The Emancipation of Harley Quinn from Suicide Squad By Amanda Hudgins • February 17th, 2020 Birds of Prey is the equivalent of an exorcism of Suicide Squad, the bloated carcass of FYE excess that DC had pulled into a back alley to die.
A Review of the Three Descendants Movies That No One Asked For By Amanda Hudgins • February 10th, 2020 Maleficent’s daughter looks to camera and announces, through song of course, that she is “rotten to the core.”
Color Out of Space is Purple By Amanda Hudgins • January 27th, 2020 It’s only been a few days since I watched Color Out of Space, under a week really, and it ran through me like a bad taste — unfortunate, short lived, and quickly forgotten.
The Beautiful World of Jeffree Star By Amanda Hudgins • January 20th, 2020 There’s probably some academic who would be able to stay what stage of capitalism is a multi-part expose about the beauty industry that is actually a seven part ad for a makeup palette.
A Travelogue in Wanderlust and Medicine in 7 Parts By Amanda Hudgins • October 29th, 2019 2018 was the year of travel and 2019 was the year of crying in parking lots over healthcare
A Love Letter to Bit Bash By Amanda Hudgins • August 19th, 2019 I didn’t have an idea except I wanted to smash guitars on stage, and I knew that if I was ever going to do this, it would have to be Bit Bash. I thought they would say no.
Mario Maker 2EZ By Amanda Hudgins • July 29th, 2019 Probably because game design is dead, but also because it’s kind of fun in a “piss off your parents and slide down the hardwood floors in your hallways with furniture polish on your socks” kind of way.
Dancing to the Drama on TikTok By Amanda Hudgins • July 15th, 2019 No editorial has ever grasped the weirdness of some Gen-Z kids dancing in the corpse of a closing J.C. Penney while a teenage girl scream-sings the Bishop Briggs song “River.”
A Review of Pluto TV Commercials By Amanda Hudgins • June 10th, 2019 Trapped in a world of re-runs of Forensic Files and World Poker Tour, I found myself drawn to one particular thing: the commercials of Pluto TV.
Self-Insert A+ Parenting By Amanda Hudgins • May 12th, 2019 Fanfics dive into how one generation’s crappy fictional dad makes the next generation’s neurotic protagonist.
Endgame and the Specter of Representation By Amanda Hudgins • May 6th, 2019 Endgame is such an excellent example of fan service being used to wash the sins of a deeply mediocre film.
The Marvel Cinematic Universe is a Failure By Amanda Hudgins • April 23rd, 2019 There is no real plotting across the arc of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. There is no arc of the MCU.
Consensual Violence By Amanda Hudgins • April 8th, 2019 Blood sports are an active brutality on the lives on the participants, a grotesque display of physicality and punishment that leaves them pummeled on the side of the road.
Self-Insert The Unsinkable Darcy Lewis By Amanda Hudgins • December 7th, 2018 A side character from Thor has almost 15,000 fanfics featuring her. Amanda Hudgins asks the question: Why does Darcy Lewis persist?
Fantastic Beasts 2 the Crime of Cinema By Amanda Hudgins • December 3rd, 2018 There are no circumstances in which you should see this movie.
The Unstable Sexuality of Joji By Amanda Hudgins • November 19th, 2018 He’s got a dangerous sort of attraction, a wild romanticism that calls out for attention in ways that the standard Asian male stereotype isn’t necessarily ready to handle.
The Kentucky State Fair By Amanda Hudgins • November 5th, 2018 I’m one of those rural queers you never hear about. You haven’t heard of me, only of the places I’ve been.
Exploits Feature “This is America” Parodies By Amanda Hudgins • October 1st, 2018 “This is America” has been made into a dire warning for more than just the United States.
Assassination Nation has Blood in its Teeth By Amanda Hudgins • October 1st, 2018 The moral of Assassination Nation is that high school boys are terrible and you should kill them.
