Nothing's Ever New with Ryan Shaw
2016 Pop Culture Mount Rushmores
<p>Ten years later, 2016 still feels like it’s running the playlist in your head and picking your comfort watches when you’re tired. We’re marking the 10-year anniversary by building 2016 Pop Culture Mount Rushmores, the kind of friend-group argument that instantly turns into receipts, hot takes, and “wait, that was THAT year?” energy. <br/><br/>We start with the best movies of 2016 and chase both craft and cultural gravity: Rogue One as the Star Wars outlier that stays grounded, Arrival as sci-fi that hits like a human drama, and the Moonlight and La La Land pairing that can’t be separate...

