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May
03
A blonde white woman in a black leather outfit lies in a pool of water. She is crying.

How to be effectively Lynchian

7 min read
Apr
05
Sydney Sweeney, hair done up in curls, hood around her head, tears up in extreme close-up.

Immaculate and horror's increasingly brazen death cults

5 min read
Mar
23
Paul stands atop a rocky outcropping to address his throngs of followers in Dune: Part 2.

Dune: Part 2 and (trans)gender prophecies

5 min read
Mar
06
Godzilla rises against a backdrop of forested hills and cloudy sky. He looks mad, but he always looks mad.

My top 21 movies of 2023

It was a great year for movies. Here are a bunch that made it so.
13 min read
Mar
01
Lisa pops up at school in a stylish black dress, belt, and sunglasses. She looks amazing.

25 minutes on... Lisa Frankenstein

7 min read
Feb
16
Greta Lee and Teo Yoo stare soulfully into each other's eyes on a subway in Past Lives.

February mailbag!

7 min read
Feb
07
Barbie, beautiful and blonde and dressed in pink, looks into a mirror that doesn't have glass in it.

Forever 2014

What we get mad about when we get mad about Barbie's Oscar snubs
18 min read
Feb
02
A girl talks to a man. They're both dressed in formalwear. The man leans on an upside-down photo of a couple.

How Edward Yang's Yi Yi helps you keep track of over a dozen major characters

6 min read
Jan
17
Sheldon (an egg with two chicken legs sticking out) and his chick brother Booker in the cartoon Garfield and Friends.

Toward a definition of "Egg Cinema"

How movies made by seeming cis people sometimes end up super trans.
10 min read
Nov
29
Key art for The Holly and the Ivy shows Ralph Richardson, Denholm Elliott, and Margaret Leighton.

The best Christmas movie you've (probably) never heard of

The Holly and the Ivy is both deeply old-fashioned and unexpectedly modern.
7 min read