The Shape of the Devil By Carl Lewandowski • August 31st, 2018 Hereditary twists gendered expectations, using gender as a tool to contribute to its disorienting, unsettling atmosphere.
here’s 2300 words on twilight and new moon By Amanda Hudgins • August 27th, 2018 Twilight at its core, is barely functional as a romance, but deeply fascinating as a tragedy where two distinct cultures interact and implode around each other.
Documentary Sunday Won’t You Be My Neighbor? By Megan Condis • August 24th, 2018 How do we teach kids about the complicated modern topics that throw even grown-ups for a loop? This looks like a job for Mr. Rogers.
The New Godzilla Trailer is Awesome and Sublime By David Shimomura • August 21st, 2018 Together, “awe” and the “sublime” remind us of the feeling of being small before something greater than ourselves.
Fascination Damp and Rotting By Astrid Budgor • August 17th, 2018 Sweet Sweet Lonely Girl is emblematic of a certain species of horror movie; autumnal, elliptical, vaguely about lesbians in a troublingly reactionary way, and dreadfully slow
Who We Are By Jeremy Signor • August 16th, 2018 Embodying a role can allow us to step outside ourselves and examine what makes us tick.
Tau is Mindbogglingly Bland By David Shimomura • August 14th, 2018 Tau is about a woman slowly teach an AI about music, art, and history as she tried to escape from the clutches of an emotionally vacant murderer.
No Accounting For Taste Justice League and the Absence of Politics By Adam Boffa • August 13th, 2018 What is Justice League trying to say? It really isn’t sure.
Procreation of the Wicked By Astrid Budgor • August 10th, 2018 “They rip him apart as he grins, nerve-endings aflame with the liquor of pain, finally accepting an eternity of obliterative bliss.”
idk take your kid to see eighth grade By Amanda Hudgins • August 6th, 2018 Eighth Grade made me want to crawl out of my skin in a way that I haven’t felt since The Babadook but instead of a screaming child, it was middle school awkwardness
