Patrick Bender

How an Anime Tech Cult Can Help Us Grasp the Ethics Behind Game Development

A video game designer and purveyor of “mixed reality” takes a long, hard look through his headset at a heady ‘Bebop’ episode.

Makoto Shinkai's follow-up to 'Your Name.' dramatizes its characters' feelings with rain.

Thanks for tuning into toons with us over the past ten months or so.

A bone to pick with the great librarians of cinema.

In ‘The Hunchback of Notre-Dame,’ the physical beauty of the cathedral is dwarfed only by the warmth of its living stone.

Did we need another adaptation? This movie proves we did.

One question, split into two categories.

Our back to school special! Here’s how Cartoon Network’s first miniseries obsessed over woodwinds in the best way possible.

What may have felt freeing in 1999 feels lazy and unhinged now.