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A screenshot from The Bat Woman where a fishman is on underwater camera maybe or some other ancient monitoring device he's just swimming around loving life

Wrestling and Sex: Three Mexican Wrestling Films from Director Rene Cardona

By Orrin Grey • April 19th, 2024

While all three of the films that we’re discussing today may not have been released in alternate cuts with sexo in the title, all three are definitely films that are skirting Mexican censors of the late ‘60s and using sex appeal to help sell their stories of masked wrestlers, lycanthropes, mad science, swinging spies, and… lepers?

Feature Excerpt
A still from Children of Men shows a man leading a woman and her just-born child through a throng of soldiers.

Apocalyptic Pregnancy

By Natasha Ochshorn • April 19th, 2024

Perhaps an emotional response to a presidential election year, the weather, uncontrolled rent, or genocide – people on a large scale are questioning parenting as an ethical choice.

Here's the Thing
A still from Netflix's reboot of She-Ra showing Catra and Adora being moody on a bridge at sunset.

Why I Watch YouTube Reactions

By Rob Rich • April 12th, 2024

React videos, as eye-rolling as the concept can be, are a way for me to relive important moments for the first time by proxy.

Feature Excerpt
An incomplete jigsaw puzzle featuring Stitch from Disney's Lilo & Stitch.

This is Your Badness Level: Lilo & Stitch and Mental Health

By Orrin Grey • March 26th, 2024

Sometimes watching a cute little blue alien struggle with the same things we struggle with can make it a little easier, at least for a while.

Noah's Beat Box

Watching Kubrick on My Phone

By Noah Springer • March 13th, 2024

To be fair, I have never seen a Kubrick movie in theaters, so this entire thing may be flawed from the get-go.

Artwork for the game Watch Dogs 2 with a portrait of the lead on the right wearing a black face mask, ball cap, sunglasses, and headphones as they look intently at his mobile phone, hacking

Escape from Tomorrow

By Zonghang Zhou • March 12th, 2024

The greatest pity is that Marcus does not succeed where Aiden has failed – to rebuild.

Casting Deep Meteo
A shirtless Patrick Swayze practices his fightin' moves in a still from Road House.

Road House Ronin

By Levi Rubeck • March 12th, 2024

Miyamoto Usagi and Dalton’s stories aren’t totally parallel, but they rhyme in a lot of ways.

Here Be Monsters
A screenshot from Dead Space shows a terrifying space monster attacking Isaac Clarke as he tries to scramble away backwards in his spacesuit.

In Defense of the Jump Scare: A Manifesto

By Emma Kostopolus • March 5th, 2024

Jump scares function as a necessary pressure-release valve for the experience of watching horror, thus allowing the experience to be less unrelentingly tiring.

Exploits Feature

The Century-Long Humanification of King Kong

By Van Dennis • March 1st, 2024

Heavy is the head that wears the crown.

Run It Back
A shot from Wong Kar-wai's Fallen Angels shows a man leaning forward with a cigarette hanging from his mouth while a woman leans tenderly against his back.

1995

By Oluwatayo Adewole • February 28th, 2024

In both Fallen Angels and The Doom Generation we follow dreamers.

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