What is Best in Life: Conan Movies on 4K By Orrin Grey • February 14th, 2024 When the pouty virginal princess asks Zula how one goes about getting a man, no one but Grace Jones could sell her response, as she growls, “You grab him! And take him!”
Self-Insert Mary Sue By Amanda Hudgins • February 2nd, 2024 She is you, a teenager who is stuck in a small town with no friends, with cruel acquaintances who don’t love any of the things that you do, who has been told for years that boys bully you because they like you.
Run It Back Sex and Cinema By Oluwatayo Adewole • January 30th, 2024 At the same time as a quasi-accepting era which brings us more art focused on marginalized people, a soft Hayes Code re-emerges, allowing for the clean lines of queerness but not the smudges.
(Hopefully) Waving Goodbye to the Trope of the Magical Negro By Brea Shanice • January 3rd, 2024 Years have passed and Beth has grown into an adult with her own full-blown addiction and untreated trauma. So naturally in the middle of her descent, her best Magical Negro friend comes back to cushion her fall.
Exploits Feature The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes By Autumn Wright • January 2nd, 2024 While The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes is a coming-of-age drama without any action – all its conflict is psychological – it still invokes all these tropes.
This Town Needs Me: It’s a Wonderful Knife (2023) By Orrin Grey • December 20th, 2023 This is a film where the plot and performances are more stylized than the shooting and, as a result, is a disjointed, tonal mess.
A Scene That Defies Belief: Godzilla Minus One (2023) By Orrin Grey • December 5th, 2023 As with Shin Godzilla, this is an attempt to return to Godzilla’s roots as a purely destructive force. There is no way in which this Godzilla is a “good guy,” even as roundaboutly as the one from the MonsterVerse films.
Run It Back 1979 2019 By Oluwatayo Adewole • December 1st, 2023 This month we turn our attention to Coppola’s 1979 epic Apocalypse Now, and more specifically to its 2019 Final Cut.
Eyeing Elsewhere Boots on the Ground By Phillip Russell • November 30th, 2023 Killers of the Flower Moon is a complicated film, less so because of the story it tells, and more so with how it’s told and by whom.
