Polygon’s latest series, The Masterpieces of Streaming, looks at the new batch of classics that have emerged from an evolving era of entertainment. Like every medium before it, “video essays” on ...

Over the last decade, long-form video essays have grown in popularity — arguably entering into a boom all their own. Viewers can easily look up a video essay on just about any topic they’d like to, ...

The video essay opens with an interview clip in which Shyamalan sets his goal for the film. He states, “I’m going to make an entire movie about the first act, an entire movie about a guy realizing ...

I was putting the finishing touches on a video essay when I first heard the news about George Floyd. Titled “The Original Ending: The Last Acts of Black Horror Heroes,” it is a multi-screen ...

Movie trailers can be tricky. They can make or break a film months before it hits screens. More often than not, they are rather banal. Over the past two decades, the majority of trailers have fallen ...