Life in the Human World is Far from Perfect: Watching Saga of the Phoenix (1989) Without Knowing What’s Going On By Orrin Grey • January 8th, 2026 The Hell Virgin is actually a pretty good-natured sort.
Don't Stop Believing How Art Helped Me in 2025 By Elijah Beahm • January 8th, 2026 We might not even realize it as it happens, but what we engage with shapes us.
Mind Palaces Bad Good Ideas By Maddi Chilton • January 7th, 2026 I am on board, conceptually, with Adaptation’s ambition.
Feature Story Children of the Charnel House By Orrin Grey • December 23rd, 2025 The story of Frankenstein, like so many others, has become something else, something that we each build for ourselves, piece by piece.
Nonhuman Meditations Layla was a Skater Bot By Alyssa Wejebe • December 18th, 2025 Robotic characters in fiction have long provided another metaphorical arena for human stories to play out.
Totally Generic Watching Weapons By Natasha Ochshorn • December 12th, 2025 Everyone is watching each other but very few are keeping an eye out.
Mind Palaces 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.
No Place for Heroes: Surviving in Spaaaaaaace with Outland (1981) and Red Planet (2000) By Orrin Grey • November 19th, 2025 Both look and sound probably about as good as their source material would ever allow them to, which honestly isn’t bad in either case.
What a Way to Live: Gary Sherman’s Eegah, aka Death Line (1972) By Orrin Grey • October 27th, 2025 The cannibalism angle is played up in the alternate title, Raw Meat.
The Nerve of That Guy: At a Halloween Party with Abel Ferrara’s Ms. 45 (1981) By Orrin Grey • October 20th, 2025 Despite its obvious genre trappings, Ms. 45 is a hard film to pigeonhole.
