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Phantom Parrot sheds light on “Schedule 7”, secret surveillance, and the casualties of the war on terror

22-year-old Taku becomes a bike courier during the pandemic. Tokyo Uber Blues follows his dizzying ride to the bottom

Richland is the city that forged the bomb that destroyed Nagasaki. Seventy years later, it still grapples with that legacy

A football team manager (Robert Culp) concocts an ice-cold cover story for murder, but slips up on a killer detail

Making sense of horror cult classic The Wicker Man … and its doomed remake. Yes, we’re doing this

Mirrors, metaphors and the meaning of the monkey in cerebral sci-fi movi, Ad Astra