TV/FILM
Gretchen Felker-Martin Jan 24, 2022. 2 minute read
‘Framing Agnes’ Review: Slight, but Heartfelt
Transhood, The Trans List, Disclosure, No Ordinary Man — the last decade is littered with documentaries on the present and recent past of transgender culture, and without exception these films feature at least one talking head decrying the salacious public and journalistic fixation on gender reassignment surgery, reminding viewers that…
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Steven Nguyen Scaife Jan 21, 2022. 8 minute read
Three Visits to Detention: the Game, the Movie, and the Netflix Series
(Note: Detention‘s Character names are translated differently into English across different adaptations. For clarity’s sake, I’ve used the original game’s spelling and shortened names throughout. For one Netflix-specific character, I’ve used the spelling given in the English subtitles.) Which video games get adapted to other mediums is seemingly random. It…
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Dylan Roth Jan 14, 2022. 7 minute read
‘Belle’ Review: Online Onscreen
This weekend sees the long-awaited US wide theatrical release of Belle, the latest animated feature from writer-director Mamoru Hosada, five-time winner of the Japan Academy Film Prize for Animation of the Year. The film was a tremendous hit at the Japanese box office last year, following a 14-minute standing ovation…
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Gretchen Felker-Martin Jan 7, 2022. 5 minute read
Gretchen Felker-Martin’s Top 10 Movies of 2021
10. The Green Knight David Lowery’s The Green Knight tells a thoroughly medieval story of masculine weakness and inadequacy first and foremost by hurling the aesthetics of the period out the nearest window. Solar crowns and fractal dresses, camera obscuras burning pinhole likenesses into sheets of lead, architecture equal parts…
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Dylan Roth Dec 30, 2021. 8 minute read
Star Trek: Discovery Season 4 Episode 7 “…But to Connect” Review
Star Trek: Discovery’s fourth season began with great promise, and after a few rough weeks it now feels like the show is back at full speed. “…But to Connect” is one of the strongest episodes of Discovery to date, conjoining a classic Trek “message” plot with some tense character drama…
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Steven Nguyen Scaife Dec 29, 2021. 7 minute read
‘Red Rocket’ Review: Donuts to Dollars
Like a lot of characters in director/co-writer Sean Baker’s ballooning Rolodex of marginalized Americana, Mikey Saber (Simon Rex) in Red Rocket is very much down and out. We first see him with bruises on his face, sleeping on the bus ride to his hometown of Texas City. NSYNC’s “Bye Bye Bye” plays…
READ MORE >Dylan Roth Dec 23, 2021. 7 minute read
Star Trek: Discovery Season 4 Episode 6 “Stormy Weather”
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Kenneth Shepard Dec 22, 2021. 1 minute read
You Can Now Watch the Doctor Strange Sequel Trailer Without Sitting Through Spider-Man’s Credits
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Dylan Roth Dec 21, 2021. 5 minute read
“Mother/Android” Review: The Apocalypse is a Real Downer
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Kenneth Shepard Dec 20, 2021. 4 minute read
On Canon, Closure, and Continuity in Spider-Man: No Way Home
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Steven Nguyen Scaife Dec 17, 2021. 5 minute read
The Most Underrated and Overlooked Movies of 2021
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