Storming the Ivory Tower

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"[T]he movie is structured to be moving towards these multiple climaxes, to put it in the parlance of the female orgasm."

Nightbitch, a film about a frustrated housewife who starts turning into a were-dog, actually resonated a lot with me as a trans woman... until it defanged itself and got weirdly domesticated.

If elevated horror films are so desperate to give us "deep" metaphor about drug use, why do all their drugs suck?

The protagonists of anime My Dress Up Darling occupy a kinder world, more free to explore their identities and passions.

Timekeepers of Eternity rips and tears the material of classic Stephen King serial the Langoliers to shreds.

Zenshu, one of the standout animes of last season, positions itself as a love letter to animation.

Most modern criticism agrees, audiences have a lot of interpretive say.

There Is No Antimemetics Division reminded me why I keep coming back to speculative fiction.

Jordan Peele's Twilight Zone reboot is a bizarre time capsule of issues liberals said they cared about in 2019.

Hey, you see the recent output from Jon McNaughton, painter of all values traditional and all aesthetics that uphold the Western Tradition?

Isn't it weird how many stories lately feature villains trying to tap into alternate or simulated realities to reunite with loved ones?

Our culture is saturated with superhero stories, but as those stories turn towards action adventure narratives it's up to a detective story and an epic vampire horror serial to ask "just what is a hero?"

The Auteur as a figure in entertainment is dead.

Happy Friday 13th!

The seasonal countdown of horror movies continues, with werewolves as romantic metaphor, the horror of adolescence, and a bunch of films whose place on this list is real unstable.

Over the last few years, I've watched close to 100 horror movies.

A single joke tweet dropped pharma giant Eli Lilly's stock value by $15,000,000,000.

Prometheus was supposed to be Ridley Scott's triumphant return to making films about Aliens.

The anime Dance Dance Danseur dwells on the angst of conforming to standards of performance--of art, and of gender.

As generations age out of our youth valorizing culture, but find no purchase in our political gerontocracy, what form does the art of those too old to rock and roll and too young to die take?

AI art is here.

As AI advances, the hype machine advances faster.

Throw out the science fictions about intelligent robots.

AI art programs are taking the internet by storm.