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30 years in, The Silence Of The Lambs’ Jame Gumb still deserves better

March 29, 2021

Just like a booger-coated finger a centimeter from your face, The Silence Of The Lambs is impossible to ignore. Similar examples of trans exploitation—films  as guilty of poor taste as…

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American Movies Funded by The Us Military

March 26, 2021

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A New Leaf (1971)

March 21, 2021

women aren't funny, they're hilarious

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The Manic Pixie Dream Girl Still Feeds on Insecurity

March 21, 2021

The manic pixie dream girl trope simply puts down girls who don’t fit the blueprint. Manic pixie dream girls — or rather, the men who write them — feed off…

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Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny

March 8, 2021

Today’s stars are action figures, not action heroes. Those perfect bodies exist only for the purpose of inflicting violence upon others.

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‘The Dig’ – Hiding Sutton Hoo’s women

February 9, 2021

My immediate impression after watching the film was to question why the three female leads were presented as a vulnerable, passive, with a dull ongoing focus on their fictional problems,…

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I Will Never Watch “Children of Men” the Same Way Again

January 21, 2021

How my feelings about this dystopian film changed after living through a dystopian time

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The rise of Indigenous horror: How a fiction genre is confronting a monstrous reality

April 3, 2020

Indigenous writers, on the other hand, acknowledge the mundane horror of living in a country that dehumanizes you, weaving the reality of Indigenous life with fiction to scare audiences. In…

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The Myth of Rugged Individualism

December 9, 2019

The idea of the “rugged individual” is all over the place in science fiction–especially in the United States. Who is this loner hero, and why are there so many stories…

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Jordan Peele Challenges Golden Globes Classifying ‘Get Out’ As a Comedy: ‘What Are You Laughing At?’

November 16, 2017

The director had no input in submitting the film to the HFPA in the comedy category and explained why he felt no genre could do it justice.

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