Spartacus
Cory Booker
What is the greatest historical movie of all time?
What makes a great historical movie? An accurate portrayal of a period, a nostalgic look back at the past, or simply a ripping yarn? Well, on our website HistoryExtra.com, we've…
Decolonize the Novel: Writing Against Western Strictures of Realism
In 2022 my debut novel, Border Less, was published in North America (7.13 Books) and South Asia (HarperCollins India), two spaces of diasporic life and aesthetic legacies that my fiction…
The Spell 1977
The Spell is a 1977 American made-for-television horror film which premiered on NBC as "The Big Event" Movie of the Week. It is directed by Lee Philips and stars Lee…
Secrets of the Planet of the Apes, with Josh Friedman
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Godzilla As an ‘Undiscerning God’
Japan was at “zero,” and the arrival of Godzilla sets it back to “minus one,” hence the title.
All the Violet Tiaras – Jean Menzies
For a period in time that gave us Sappho, and the love affair of Achilles and Patroclus, the Ancient Greek relationship with queer folk is a lot more complicated than…
Class of ‘84: Rise of The Villains
This year marks the 40th anniversary of a lot of landmarks in pop culture, especially sci-fi and fantasy. So many franchises were born in 1984. Some came to define the…
Klombadrov loves you
I never chose to have gleep
Ghost World (2001) w/ Lucé Tomlin-Brenner
“I just hate all these extroverted, obnoxious, pseudo-bohemian losers."