Eli Roth’s Society of the Spectacle
With Thanksgiving, a titan of horror proves he’s also one of America’s most savage social critics.
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The Gravy Train Runs On ICE
💸 Who funds TIRRC · Enforcing the law · Freddie vs. the Fed · Detectors Detecting · Repeat offender all-star · Much more!
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College Football Regular Season Wrap-Up
Tennessee and Vanderbilt tie a bow on 2023 Conference Play as Vols prepare for Bowl Game
Radical Objectivity
A review of Jeff Fynn-Paul’s 'Not Stolen: The Truth About European Colonialism in the New World'
Chip's Harvest
What a sixty-three-year-old sitcom can teach us about the folly of "land acknowledgments"
Nashville’s Taylor Era
Rediscovering the suburban roots of the world’s biggest popstar may be the city’s only way to stave off its decline.
David Fincher’s Violence as a Service
'The Killer' shows how expendable art makes for expendable lives.
Tennessee Sports Hit All-Time Low
Titans, Griz, Nashville SC, Preds, Dores, and Vols all in perennial sports purgatory
A Little Less Conversation
Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla sidesteps the melodrama to depict the Presleys’ interior worlds.
Tucker: The Man and His Dream
A review of Tucker by Chadwick Moore
Predators Look to Get On Track During Western Road Trip
Early Andrew Brunette era has been a mixed bag as new unit deals with growing pains
Retreating To The Holiest Place In The South
What I learned at Gethsemani Abbey in Kentucky
Scorsese’s Forced Perspective
'Killers of the Flower Moon' should have been a late-career masterpiece from a living legend. That’s not possible in our cultural climate.
Interview: Fault Tolerant
Fault Tolerant is a Nashville-based experimental music project led by writer, creative director, and musician Evan Brown. ✰ ✰ ✰ The
Will Levis Shocks The NFL World in Debut
Rookie QB’s dazzling four touchdown performance leads Titans to 28-23 win over first-place Falcons
The Halloween Ten Revisited
These overlooked horror movies bring some new blood and biting cultural commentary to spooky season.