By: Mark Kingwell

Every kid I knew had a favourite Thunderbird.

By: Alix Lambert

In slowness there is a value, anticipation, a treasuring of the physical object.

By: Tony Arcabascio

Nothing could fuck with me when I had that extra skin on.

By: Devin McKinney

The machines are our friends. They want to help.

By: Annie Nocenti

Locke slips out of his own clothes and into Robertson’s life.

By: Guy Trebay

Both a key to the plot and a kind of subliminal tell.

By: Chris Lanier

The tinny smallness of the IKARIE XB-1 acquires an urgent poignancy.

By: Jonathan Lethem

It’s a sort of talisman or conch shell from which Ish derives his authority.

By: Dave Walker

“Only six of these cameras were ever made. Only five of them ever worked. We have four of those.”

By: Madeline Ashby

They’re bargained for and killed for and they’re worth sacrificing marriages for.

By: Dan Fox

The movie’s meaning is dreamily fungible.

By: June Thomas

A classic piece of working-class chic.

By: Vanessa Berry

The marlin seems less like a trophy and more like a familiar.

By: Kio Stark

“She’ll be like one of those robots in Disneyland.”

By: Carolina A. Miranda

He doesn’t so much play the accordion as let it play him.