
Aja Romano
Former Senior Culture Writer
Latest articles by Aja Romano


Richard Kelly explains how crucial Maggie G. was to the famous Darko family dinner scene.


MST3K: The Return brings us riffs, giant monsters, and at least one excruciating movie.


It attempts to mix fun teen drama with planetary genocide, but it’s not very interested in teens.


Over the course of a wide-ranging career, Rickles became a master at teaching the audience to mock itself.


Not even a CGI tiger can enliven an anticlimactic season finale.


Is the film leaning into modern horror clichés, or is the trailer just badly edited?


The latest project from the Serial team is a brilliant, complex, and incredibly invasive deep dive into one man’s life.


All seven episodes of the highly anticipated podcast are out today — but don’t expect a true crime narrative.


When did the series forget “show, don’t tell” is a cardinal rule of screenwriting?


Children of color go missing more often than white children, but their cases receive less news coverage.