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A still from Barquero of a rugged man leaning forward in the bright sun, a beat up hat on his head and a well-worn shirt worn open barely hanging on to his shoulders.

A Fistful of Westerns

By Maddi Chilton • January 30th, 2026

There’s nothing as satisfying as a well-framed shot of a horse running fast.

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A still from Adaptation features Nicholas Cage in a dual role as twin brothers, mid conversation in a dimly lit living room.

Bad Good Ideas

By Maddi Chilton • January 7th, 2026

I am on board, conceptually, with Adaptation’s ambition.

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Clea Duvall and Natasha Lyonne gaze at each other in a dance club in this still from But I’m a Cheerleader!.

Does This Dress Make Me Look Straight

By Maddi Chilton • December 3rd, 2025

Walking away from the practice of homogenous heterosexual cohesion is just as legitimate as walking towards it.

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A lonely, derelict house sits solemnly in a field of long grass.

All Houses Are Haunted (By Heterosexuality)

By Maddi Chilton • October 30th, 2025

In both Sarah Waters’ The Paying Guests and Yael van der Wouden’s The Safekeep, the lesbian main character keeps a neat, controlled house in lieu of a more traditional home life with a husband.

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Key art from Promise Mascot Agency featuring the main cast of characters standing against a slightly washed out background.

Money Makes Kaso-Machi Go Round

By Maddi Chilton • September 5th, 2025

The most important thing to take from this is that the question of the relationship between cozy games and capitalism is 1) interesting and 2) unresolved.

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Wor(l)dplay

By Maddi Chilton • July 31st, 2025

I want to be clear that the vast majority of the time I have no idea what the members of KAJ are talking about.

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A photograph of turquoise seas under a perfect blue sky, a white-sand beach stretching across the frame.

The Indefinable Allure of a Summer Reading Program

By Maddi Chilton • June 27th, 2025

If a summer reading program hadn’t presented itself to me, I would have gone looking for it anyway, because I am a sucker for this shit.

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Sean Connery in The Name of the Rose, with two big round lenses in front of his eyes. What a poindexter.

Where in the World Is William of Baskerville?

By Maddi Chilton • April 8th, 2025

Obsidian set themselves an interesting task in translating a story that’s legendary for being dense and obscure into an interactive medium.

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A cropped photo of the author's bookshelves, spines neatly aligned.

Shelf Life

By Maddi Chilton • March 4th, 2025

I think if I died tomorrow, you’d get a good idea of who I was by looking at my books.

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A still from Sleuth (1972) featuring Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine dressed to the nines on the grounds of a grand English estate.

Here’s Why I Should Be Allowed to Make Another Sleuth Movie

By Maddi Chilton • February 4th, 2025

I have spent the entire year bringing up these movies through any conceivable justification, and now it’s your turn to suffer.

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