The Darkness Within: 13 Films That Burrow into Our Psyches
These 13 films help us understand horror as an important mode of cultural expression, as a means to explore the dark inner recesses of ourselves and our society.
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PopTalk: The 2015 Academy Award Nominations
PopTalk is a new podcast on PopMatters that casts its gaze on exciting developments in culture and the arts. In this first installment, we examine the 2015 Oscar nominees, and the broken rules of the institution that is the Academy.
A Call for the Academy to Reconceptualize the Best Original Score Category
So long as the Academy clings to a myopic definition of what an "original" score is, too many deserving composers will be left out come Oscar night.