Go Read DED LED By Amanda Hudgins • September 12th, 2018 This isn’t a eulogy, mostly because I doubt I would be the person to write such a thing and also because how can something actually be lost when the heart of it, the writers who crafted remarkable work and who I respect so terribly much, still exists.
here’s 2300 words on twilight and new moon By Amanda Hudgins • August 27th, 2018 Twilight at its core, is barely functional as a romance, but deeply fascinating as a tragedy where two distinct cultures interact and implode around each other.
idk take your kid to see eighth grade By Amanda Hudgins • August 6th, 2018 Eighth Grade made me want to crawl out of my skin in a way that I haven’t felt since The Babadook but instead of a screaming child, it was middle school awkwardness
Mixed CDs, Stolen By Amanda Hudgins • July 13th, 2018 14 disks in their slimline cases, carefully handwritten descriptions of each song — no more than 2 per artist. 100 songs.
Exploits Feature Praying By Amanda Hudgins • July 2nd, 2018 “You had better hope that a higher power is ready to someday forgive you, it says, because I am not.”
How I Almost Gave Up On Games By Amanda Hudgins • May 29th, 2018 I’m not one of those named faces of GamerGate, the women for whom, for better or worse, GamerGate has become a part of their identity and brand. If you think back to those most visibly affected, the ones who had it worse, I’m nobody.
What to Do When No One’s Doing Anything By Amanda Hudgins • April 11th, 2018 I’m sick of this bullshit. Publication silence on sexual misconduct and harassment in games journalism isn’t helping anyone but the accused.
Dispatches from GDC 2018: Day Three By Amanda Hudgins • March 28th, 2018 Amanda goes to GDC with a press pass. This is a Day Three of her experience.
Dispatches from GDC 2018: Day Five By Amanda Hudgins • March 23rd, 2018 Amanda goes to GDC with a press pass. This is Day 5 of her experience.
Dispatches from GDC 2018: Day Two By Amanda Hudgins • March 21st, 2018 Amanda goes to GDC with a press pass. This is Day 2 of her experience.
Dispatches from GDC 2018: Day One By Amanda Hudgins • March 20th, 2018 Amanda goes to GDC with a Press Pass. This is her daily diary of the experience.
The 10 Worst Movies of 2017 By Amanda Hudgins • December 28th, 2017 Every year has bad movies. This year, Amanda Hudgins will try to list 10 of them.
Life Dying Malls and Their Arcade Dreams By Amanda Hudgins • December 11th, 2017 At some point this Victoria’s Secret made the transition to Akiba Arcade, a small Japanese arcade full of rhythm games with large drums and bright boxes of light and sound.
Lady Bird is Good, OK By Amanda Hudgins • November 20th, 2017 Lady Bird is the first movie I’ve seen in a long while that I was happy to have watched.
500 movies in a year By Amanda Hudgins • November 3rd, 2017 There are a few things no one actually wants to hear about: your dreams, your diet, and how many movies you’ve seen this year.
mother! is bullshit By Amanda Hudgins • September 18th, 2017 I say this because I understood Darren Aronofsky’s mother! and it was bullshit.
Self-Insert Alpha/Beta/Omega FanFic By Amanda Hudgins • September 7th, 2017 The things we saw when we searched Google images for Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics to illustrate this article would make all the cenobites in Hellraiser blush.
A Ghost Story isn’t great it’s just slow By Amanda Hudgins • August 8th, 2017 A Ghost Story is the kind of intellectual garbage a friend takes you to and insists it’s capital I Important.
War for the Planet of the Apes is a Joyless Pile of References By Amanda Hudgins • July 18th, 2017 A small blonde girl runs with a flashlight down a long tunnel, opposite a wall that reads “This Way Out of Hell” til she reaches a fork, where “Ape-Ocalypse Now” is spray painted in thick white block letters.
The Book of Henry is Not So Bad It’s Good By Amanda Hudgins • June 26th, 2017 The Book of Henry is a baffling movie. It’s bizarrely bad, but there’s been some issues with coverage where people are implying that it has transcended to being a good-bad movie.
