Slant Magazine

Perhaps you were a fan of Susanna Kaysen’s 1993 bestseller Girl, Interrupted, which launched a mini memoir boom after its publication. Or maybe you came to the story via James Mangold’s 1999 Hollywood adaptation starring Winona Ryder, which gained cult status and nabbed Angelina Jolie an Oscar. Perhaps it was Aimee Mann’s 2021 concept album Queens of the S...

In the years since 2013’s Tomorrow’s Harvest, Boards of Canada’s sound—crystalline cyber-synths matched with loopy, hip-hop-inspired rhythms—hasn’t evolved much. The beats are textural by default, with an emphasis not on songcraft but hypnotic atmosphere. The d...

Written by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, and based on their 1970 novel, the Estonian production Dead Mountaineer’s Hotel is a surreal genre mash-up that opens like an Agatha Christie-style locked-room mystery before shifting gears during its last act to an otherworldly bit of sci-fi strangeness. The film came out the same year as Andrei Tarkovsky’s

Putting aside the nostalgia that many kids of the 1980s have for the adventures of Prince Adam, there’s not a whole lot to be gained culturally from hauling out He-Man-flavored Member Berries for mass consumption in 2026. The tragedy of Masters of the Universe,...

“Jinsei is a swan. You can go anywhere. You can do whatever you like,” muses the guilt-ridden Hiroshi (Shohei Uno) to his wayward, blue-haired stepson (Ace Cool) in writer-director Suzuki Ryuya’s animated feature Jinsei (which translates to “life” in Japanese). Hiroshi’s words of wisdom are as good a summation as any of this scrappy film, which blurs the borde...