
Movies
For the better part of six years, we've been conducting an autopsy on a patient who keeps sitting up.
The movie theater is dying. Streaming killed it. COVID finished it. Audiences don't want to... + continue reading
Music
Twenty-five years after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, singer-songwriter R. J. Carter is marking the anniversary with the release of I See Your Name, a new song written in remembrance... + continue reading
Television
Every television series begins with a promise.
Give us your time. Your attention. Your imagination.
In return, we’ll tell you a story. And when it ends, we’ll bring it to its proper conclusion... + continue reading
Books
Hotels, by their very nature, represent a paradox. They’re extremely public buildings that, for a while, become a home-away-from-home refuge for visiting strangers. Innumerable lives are lived in... + continue reading
Comics
Part One: The Difference Between History and Homework
There are two propositions that ought to be posted above the desk of every editor charged with attracting new comic-book readers.... + continue reading
Interviews
What innovations are reshaping the landscape of new casinos? What trends are in gambling nowadays? Meet Yugo Kinoshita, the Global CEO of Aruze Gaming Group, who speaks about the new era in the world... + continue reading
Home Video
"Did you see it last night?"
For a generation of Americans, that may have been the most powerful sentence in entertainment.
It wasn't merely a question. It was an invitation into a conversation... + continue reading
Gaming
There was a time when keeping an old video game system connected to the television felt less like preserving history and more like refusing to clean the basement. The new console was better. The... + continue reading
From the Publisher
Some assignments are too dangerous for the law. Some enemies are too powerful for ordinary men. And some heroes have to die before they can begin.
Critical Blast Publishing and Destroyer Books are... + continue reading
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