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Jonathan Lack

Boulder

I'm critic, scholar, and podcaster Jonathan Lack, PhD candidate @UIowa. Links to podcasts and more at https://t.co/uGooSph0Hm

Articles

  • 6 days ago | jonathanlack.com | Jonathan Lack

    It’s time for the first May installment of Purely Academic, a variety podcast hosted by Jonathan Lack and Sean Chapman. For ‘The Monthly Stuff,’ we talk about what’s going on in the news, what we’ve been watching and playing, and share a silly Top 10 list. You can subscribe for free in Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

  • 1 week ago | letterboxd.com | Jonathan Lack |Jake Schreier

    This movie is frustrating because of how much of it is genuinely good. It’s really well-directed. It looks shockingly good for Marvel. The action works. It has several great characters in Yelena, Bucky, Red Guardian, and a bunch of good performances from Pugh, Stan, Harbour, plus Julia-Louis Dreyfuss and Lewis Pullman. It actually invests in trying to build up a team of new heroes, which Marvel should have been doing 5 years ago.

  • 2 weeks ago | jonathanlack.com | Jonathan Lack

    The grim historical poetry of Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith celebrating its 20th anniversary now, in 2025, with American democracy crumbling before our eyes, is sobering.

  • 2 weeks ago | jonathanlack.com | Jonathan Lack

    Welcome to Season 5 of Japanimation Station, our Grand Tour through the wide and wonderful world of anime! You can subscribe on all platforms at JapanimationStation.Com. Takahashi Kazuki’s Yu-Gi-Oh! is a worldwide phenomenon that needs no introduction, since the anime has been airing in one incarnation or another every week for the past 25 years, and the card game is still going strong.

  • 2 weeks ago | jonathanlack.com | Jonathan Lack

    It’s time for another episode of Purely Academic, a variety podcast hosted by Jonathan Lack and Sean Chapman. Each month, we talk about our favorite video games, movies, anime, and more, having fun and maybe even learning something along the way. You can subscribe for free in Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. This month, we’re trying something new by releasing the individual segments once a week, to spread the mountain of content we recorded out over the whole month.

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Jonathan Lack
Jonathan Lack @JonathanLack
21 Apr 25

Made this graphic for a lecture this week and I’d honestly feel bad if I didn’t share it with y’all. https://t.co/VSetWR9ndQ

Jonathan Lack
Jonathan Lack @JonathanLack
21 Apr 25

RT @GreatCheshire: Film Twitter always bemoans the lack of creativity in Hollywood and superhero fatigue and yet when we finally get a trul…

Jonathan Lack
Jonathan Lack @JonathanLack
21 Apr 25

It’s Japanimation Station time again! And this week we’re reviewing the 2006 cult classic WELCOME TO THE NHK, a show about isolation, paranoia, and self harm that is also extremely funny and life affirming. Premiering now! https://t.co/46UO0x54jm