Unwinnable

BattleCards

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • March 27th, 2023

Like scratch-offs, but with monsters!

A still from Querelle shows a sailor leaning against a telephone pole as a theatrical sun sets behind him.

1982

By Oluwatayo Adewole • March 24th, 2023

This month we’re taking on two grand pieces of homoeroticism, Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s final film Querelle and Judas Priest’s Screaming for Vengeance.

Eyeing Elsewhere

Three boys skateboard down a New York street.

Behind the Camera

By Phillip Russell • March 23rd, 2023

While the subjects of Minding the Gap share a love for skateboarding, the heart of the documentary lies in the shared histories and traumas surrounding domestic abuse.

Feature Excerpt

A cloaked figure holding a sword gazes across a barren landscape of red fog and blackened soil.

The Environmental Horror of Elden Ring

By Kathryn Hemmann • March 22nd, 2023

Caelid resists the post-apocalyptic fantasy that the detrimental effects of human activity on the environment are temporary and reversible.

Feature Excerpt

Hope and Sacrifice in Andor

By Kiernan Elam • March 21st, 2023

Andor paints a clear and lucid picture of the absolute power authoritarians can wield over people and how cruel fascism must be in order to preserve that power.

A Time to Harvest

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • March 20th, 2023

Maybe don’t go collecting rocks and folklore in the hills of Vermont?

Screenshot from the trailer for The Conjuring, featuring the exorcist couple doing a little peekaboo in a spooky basement

Horror’s Path Through Christian Cosmology

By Lyana Rodriguez • March 17th, 2023

Howlikely is it that you find a monster justifying something truly dangerous and soul-crushing with a bit of Scripture? How easy is it, especially now, to discover a religious bigot justifying the shedding of blood for the sake of their own personal crusade?