Looking back on the show’s first season as we are now deep into an era of endless shoveling of trite nostalgia and meaningless revivals.…
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A new 'Hellraiser' movie has come out starring a trans woman as Pinhead, and this serves as a jumping off point to discuss the role of disgust in horror and how it connects with the role of disgust in politics. …
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Veronica Phillips reflects on 'Nope' and its depiction of California life, and the haunting worlds of bland hills and blinding lights.…
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Baz Luhrmann's musical spectacles are lively celebrations as well as moving reflections.…
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Frances from ‘Conversations with Friends’ is better at communication via text than in real life, an awkwardness and emotional reticence that has resonated with so many Gen Z.…
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Despite the differences between the two couples in ‘Rouge,’ both find themselves enthralled with an idealized love, even if that devotion is unobtainable. …
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Advertisements Twenty years ago, when Mark Romanek’s psychological thriller One Hour Photo was released, Roger Ebert, in a review, described its protagonist Seymour “Sy” Parrish (Robin Williams) as being similar to the murderer Mark Lewis (Carl Boehm) in Michael Powell’s 1960 horror-thriller Peeping Tom. Where Mark…
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Looking back on the film that still defines many of the tropes and themes of the woman-stalking-woman film as it exists today in more detail highlights the ways in which tacit lesbophobia and cultural anxieties about gender nonconformity undergird all woman stalker…
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Scoundrel. Adventurer. Blade Runner… In an unparalleled career Harrison Ford has done it all, helping to create enough iconic characters to fill a museum – yet even at age 80 he seems determined that those revolutionary heroes should not sit collecting dust.…
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The major antagonist of The Boys is a terrifying vision of conservative culture and the masks it can hide behind.…
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