Stuff my Kids Watch
Kindness is a survival skill in this heartwarming film.
Celebrating the Living
Famous for playing the lovable Aunt Bee; in reality something of a recluse who didn't get along with her coworkers.
Attention Must Be Paid
Famous for playing the lovable Aunt Bee; in reality something of a recluse who didn't get along with her coworkers.
My thoughts on how sex scene discourse seems to bring the worst out of people
Intrusive Thoughts
Thinking back on the unnecessary spate of '90s movie versions of classic TV shows and wondering who let it happen again.
English Teacher is a straightforward sitcom that ends up capturing what it's like to be in your thirties and finding out how much there still is to learn.
Celebrating the Living
From Anne Frank's sister to Dr. House's mother, Diane Baker has had quite the career!
Attention Must Be Paid
Andy Taylor or MAAAAAAATLOOOOOOOCK? You be the judge!
Disney Byways
Every November, a look at the state of the Disney+ service and what you're still missing.
Streaming Shuffle
This is both effective horror and shameless fear-mongering.
My thoughts on how sex scene discourse seems to bring the worst out of people
Intrusive Thoughts
Thinking back on the unnecessary spate of '90s movie versions of classic TV shows and wondering who let it happen again.
Celebrating the Living
From Anne Frank's sister to Dr. House's mother, Diane Baker has had quite the career!
Streaming Shuffle
This is both effective horror and shameless fear-mongering.
Intrusive Thoughts
The movies, especially Westerns, are the way the are due to the efforts of a single man who worked in Tombstone, Dodge City, and Hollywood.
Analysis of The Wicker Man from a modern perspective. Contains a comparison with Castlevania, so beware of spoilers for both
Celebrating the Living
Famous for playing the lovable Aunt Bee; in reality something of a recluse who didn't get along with her coworkers.
Attention Must Be Paid
Famous for playing the lovable Aunt Bee; in reality something of a recluse who didn't get along with her coworkers.
English Teacher is a straightforward sitcom that ends up capturing what it's like to be in your thirties and finding out how much there still is to learn.
Attention Must Be Paid
Andy Taylor or MAAAAAAATLOOOOOOOCK? You be the judge!
Disney Byways
Every November, a look at the state of the Disney+ service and what you're still missing.
Intrusive Thoughts
Charlie Brown is one of many fictional children living in a world where the parents don't help.
Disney Byways
Futurism and weather control, Walt Disney style, with animation by Ward Kimball
Usually age is a liability for rock bands, but on Los Campesinos! recently released seventh album, All Hell, “the U.K.’s first and only emo band” unequivocally proves that their well-earned longevity is an asset. The band describes All Hell as an album on “drinking for fun and drinking for misery // adult acne // adult […]
Year of the Month
The band's first greatest-hits collection, covering the period before their initial breakup, is full of diverse, witty, mature power-pop gems
Year of the Month
The 1994 Carpenters tribute album is a worthy set of cover versions as well as a fascinating cross-section of alternative rock of the time
Year of the Month
Isaac Brock and company's third album is their most existential and transcendent
Year of the Month
Eminem's best album features him at the peak of not only his rapping skills but his sense of play
Year of the Month
While not as popular or acclaimed as some of their peers, Buzzcocks' work is just as vital, and this hits collection is the best representation of it
Year of the Month
Talking Heads' third album is where the band's synthesis of influences bloomed into something new, unique, and artist-defining
Year of the Month
One of the most heralded albums of the 1990s holds up both musically and in its anxiety about our digital future
Examining how relationships work in The Dragon Age Saga prior to Veilguard.
How the multiple endings of Spec Ops: The Line ask the player to judge their protagonist.
Year of the Month
Amy Dunne knows that it's literally impossible to be a woman, too.
Year of the Month
“The Myth of Sisyphus” and Absurdism didn't happen in a vacuum.
Year of the Month
The limits of knowledge, and of cynicism.
Le Guin swerved from the expected in her second Earthsea book.
Year of the Month
The third book in Rice's romantic, blood-soaked Vampire Chronicles dramatically upped the stakes and scope.
Intersectional Femivision
When and how we ask kids to grow up
Intersectional Femivision
A look at Bechdel Tests and Gail Carriger's Parasol Protectorate Series