Albert Birney’s endearingly crafted, black-and-white idiosyncratic vision of a life consumed by media dabbles in darkness while on a quest to its life-affirming intent. Hand-labeled VHS tapes ...

Hand-labeled VHS tapes line the shelves of the living room where Conor Marsh (Albert Birney), a 36-year-old man living alone with his dog Sandy in 1987 Baltimore, spends many hours watching late ...

This analog library of thrilling fictions and ephemeral images preserved on tape is part of the bevy of references in “Obex,” a miniature epic of melancholic whimsy endearingly conceived in ...

Heimann makes the most of limited resources, crafting a vibrant and alive world. The film’s lo-fi aesthetic is part of its charm, adding intimacy. Its influences from zany vintage Japanese ...

"The aesthetic of comfort that really reached its peak during the [COVID-19] pandemic continues to be appealing for readers and audiences today," Michelle Cho, an associate professor in East ...

As the Japan Times points out, these whimsical, escapist books have long been popular in that country, where the iyashikei (healing) genre already thrives in manga and anime. In Korea ... We'll ...

The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep, the new feature-length anime set to drop on Netflix on February 11, is set to do something the live-action series has never dared to attempt: adapt 'A Little ...

“Inheritance,” directed by Neil Burger and written by Burger and Olen Steinhauer, immediately plunges us into Maya’s world, captured with a gritty, grungy lo-fi aesthetic. Soundtracked to ...

but ultimately hollow sci-fi aesthetic. Section 31 deeply wants to evoke to its audience that its heroes are cool, what they’re doing is cool, and even that the way that they’re all atypical ...