movies
The Wild Robot and Flow present oddly hopeful post-apocalypses
What does the world look like after humans? Two animated films have some ideas.
Mailbag
December mailbag!
What's the difference between a New Year's movie and a Christmas movie? Also: the Muppets AND The Polar Express.
movies
How the Wicked film brings the book's queerness back into the spotlight
It's all about the talking goat.
queer
LGBTQ+ people are not going back
This post is (somehow) about Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited.
discussion
What's something you thought you would hate but ended up loving?
My answer isn't Wicked, but only because I haven't seen it yet.
movies
2024: The year in trans cinema (made by cis people)
In a year rich with films made by trans people, a trans movie made by cis people scoops up all the hype.
movies
Robert Zemeckis's Here might remind you of AI-generated art
I promise this is a compliment! (Sort of.)
TV
Liked Saturday Night? Here are more backstage TV stories that should be movies.
From game show shenanigans to the early days of ESPN.
movies
The transness inherent to The Substance
The new body-horror film is deeply trans... as all body-horror films are.
Mailbag
September mailbag
Including thoughts on the Emmys, the future of cultural criticism, and Oscar forums.
horizon: an american saga
Kevin Costner's Horizon is really more of a 12-hour TV show
Has Kevin Costner accidentally solved the "more of a ten-hour movie" problem?
music
Chappell Roan and our ever more parasocial world
In 2024, we're all living out Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation -- on both ends.