We Accept Her: 90 Years of Freaks
Though it ought to be a snapshot of a bygone era, Tod Browning's classic film still feels like a reflection by Kathryn Finch In 2008, Richard Butchins’ documentary The Last American Freakshow was summarily rejected from the London Disability Film Festival. Butchins’
AI Writing Proves The Author Is Very Much Alive
ChatGPT may strive to mimic humans, but its lack of humanity is the reason we’re interested at all by Connor Wroe Southard We’ve all been talking to the machines. Just now, I asked ChatGPT—the generative language model created by the startup OpenAI—“What
Beyond the Bloodbath: The Abyssal Depths of Xtro
There's more than just blood and guts at the core of this nauseating cult horror classic by Cian Tsang Roger Ebert called Xtro “an ugly, mean-spirited and despairing thriller” in his scathing review of Harry Bromley Davenport’s goopy sci-fi horror film,
Rough Edges
When art, music, and games are repackaged and sold as polished products, the beautiful messiness of the human experience is lost by Gwen C. Katz A part of getting older that I didn’t anticipate is watching ad-hoc games be repackaged and sold
In the Light of the Wisps
SHORT FICTION by Marisca Pichette Heliconia lives in the willow boughs. Her face sways between the leaves, green in the summertime and golden in the fall. She is falling now, her willow switch dress snapping against air. When she hits the ground