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Reboots are all the rage, or at least they were in 2011. Planet of the Apes gets another turn at the Reboot process with Rise of the Planet of the Apes. It’s a film that has aged remarkably well over ...

Despite what the Grammys and Twitter stan armies would have you believe, music is not a competition. Sure, it’s competitive in the sense that every industry is competitive, but there are no win/loss records, no championship titles, and no playoffs.  ...

If you’ve been visiting The Postrider for a while, you’ve probably noticed a slight change in the banner across the site. We used to list individual vertices for Politics, Music, Movies & TV, Culture, and occasionally a few other things. ...

Is there a more ethically fraught genre of television than true crime documentaries? Reality TV shows may be built on lies and instances of mental abuse but, for the most part, everyone who appears on The Bachelor or Love Island ...

Back when I ranked all 30 Major League Baseball logos, I talked about how my early interest in sports as a child was really an early interest in logos and uniforms. What I left out is that the NHL, more ...

At some point after age 14, I grew out of Seth MacFarlane’s typical shtick, as everyone should. Yes, there are funny moments in Ted and Family Guy has some good jokes hidden beneath the “bits” so ingrained in American pop ...

A couple weeks ago, Mac DeMarco informed everyone that he would be releasing One Wayne G, a 199 song album.  Like, 199 in one album. Not broken up into smaller versions, not spread out over a year. One whole shebang.  ...

If the last few elections paint any picture, it's that a blue Texas is probably a matter of when, not if. Even if takes decades for Democrats to build an advantage in the Lone Star State, a win is likely far sooner than you think.

In 2015, Major League Baseball held an online, fan-driven vote to determine the greatest living players of all time, the results of which were revealed at that year’s All-Star Game. Once the ballots were cast and counted and the mid-summer ...

Many of America's great cities have yet to host a major party convention. In this piece, our Politics Editor suggests five cities that meet the political needs of the 21st century.

Ron DeSantis and Tim Scott enter the race and Lars and Michael hop back in to check on their primary draft! Check out the lineup and trade record here and listen to the discussion happen live in our latest Politics Express episode. ...

I have to admit that I don’t always understand what Mo Troper is going for. The prolific Portland, Oregon songwriter’s cracked, sometimes crude take on power-pop straddles the line between earnestness and irony, delivering otherwise sweet lyrics with a warped, ...

The major political party's conventions in 2024 are underwhelming. One is located in the most popular convention city... the other in the city the other party used four years prior. Does this matter?

In a drastic change for the show, Michael and Louis decide to watch a movie that’s actually good: Sam Mendes’ Road to Perdition, an Oscar-winning flick that most of you probably didn’t realize was even based on a comic book. ...

There are three celebrities I feel confident that, in an approval poll of Millennials from around 2019, would poll at over 90%: Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, and John Mulaney. Or at least he would have. A former writer for Saturday Night ...

Tim Burton is an interesting choice to direct for a Planet of the Apes film. What might be interesting in theory doesn’t hold up much in practice. The Visitors are at a real loss to say anything complimentary regarding this ...

Do you have strong feelings about the political goings-on in the United States? I bet you do – so please read on! One of my favorite things about The Postrider is that, no matter how broad or narrow this project ...

Earlier this year, I covered the announcement of the release of Wednesday’s Rat Saw God and boygenius’ the record in the same article. I did so because both announcements were made on the same day, and because both albums figured ...

Michael and Louis discuss the 1996 Steel film, one of the first major superhero movies to star a Black actor, but one that unfortunately also looks like a Disney Channel original movie.

Politics Editor Lars Emerson is joined by Chris Choban to discuss the debt ceiling — what it is, why it exists, why it’s dangerous, and how can America get out of the pattern of debt ceiling impasses (yes, the trillion ...

Climate change is a serious problem deserving of a radical solution. But a lot of people (and the party's own electoral prospects) will be hurt if Democrats throw the baby out with the bathwater and ignore the role fossil fuels play in any transition.