REVIEW: Halloween Kills Is Melting
Although far from perfect, Halloween Kills is the film that finally delivers on the promise of the 1978 original's iconic ending. by val Loughcrewe The Shape is a God. John Carpenter and Deborah Hill knew this without realizing it when, at the end
REVIEW: Dune (2021)
Denis Villeneuve succeeds in bringing Frank Herbert's sci-fi epic back to the screen, but at the cost of some of its strangeness. by Kurt Schiller In one sense, I have seen Dune twice. In another, I have seen it dozens of times. I
The Original Cyborg: Asian Women & The Machinations Of Power
Even alongside literal cyborgs, Asian women have been used as artistic shorthand for dehumanization and objectification by Kelly Pau In Alex Garland’s 2014 film Ex Machina, a computer programmer named Caleb Smith is tasked by CEO Nathan Bateman to evaluate whether
Why Women Watch Horror
Horror media has become a vital and transgressive artistic inflection point for women by Lindsay Lee Wallace // Illustrations by Lauren Sophie Gletty The theater is dark, and vibrant with the film’s staccato soundtrack and an accompaniment of whispers and shushes.
I Gave You My Soul (and I Am Dead): Gender & Faustian Fiction
A lesson in gender norms, compliments of the Devil by Matilda Lewis The motif of the Faustian pact with the Devil is an old and colorful one, remixed and reinterpreted time and again. Always, it invites the audience to consider: What
REVIEW: Fear Street Reveals the Poverty of Pastiche
Leigh Janiak's Fear Street sets out to revive the teen slasher, but seems content to play around with its corpse by Kurt Schiller Fear Street—the new three-part horror series from Netflix and director Leigh Janiak—begins with a promising burst of neon, blood,
Who Steals the Goose?
Untitled Goose Game may not be "leftist," but its structure recalls the fight against enclosure by Louis Evans It’s a lovely morning in the village and you are a horrible goose. – Untitled Goose Game tagline Is Untitled Goose Game, the video game
Archive and the Commodification of Death
The 2020 sci-fi film Archive explores the intersection of wealth, technology, and grief by Konstantina Buhalis Do you ever think about your death? Your biological decay is inevitable, but what are your plans? Cremation? A traditional casket burial? Maybe a Tibetan Sky Burial
The Smol Bean Emperor
Science fiction and fantasy films tend to be fairly unsubtle in their depiction of authoritarianism. Children of Men is the exception.
Ostensible Projected Forms
How an Obscure Short Story by David Foster Wallace Almost Predicted Our Imminent Deepfakes Hellscape by Owen Morawitz Throughout much of its history as a form of genre storytelling, science fiction has consistently explored the tensions and contours that exist between the