Jadoo VooDooSizzle This: Are Re‑Releases Overkill or Fun Nostalgia? In ‘Sizzle This,’ The Swaddle team adds to the noise around the pop culture moment of the week. This week: is Jadoo who we need in our lives now? By The Swaddle Team
Roy Can'tTed Lasso’s New Season Drives Home Our Disillusionment With Work Culture Today The first episode of season three highlights how work culture interferes with love and loss. By Amlan Sarkar
Reality RoyaltyThe Royals Were Always a Soap Opera. ‘Spare’ Only Brings It to Light Bizarre revelations from Prince Harry's upcoming memoir show the mechanisms of the royals' celebrity. By Rohitha Naraharisetty
Tweeting a StormThe Buzz Cut: Woman’s Tweet Simultaneously Upsets National Security and Secure Nationalists This week in The Buzz Cut: a woman upsets a stable nation, another woman stuns by existing, and a man sues for the stars. By Rohitha Naraharisetty
Watchmen of CinemaBro‑y Directors Can’t Be Our Only Defense Against Marvel Amid criticisms of Marvel taking over cinema, a crop of auteur filmmakers have emerged as the vanguard against it -- but they're part of the problem too. By Amlan Sarkar
Reality CheckmateA VR Headset Can Kill a User Who Dies in a Game Virtual reality is used in war-like and war contexts already -- and it could gamify violence even more if we don't pay attention. By Rohitha Naraharisetty
The Fame Monster Under the BedAllegations of Inappropriate Conduct at Nickelodeon Raises Debate on Banning Child Acting Child actors are vulnerable to systemic harassment, abuse, and a suppression of their individuality at a crucial time, leading many to ask whether show biz should even be legal for children anymore. By Rohitha Naraharisetty
Call Out the Cop OutWhy ‘Copaganda’ Makes For Bad Entertainment An upcoming Hindi series called 'Indian Police Force' glorifies cops the way many other films have in the past -- but the ideological undertones are sobering. By Rohitha Naraharisetty
Indelicate DarlingsThe Buzz Cut: Men’s Rights Activists Call For Boycott of Movie That Deprives Men of Their Right to Be Violent This week in The Buzz Cut: men's rights activists express outrage, a woman who broke the internet now saves it, and rupee comes of age. By Rohitha Naraharisetty
Intoxicating ToxicityHow the ‘Pan‑India’ Movie Phenomenon Embodies — And Redefines — Toxic Masculinity The trailer of 'Liger', pegged as the next "pan Indian" film shares a common theme with the others: revved up hero-worship, angry masculinity, and all the makings of a cult-following. By Rohitha Naraharisetty
Reality BytesOverrated, Not: Reality TV However contrived, managed, or heavily produced, reality TV offers a glimpse into our own dark hearts -- reflecting our own desires back to us and performing a ritual of emotional purging on behalf of a society too repressed to manage it on its own. By Rohitha Naraharisetty
Entertainment EmergencyThe Buzz Cut: Actor Realizes Dream of Being Despotic in Unlikely Casting This week in The Buzz Cut: an actor represents an unlikely politician, and two TV showrunners achieve win for diversity. By Rohitha Naraharisetty
Diminishing JoyrideWhy Martin Scorsese’s Criticism of the Marvel Franchise Continues to Be Relevant A combination of streaming, franchising, and marketing thanks to the Marvel model has changed how movies are made — not necessarily for the better. By Rohitha Naraharisetty
A Ton OverlookedHow Historical Fiction on TV Rewrites Race – For Better and for Worse While 'The Gilded Age' and 'Bridgerton' get it right in terms of the facts, their bid for representation often ends up in a lack of nuance. By Rohitha Naraharisetty
