The Scariest Horror Movie of the Year: Don’t Worry Darling
Warning: SPOILERS. I just watched Don’t Worry Darling, Olivia Wilde’s recent film, and much to my surprise, I loved it. …
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Why Tár’s Queerness Might Be the Most Disappointing Thing About the Film
When I google reviews of Tár, the first one that comes up proclaims, in all caps, “TAR is a MASTERPIECE.” …
When the Classroom Becomes a Minefield
Yesterday, my friend Dr. Lauren Donovan Ginsberg, tweeted that sometimes she wonders about “the vast, silent, unknown would-be networks of …
Do the Writers of ‘The L Word’ Know Actual Lesbians?
Inspired by the sudden influx of queer films, characters, and directors in 1992, film scholar and general badass B. Ruby …
Why There Is Nothing Funny About Don’t Look Up
Spoilers within. The greatest tragedy in Don’t Look Up isn’t the end of the world. It’s the tremendous waste of …
Construction Workers Are Not Disposable
In case you haven’t been paying attention to the news these last few weeks, things are pretty fucked up. Not …
From AIDS to Corona, Silence=Death
In his book The Return of the Real: The Avant-Garde at the End of the Century, American art critic Hal …
If fear is their lifeblood, why didn’t Trump and the Republican Party embrace the Coronavirus?
Do you remember the migrant caravans? How can you not, right? You barely escaped with your life! In 2018 and …
If Only Elizabeth Warren Would Sit Down and Shut Up — Then She Would Be Perfect!
Telemachus is a figure in Greek mythology, the son of Odysseus and Penelope, and a central character in Homer’s Odyssey. The first four books of the Odyssey focus on …
When Dave Chappelle tried to make a room full of people laugh at me, it backfired, and they laughed at him. But I’m not laughing.
Yesterday, I had lunch with a good friend at a restaurant in New York that shares a bathroom with the …
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