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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.

A screenshot from the trailer for Conan the Barbarian, where the title warrior is shirtless on a beach swinging with his sword drawn gracefully above his head

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
A still from Twilight shows Bella Swan surprised the person she's speaking with could even think such a thing. She's too cool for school!

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
A still from Saltburn shows the partially robed main character from behind, gazing outward across the lawn of a large estate scattered with the remnants of a wild party.

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.

A screenshot from the Queen's Gambit where Jolene smiles with her face in her hands laying next to Beth Harmon who is intensely studying a book

(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.

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