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Recess Managing Editor Will Atkinson chooses his five favorite releases of the year.
I avoided watching Netflix’s latest season of “The Crown” — not only so I could binge it over Thanksgiving break, but also because I was apprehensive about the major changes made to the cast of the Queen Elizabeth biopic series as it moved into a new era.
If the Internet hasn’t defined your idea of “Boomers” yet, allow artists of the generation to do it for you.
Writer-director Rian Johnson breathes life back into the “whodunit” with “Knives Out.”
“Frozen 2” opens with a song about everything staying the same.
As the 2010s come to a close, the Recess staff is looking back at the culture that defined the decade.
Coldplay’s first two albums played constantly in my dad’s car when I was a kid.
In January 2018, Migos dropped all 106 minutes of “Culture II.”
Earlier this year, Instagram began experimenting with hiding the “like” count on users’ posts.
My house is filled with books. Bookshelves on bookshelves, stacks on stacks, basically every corner of the house stuffed to the brim with all the stories I grew up with.
To many, the term freestyling immediately inspires a vision of the XXL Freshman yearly cypher, prompting nostalgia of Kodak Black’s trouncing of whoever picked that “lil sorry a** beat.”
Many have attempted to articulate the essence of what makes a cult film a cult film.
Some franchises are better, higher-quality and far more entertaining than others.
Mary Magdalene is one of the first women history robbed.
John Green’s 2005 teen novel “Looking for Alaska” is one of the few books I actively remember reading outside of the classroom in middle school, and for good reason.
In the spirit of The New York Times’ adored “Modern Love” column.
“Jazz, uh, finds a way,” or so says Jeff Goldblum’s Spotify playlist.
Scrolling through Instagram, I can never avoid posts asking for a return to the “Old Disney”: the Disney Channel movies and TV shows that defined childhood in the late ‘90s and early 2000s.
Amazon Prime’s newest anthology series, which premiered Oct. 18, follows a string of New Yorkers in search of one connection to make it all worthwhile.
Divorced from visuals and performances, Robert Eggers’s screenplays read like landmark pieces of American theater still studied and performed for their enduring relevance.
