Revolution has always been theater; now the theater is a feed, and the script is written in pixels and blood.
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Trans people don’t want to be plot devices, cautionary tales, or punchlines.
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These videos claim that they were ‘meant’ to find me. However, they are also ‘meant’ to find thousands of others.
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Every time the internet launches a disproportionate hate campaign towards a young woman, I’m suspicious. I lived through the Amber Heard Trial, I lived through the Anne Hathaway hate train. Reader, I lived through GamerGate…
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Good literature — like Station Eleven — reminds us how to resist despair: by building new worlds.
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The world is burning, but we don’t really need to turn to nostalgia constantly in order to hide from it.
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In the age of celebrity worship, biopics face the challenge of capturing the essence of a life on screen. Are they a sincere tribute or a manufactured exploitation?
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Thirteen was a foundational film for complex and tender representations of poor women and girls for my generation. After 20 years, it deserves a critical reevaluation.
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Five years later, The Boys has run out of sympathy for sexual assault victims and has made them the butt of the joke.
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Opening your phone these days is a bit like playing on a slot machine. You’re in for one of two outcomes: money, or loss. Luxury lifestyles, or dead children. It’s no wonder that we’re desperately reaching out for help in any direction.
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In the cold light of Monday, we can all agree that the Oscars are kind of silly, but dammit they’re a fun silly!
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The plot follows three firefighters that have been tasked with stopping a killer shark from terrorising New Orleans. Pretty standard action movie stuff, right? However, Tommy Wiseau’s approach to storytelling is to ignore all the rules on how to tell a story.
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Mean Girls — the movie, the musical, the movie (again?), and the mediocrity.
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I’m not mad Saltburn, I’m just disappointed.
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