Media Reviews
Reviews of the latest media worth watching, listening to, and sharing — podcasts, videos, music, films and everything else in between.
You’re Wrong About | Podcast Review
There’s a specific feeling You’re Wrong About is built to produce, and it happens almost every episode: the slow, slightly uncomfortable realization that a story you’d absorbed as settled fact — usually through decades of pop culture osmosis rather than anything you…
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Hardcore History | Podcast Review
Most history podcasts are built around episodes. Hardcore History is built around expeditions, and the distinction matters more than it sounds like it should. A single installment can run four, five, sometimes six hours, released on a schedule best described as “whenever…
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Stuff You Should Know | Podcast Review
Radiolab is one of those shows that made a whole generation of podcasters rethink what audio could do. It isn’t a science show in the classroom sense — there’s no dry recitation of facts here. Instead, it’s built like a piece of…
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99% Invisible | Podcast Review
99% Invisible starts from a simple premise — most of the designed world around us goes completely unnoticed — and builds an entire show out of making the invisible visible. A single episode might explain why manhole covers are round, how a…
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Radiolab | Podcast Review
99% Invisible starts from a simple premise — most of the designed world around us goes completely unnoticed — and builds an entire show out of making the invisible visible. A single episode might explain why manhole covers are round, how a…
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Shedunnit | Podcast Review
If you have ever finished an Agatha Christie at 1am, put the book down, and immediately wanted to phone someone — anyone — to ask whether all those poisonings were actually pharmacologically plausible or whether the country house weekend was a real…
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Backlisted | Podcast Review
There is a very specific danger that comes with listening to Backlisted, and I think it only fair to warn you about it up front: your to-be-read pile will grow, your bookshop habit will get worse, and you will start saying things…
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On Falling | Film Review
Laura Carreira’s debut feature opens not with a crisis but a beep. Then another. Then another. Aurora, a Portuguese migrant working as an order picker in a sprawling Scottish warehouse, is audibly metered by the scanner clipped to her hand — every…
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The Allusionist | Podcast Review
Language is something most of us use every day without giving it a second thought. We reach for words instinctively, string them into sentences, and move on. We rarely stop to ask where those words came from, what they once meant, or…
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