Holiday Movie Preview
As of this writing, there is one major Hollywood blockbuster scheduled to come out in theaters before the end of the year. It is...
Happiest Season: Straight Faces
Gay people have many movies to call their own but not a Christmas movie. When you consider that Lifetime, Hallmark, and Netflix put out...
Alone Star
As I’ve mentioned before, the Lone Star Film Festival went entirely online this past week, so I had the new experience of taking in...
Lone Star Film Festival Preview
The coronavirus pandemic has resulted in just about every film festival either being canceled (Telluride) or moving online (Cannes). This year’s edition of the...
Entering Bly Manor
In 2018’s The Haunting of Hill House, director Mike Flanagan (Oculus, Doctor Sleep) used the Shirley Jackson novel of the same name as a...
Come Play: With a Friend Like Larry
It’s logical that horror movies would introduce disabled characters into the genre. Who’s even more vulnerable than that iconic final girl in the slasher...
Chyna to Fort Worth
“When I was a little girl, I used to write scripts and either perform them with my dolls or with my sister and friends...
From Pop Culture to Cop Culture
Growing up as a Black kid in Kansas City, TV writer Aaron Rahsaan Thomas had a love-hate relationship with cop TV shows. As fun...
Dark: Déjà Vu All Over Again
Netflix is pushing Dark pretty hard since airing the third and planned final season of the acclaimed German science-fiction show. If you’ve heard anything about...
Song of Fire
It is almost impossible knowing where to start when talking about Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga. Perhaps it’s best to first...
