Alex Maher

The 3-Minute Beginners Guide to Understanding ‘Xavier: Renegade Angel’

Adult Swim’s weirdest show melted my mind and soul forever. Ten years later, here are a dozen tidbits worth revisiting.

Here are six things I’ve learned from that experience.

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Or: The Evolution and Devolution of Dragon Ball Z’s once-powerful son.

All traumatized children would bring their parents back to life if they could. The Elrics show us why the past should stay dead.

These nonagenarian cinematic shorts remain the Walt Disney Company's most cutting-edge contributions to animation.

But the film, which was screened at Fantasia 2019, suffers from not having a clear direction.

Talking Nickelodeon with Fred Seibert, the backstage architect of your childhood.

For better or worse.

But the source material for the film, which premiered at Fantastia 2019, happens to predate the Disney blockbuster's by roughly two centuries.

The meaning of life isn’t hidden in the markets of Hanoi, waiting to be unearthed.

The most rambunctious Crystal Gem is still trying to figure it out, and that’s OK.