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To Your Eternity: Sticking to the Pilot

Warning: The following article contains spoilers for the Pilot episode of To Your Eternity. One of the hottest spring season anime of 2021, To Your Eternity, took me completely by surprise. Compared to most other anime with powerful pilot episodes (That Time…

My Name is Pauli Murray (Film) Review

A confidant of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. The inspiration to Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. A colleague of another Supreme Court Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg. This is the legacy of Pauli Murray, the non-binary Black lawyer, and author that is the subject…

Awards Season Checkup – Fall Festival Edition

As Labor Day approaches, cinephiles and film fans will be flocking towards the big fall festivals that signify the unofficial start of the awards season. Most films that studios intend to aim for the Academy Awards, and the boosted economic and social…

2021 Hollywood Critics Association TV Awards Announce Winners

On Sunday evening, the Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) presented their inaugural awards ceremony for the best in this season of television. Apple TV+’s Ted Lasso was the biggest winner of the evening, winning four awards including Best Streaming Comedy series and winning every category…

The Legacy of Media Comes from Fans

I’m sure whenever I get on my soapbox about television, fandom, and things like the audience contract that someone out there cringes. However, after seeing a few more controversial endings of series (such as Supernatural recently) I have come to consider something…

Women and Queerness in Horror: The Handmaiden

Warning: This article contains spoilers for The Handmaiden, discussions of adult themes, and mentions of abuse, child sexual abuse, suicide, sexual assault and harassment. Having recovered my brain from last week’s need for a mental and emotional break, I have now jumped…

Women and Queerness in Horror: The Perfection

Warning: This article contains spoilers for The Perfection, mentions of sex and violence, mentions of self-harm, and mentions of child sexual abuse and rape. Last week, I talked about the meandering, lesbian-fear-inflected Single White Female. I went into all the ways it…

How Lovecraftian is Apostle (2018), anyway?

Warning: This article contains spoilers for Apostle, images of violence and blood, and mentions of racism. Many a horror fan and purveyor of all things cosmic and monster-kind, has reached the point in their fandom life of disavowing H.P. Lovecraft. Not all…

Women and Queerness in Horror: CAM

Warning: This article contains spoilers for Cam. Recently, I finally got around to watching Cam. I have a lot to say about this movie, but my biggest takeaway is that I absolutely loved it. Isa Mazzei’s script is confronting and thought-provoking while…

Women and Queerness in Horror: Jennifer’s Body

Warning: This Article Contains Spoilers for Jennifer’s Body. Lately, I’ve been listening to a lot of podcasts, both fictional and non-fictional alike. One thread has emerged in my preferences though. I like listening to women and queer people talk. Generally, that’s a…