Emily St. James - Episodes (Page 23)

Tiny people riding rats go to war with each other in promotional art for the TTRPG Household.

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Pop culture weekend (Sept. 1): On vacation

What are you reading, watching, listening to, or staring at blankly?

Elizabeth (Keira Knightley) and Darcy (Matthew MacFadyen) softly embrace after declaring their love.

romance novels

Class and the modern romance novel

Romance as a genre can't escape the long shadow of that hot rich guy Mr. Darcy. Should it?

Tom Berenger, Jeff Goldblum, William Hurt, Mary Kay Place, JoBeth Williams, Glenn Close, and Kevin Kline in The Big Chill.

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Pop culture weekend (Aug. 25): The millennial Big Chill (doesn't exist)

Is it possible to define a generation's experiences anymore? Was it ever?

J. Robert Oppenheimer, played by Cillian Murphy, stares into the camera while smoking in this black-and-white image.

barbie

What we discourse about when we discourse about Barbenheimer

The discourses around Barbie and Oppenheimer have followed very similar patterns.

A father runs with his daughter on his shoulders in the movie The Broken Circle Breakdown.

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Pop culture weekend (Aug. 18): I can't watch bad things happen to fictional kids anymore.

I became a parent, and you won't believe what happened next! (Spoilers: I found watching scenes of children dying or being endangered almost completely unbearable.)

Tommy Lee Jones and Sissy Spacek star in Coal Miner's Daughter.

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Pop culture weekend (Aug. 11): Country music and hierarchies

Just how conservative is country music anyway?

Milo Ventimiglia and Mandy Moore (in a Steelers jersey) watch some TV on the couch in This Is Us.

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You are not smarter than the art you critique

Here's my best advice for young critics: Don't presume you know better.

A screengrab from the lyrics video for Taylor Swift's "August": "Back when we were still changing for the better."

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My pop culture week, your pop culture weekend - August 4 edition

August kicks off with the three of the most prominent women of our time: Taylor Swift, Leigh Bardugo, and Bluey.

The Kens from the Barbie movie grasp ad hoc weapons as they go to battle.

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I was busy thinkin' 'bout boys

What if your sexuality transitions too? What then?

The Baker and his wife hold hands onstage and sing in front of shadowy trees in Into the Woods.

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My pop culture week, your pop culture weekend - July 28 edition

This week includes thoughts on Wayne's World, Into the Woods, A Fever in the Heartland, Barbie, and Oppenheimer.

Murph, leans against a pickup near her father, Coop, in Interstellar. They are by a cornfield.

Episodes 6.0

My pop culture week, your pop culture weekend - July 21 edition

Miles Morales and Gwen Stacy overlook the New York skyline. Upside down. Almost holding hands. Not quite.

Across the Spider-Verse

Across the Spider-verse is not half a movie. C'mon, now.

(Since I published my last newsletter, SAG-AFTRA joined the WGA in a strike against the AMPTP. SAG-AFTRA has asked its members to cease promotion of projects for AMPTP signatories. I'm not a SAG-AFTRA member, and journalism and criticism are not promotional. That said, I am also not strictly

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