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  • 2021: What the Actual Shit Was That?

    2021: What the Actual Shit Was That?

    Einstein famously established the relativity of time. But even his elegant theory and the refinements that have followed perhaps fail to capture time’s true elasticity. There is no truer test of what we are tentatively calling the Unified Theory of Relativity than 2021, a year where moments stretched and collapsed upon each other and made…


  • Silent Night Offers a Downbeat Blend of Doomsday and Christmas

    Silent Night Offers a Downbeat Blend of Doomsday and Christmas

    There are tons of movies about humans trying to negotiate the post-apocalypse. Less common are films about people counting down until the end of the world — though they certainly exist, with approaches as varied as Roland Emmerich’s big, loud disaster flick 2012 and Lars von Trier’s pensive, nihilistic Melancholia. Writer-director Camille Griffin’s Silent Night…