As the COVID-19 pandemic worsens, let the movies be an example in the fight against coronavirus. It’s time to look past politics and get a firm grip on reality. Wearing a mask has proven to be an easy and important way to stem the spread of this deadly virus, yet many people still aren’t doing it. This has nothing to do with the left or the right, pride or ego - this is just pure scientific fact. Protect yourselves and others. Wear a mask.

Everyone knows about mega-popular YouTube channels such as ScreenJunkies, CinemaSins, and ScreenRant - together, these channels and many like them publish breezy video entertainment like 20 Avengers: Endgame Theories That Could Be True, Everything Wrong With Crazy Rich Asians, and 7 Most Underrated Cult Movies. However, YouTube is also fantastic avenue to deliver pop culture analysis and video commentary beyond the fluff of clever snark and video listicles, so today we’re going to take a look at five of my favorite film and pop culture YouTubers that perhaps offer a more insightful look at movies and the cinematic world. From horror nuts to nerdy writers, here are 5 Film and Pop Culture YouTubers to Watch Right Now.

Un-American. Treasonous. Racist. Sexist. Instead of describing the next embarrassing farce of the current American political landscape, this incendiary hyperbole is being used to characterize an innocuous Neil Armstrong biopic as one of the worst things to ever happen in Hollywood. Immune from neither the right nor the left, Damien Chazelle’s First Man is a strange casualty of today’s outrage culture, an ugly trend that is slowly suffocating productive discourse in favor of holier-than-thou fist-waving. Empathy and meaningful dialogue are dying, and the current zeitgeist has spoken in the voice of an absurd motto: if you’re not mad about everything, then you don’t care about anything.