film Coming soon from filmmaker Case Esparros: "The Absence of Milk in the Mouths of the Lost" Mister Dobo

videos Watch inner tubes inflated until they burst Rob Beschizza

science fiction Lost Doctor Who episodes found, but the owners fear getting in trouble Rob Beschizza

News Elementary school investigates custodian who dressed as a creepy clown and photographed himself in the building after hours David Pescovitz

law Alec Baldwin likely to be recharged with manslaughter after tests on gun suggest trigger was pulled Rob Beschizza

art A documentary about Juan Tamariz, the greatest magician alive you've never heard of Ferdinando Buscema

movies Freezing sets, pea soup projectile vomiting, gunshots, and other secrets behind William Friedkin's The Exorcist David Pescovitz

Ask a Mexican Gustavo Arellano: Donkey Shows are a "wholesale gabacho invention that says more about how America projects its fevered perversions onto Mexicans and Mexico than anything about Mexicans themselves" Jennifer Sandlin

film criticism The top films of 2023, thus far Greg Nussen

movies Netflix made billboards that sweat for Extraction 2 Devin Nealy

uk A Titan sub documentary has already aired and viewers had 'uneasy reactions': 'Too soon' Rusty Blazenhoff

politics Human Rights Campaign declares a state of emergency for LGBTQ+ Americans Elías Villoro

censorship Criterion Channel under fire for unexplained edit in "The French Connection" Mark Frauenfelder

Republicans Boebert now admits she skipped the debt ceiling vote out of spite Jason Weisberger

video games Hideo Kojima to star in documentary about Hideo Kojima Grant St. Clair

classic horror The Wicker Man celebrates its 50th anniversary Jennifer Sandlin

History Verso: the left-hand page podcast returns Elías Villoro

animals Monkey "kidnaps" dog and carries it across rooftops (video) David Pescovitz

racism Dhoruba Bin Wahad was jailed for 19 years in the FBI's illegal COINTELPRO project Elías Villoro

movies A look back at 1998's Wild Things, "increasingly appreciated as a slice of wanton sleaze" Mark Frauenfelder