Merry-Go-Round Magazine

05/06/2026

Opening as something much more terrifying than what follows, PASSENGER feels in over its head the very same way that its protagonists are throughout the rest of the film. In an early summer window filled with interesting horror fare, this one is skippable.

Opening as something much more terrifying than what follows, PASSENGER feels in over its head the very same way that its protagonists are throughout the rest of the film. In an early summer window filled with interesting horror fare, this one is entirely skippable.

18/05/2026

Philly based alt-country troubadours Labrador have a new album entitled THE ROSY RED WORLD, out June 5th! We have their first ever music video premiering on the site today, a bouncy classic rock'ish ditty entitled "Slow Down, King." Watch it today!

A Merry-Go-Round Magazine exclusive premiere of Labrador's debut music video and new single "Slow Down, King," out via No Way Of Knowing Records!

14/05/2026

The Mortal Kombat film franchise is “for the fans” in the same way that a cigarette break is for your mental health—a familiar, mild poison to alert the body that it is still alive.

Merry-Go-Round Magazine urges you to just say NO to MORTAL KOMBAT 2.

The Mortal Kombat film franchise is “for the fans” in the same way that a cigarette break is for your mental health—a familiar, mild poison to alert the body that it is still alive.

07/05/2026

Rooted in both medical truths and American realities, Amy Wang's SLANTED is an outrageous and entertaining body horror parable that offers a commentary that shouldn't soon be forgotten.

05/05/2026

Next week, Happy Just to See You will release their excellent third album LAST WEEK'S HORSE, among the best of the year so far. We have one more taste of the record on the site today, a premiere of their final single, the daydreaming ballad "Everything I Am." Give it a listen a day early before it hits DSPs tomorrow!

A track premiere of Happy Just To See You's latest single, "Everything I Am," the closer to their latest album LAST WEEK'S HORSE.

18/04/2026

Desperate to score easy points from its unapologetic cheesiness, YOU, ME & TUSCANY is trying, perhaps too hard, to win you over. Not without shortcomings, the film has heart, and a currently bleak indie ecosystem needs that.

13/04/2026

On Kristoffer Borgli's sordid past, Cinemascore ratings, accountability in Hollywood, and the success and reaction to THE DRAMA.

On Kristoffer Borgli's sorted past, Cinemascore ratings, accountability in Hollywood, and the success and reaction to THE DRAMA.

11/04/2026

Ambitious on paper, MADDIE'S SECRET continually presupposes ideas and themes that shouldn't work on screen. And yet, at every turn director John Early swoops in and reminds you that he’s in control, and the whole thing somehow clicks.

Ambitious in concept and on paper, MADDIE'S SECRET continually presupposes ideas and themes that shouldn't work on screen. And yet, at every turn director John Early swoops in and reminds you that he’s in control, and the whole thing somehow clicks.

29/03/2026

FORBIDDEN FRUITS never quite feels as inventive or fun as its premise and marketing would imply, a disjointed movie that has plenty of potential but comes up well shy of becoming the campy horror classic that was promised.

FORBIDDEN FRUITS never quite feels as inventive or fun as its premise and marketing would imply, a disjointed movie that has plenty of potential but comes up just shy of becoming a campy horror classic.

20/03/2026

Now 20 years after it went off air, DEADWOOD is an especially fascinating artifact from the golden era of TV, remaining something of a knotty morality test. Longtime MGRM writer Dan Blomquist goes back to consider his writing about the show 10 years ago.

20 years after it went off air, DEADWOOD remains a fascinating artifact of the golden era of television, and something of a morality test through the woke era. Longtime Merry-Go-Round writer Dan Blomquist goes back to consider his writing on the show for us 10 years ago.