Who Cleans the Toilets on the Death Star?
Science fiction and fantasy films tend to be fairly unsubtle in their depiction of authoritarianism. Children of Men is the exception.
Company Men
The working stiffs and horrible bosses of Glen Cook’s Black Company saga by Sean T. Collins I worked for a wizard once. Alright, technically I worked for Wizard once: Wizard magazine, the old combination price guide, Entertainment Weekly, and FHM for fans of
Review: “Bad Things” Queers the Classics With Claustrophobic Gay Horror
Stewart Thorndike’s sophomore feature draws on horror classics for a slow-burn queer thriller by Jayne O'Dwyer “Where are all the female Travis Bickles and Jack Torrances?” asked writer-director Stewart Thorndike when her sophomore feature was acquired by Shudder this past spring. It’s
Barbie’s Capitalist Critique Will Make BlackRock Millions
Dress up. Have fun. But let's be realistic about what the film actually represents. by Lindsay Lee Wallace The hype for Greta Gerwig’s Barbie movie, starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, is truly heartening. It’s been years (read: at least a couple
The Great Salesman of Science
Oppenheimer is an intense, angry film that flies in the face of its director's apolitical reputation by Erin M. Brady SAG-AFTRA and the Writers Guild of America are currently on strike at time of publication. Blood Knife unequivocally supports the striking
REVIEW: Huesera: The Bone Woman
Director Michelle Garza Cervera's feature debut expertly mines horror from the pains of motherhood and the travails of gender expectations by Michael Zendejas There’s a lot that makes Huesera: The Bone Woman, Michelle Garza Cervera’s 2022 feature directorial debut, truly impressive. There's
An A.I. Utopia Is No Place For Humans
The A.I. future we’re being offered has little use for human labor—or human beings at all by Christopher Pearce Over the last year, an unlikely path to automated utopia has come into view. Built on an endless amount of stolen artistic labor,
The Fanatic: Creation, Destruction, & Belief – A Video Essay
A wide-ranging analysis of the scifi films Noah (2014) and Prometheus (2012) by Josh McNamee Camus said that there was only one properly serious question in philosophy, and that is suicide. But the question of whether we should embrace annihilation is inherently