“I got to get with these young directors who are Gen Z, and they’re going at it their own way, whether it’s through the YouTube culture or whatever it is,”…
Cast and crew members share personal anecdotes and technical challenges from the production of the 1986 historical mystery film, The Name of the Rose. Through reflections on the adaptation process…
What I liked about monsters was never that they taught me to love my body. If anything, that would have reproduced the same representational problem in a slightly more gothic…
Long before Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, director Lotte Reiniger created a breathtaking silhouette-animated fantasy inspired by One Thousand and One Nights. In this video, we explore the…
Ghostbusters - The Mayor Wants To See You Guys
I’m a little obsessed with Widow's Bay. It’s a horror-comedy series on Apple TV set on a fictional island off the coast of Massachusetts. The island isn’t as famous as…
More than forty years after 9 to 5 became a cultural phenomenon, Dolly Parton joins Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, and others to revisit the groundbreaking comedy and the real-world issues…
The Pop Culture Detective
1991, Richard Linklater
The legacy of Neil Jordan’s The Crying Game has become inextricably entangled with a defining trope of AIDS-era mainstream queer representation: the revelation that exposes the gender identity of a…