CINTEGRITY's Cultural Decay

Director David Robert Mitchell might as well be the poster child for cultural decay and all that it represents in contemporary film, so it is only fitting that our sixth episode in CINTEGRITY Media's Cultural Decay Series is on Mitchell's new film THE END OF OAK STREET (2026).We dive into the film's demented depiction of American suburbia. Is it satire, sincerity, or something in between? We also...

As we wait another week for The Odyssey and all it might have to say about our ongoing cultural decay, CiNTEGRITY Media travels back to 2008 and reappraises M. Night Shyamalan's much maligned film The Happening . Sorry excuse for a B-movie, or a clever reflection of our uncertainty in the face of global and environmental catastrophe? In this fifth episode of the Cultural Decay series, we close a c...

In his dogged pursuit of truth and the transformative power of pop culture, CINTEGRITY Media's Cory Stillman recently ventured to his local multiplex in search of an ancient yellow species known to mankind as the “Minions.” Indeed, in its surprising excavation of Hollywood history, Minions & Monsters has opened itself up to an entirely new audience, even as it may have lost its core demographic of...

COVID-19...a period of political turmoil and uncertainty. And yet, a surprising sense of passion and sincerity arose in the year 2020 as well. Looking back today, as Ari Aster did with 2025's Eddington , it is easy to be cynical about the way we engaged with our surroundings. And cynicism, as it turns out, is pretty damn addictive. But where does cynicism get us? Do we have a better alternative? C...

CINTEGRITY’s Cultural Decay screening/lecture series continues with a discussion of Jordan Peele’s 2022 film Nope , which shares considerable DNA with the first film in our series, Steven Spielberg’s 2026 release Disclosure Day . We revisit the extent to which the film is about “aliens” in the traditional sense, considering how Peele effectively wrongfoots his audience, and continuing our dissecti...

CINTEGRITY Media founder and host Cory Stillman welcomes you to a special screening series both affectionately and forebodingly referred to as "Cultural Decay." We kick things off with a conversation about Steven Spielberg's brand new film Disclosure Day , reckoning with the film's complicated reception, as well as its outlook on the monoculture and cultural memory. What is cultural decay? What is...