Every film lover can agree that loving a film you didn’t expect to is probably one of the best feelings, when your heart hurts afterwards, but in the best way. … Continue reading ‘Rocketman’: Everything a Biopic Should Be
There’s plenty of teenage kicks in summer flicks, with the good ol’ wet hot summer having always been the backdrop for young love. Summer holidays are portrayed as a pivotal … Continue reading Summer Lovin’: Romantic and Sexual Liberation in Coming of Age Films
We’ve been told about the rise of a new genre of horror in the past few years – ‘elevated’ horror, which is supposedly a bit smarter, intellectual and above the … Continue reading Down With Elevated Horror
Over the weekend, we received our first real glimpse of Hulu’s upcoming limited series based on John Green’s first novel, Looking for Alaska. In the heavily color graded, minute long … Continue reading ‘Looking for Alaska’ Preview: Who is the Adaptation for in 2019?
Call me dumb, call me uncultured, call me anything you want, but I’d choose to watch a cheesy romantic comedy over a “good” film like Fight Club or Pulp Fiction … Continue reading Love Languages: The Curious Case of Writers in Rom-Coms
When a show comes out that’s created by a woman, stars women, and is to its core about women, it’s hard not to be excited. When those women are Lisa … Continue reading Why Netflix Shouldn’t Have Cancelled ‘Tuca & Bertie’
The following article contains spoilers for Ari Aster’s Midsommar. One of the principal criticisms of Midsommar is that it’s main thematic assertion is that international travel is dangerous. Cultural critic Richard … Continue reading ‘Midsommar’ and The Big White Cult
Watching Alton Meyers (Jaeden Lieberher) be introduced in Midnight Special was like being thrown back in time. We first see him cocooned in an old motel sheet; his hunched frame … Continue reading He’s Not Like Us: ‘Midnight Special’s Queer Otherness
I feel like a bad bi girl for saying this, but I’ve never watched Wynonna Earp. Even more criminal, I never watched Supergirl past season one, and I don’t plan … Continue reading Here We Go Again: Why I’m Sick of The Way Lesbian Relationships Are Portrayed on TV
Some of the most memorable, iconic images in children’s media from the last century can be attributed to animation, two dimensional in particular. Cinderella’s Princess transformation, the Iron Giant’s flight … Continue reading Disney Remakes: The Implications For 2D Animation
I used to actually quite like Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill films. Kill Bill: Vol. 2 I’ve always found unforgivably ponderous and embarrassingly portentous, but not without its moments of excitement. … Continue reading Revisiting Kill Bill: Why I No Longer Enjoy The Tarantino Classics
Recently, I had the pleasure of watching the Tetsuya Nakashima film Kamikaze Girls for the first time. It’s a saturated wonderland of a film. It is as charming as it … Continue reading Are They or Aren’t They? A Call For Less “Coding” And More Explicitly LGBT Characters In Modern Film
