I’ve been bemoaning the state of disability in cinema for the last year. But just like Neil Armstrong took one small […]
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In 1991, Susan Faludi published her landmark text, Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women, which argued that the 1980s saw […]
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In 1957, European immigrant Frederick Kohner published the novel Gidget, The Little Girl with Big Ideas, about a girl who aspires […]
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It’s easy to criticize Hollywood decision-makers for how often they take the easy way out, whether it’s putting white Englishmen in […]
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When Clint Eastwood starred in the 1971 Don Siegel drama The Beguiled, it was in the hopes of pushing his image […]
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Fictional monsters have often been used to examine the “other” within ourselves. But the various incarnations of The Mummy — in […]
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In 1979 director Ridley Scott and screenwriter Dan O’Bannon gave audiences the scare of a lifetime with Alien and a feminist […]
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Maybe it’s the fashion or the facial hair, but Hollywood’s got it bad for the ‘70s right now. From the world […]
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Over the next several weeks countless college-age teens will descend upon exotic locales to enjoy spring break, that idyllic period of […]
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Jordan Peele’s horror-comedy Get Out is breaking new ground for its blunt, satirical take on the current state of race relations. […]
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Comics, like movies, are texts ripe for deconstruction. Animators and writers deliberately plot their stories for audience entertainment, while simultaneously commenting […]
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The success of M. Night Shyamalan’s mind-bending thriller Split has inspired the director to announce plans to make a sequel to […]
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