Review: Marcel the Shell With Shoes On
The feature version of the 2010s viral sensation proves the summer’s best family movie and a brilliant indictment of the Internet culture that spawned it.
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The Weekly Film Rundown: September 16-22, 2022
The latest releases and special screenings hitting Music City this weekend.
✶ Weekly Film Rundown: September 9-15, 2022
The latest releases and special screenings hitting Music City this weekend.
Larry Arnn Was Right About Teachers
The Hillsdale College president should be rewarded for his candor, especially after our experience reaching out to Metro Nashville Public Schools
Weekly Film Rundown
The latest releases and special screenings hitting Music City this weekend.
Review: The Black Phone
A mashup of ghost story and slasher offers a faith-tinged take on childhood trauma
A Patients’ Rights Advocate Confronts Sen. Richard Briggs’s Bedside Manner
Kent Morrell’s decades-long fight with the medical establishment has led to an insurgent State Senate Campaign and a focus on Big Pharma’s influence over the General Assembly
The Pamphleteer Summer Streaming Guide
Our go-to options when prestige TV gets as old as last year’s sunscreen at the bottom of a beach bag.
Review: Jurassic World: Dominion
The franchise’s finale proves a worthy successor to the original and a savvy take on blind trust in science.
On Seeing 2000 Mules
Critics’ neglect of the year’s most polarizing film is deplorable.
The Exit/In Cashes in on Nashville's Identity Crisis
One of the city’s oldest indie music venues comes to terms with its role in New Nashville and the self-styled martyrdom that has defined it over the past year.
Dr. Carol Swain’s Ivory Tower Exit
The former Vanderbilt Professor discusses entering the arena of the public intellectual with her bestselling rejoinder to CRT and her mentorship of young academics who want to follow her lead.
The Pamphleteer Streaming Guide May 2022
From recent Oscar nominees to neglected 70s classics, this month’s offerings go beyond the algorithms.
Review: Uncharted
An underwhelming videogame adaptation seems stitched together from better movies.
Review: The Batman
Impressive casting and a gritty story close to its comics source inject new life into the long-in-the truth franchise.