Month: March 2023

Lulu Wilson tapped into a primal ferocity for her turn as the enraged teen taking down violent home intruders in 2020’s Becky. Its follow-up, The Wrath of Becky, reveals that the time passed between films hasn’t diminished the teen’s volatile rage in the slightest. Armed with John Wick-like motivation, Becky plunges into a new vengeful quest that provokes more
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In Trish Doller’s Off the Map, two lost souls find each other during a road trip across Ireland.  Carla Black is a bit of a rolling stone, traveling the world in her old Jeep Wrangler. She’s careful not to stay in one place too long, form attachments or put down roots. Her next adventure is
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March 31 is International Transgender Day of Visibility (TDOV). When I think of this holiday, the word “celebration” comes to mind. Often, life as a transgender person is reduced by media depictions to overcoming challenges and suffering. And while trans and non-binary people do face significant challenges and discrimination, TDOV is to me a reminder
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News Lewis Largent, MTV VJ on 120 Minutes, Dies at 58 The late alt-rock aficionado was also the music director at Los Angeles radio station KROQ By Nina Corcoran March 11, 2023 Facebook Twitter Facebook Twitter Lewis Largent, the influential MTV VJ who hosted 120 Minutes and former music director of Los Angeles radio station
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Dr. Alexa Hagerty, an associate fellow at the University of Cambridge and an anthropologist with a Ph.D. from Stanford, can read bones. In Still Life With Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains, Hagerty explores the close connection between bones and words. Like words, bones can be articulated (arranged into a coherent form, such as a
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In the high school library that I manage, I run a manga club that is very popular with the students. In the past eight years I’ve seen it grow and evolve with the students. Manga is by far the most popular kind of book we have in the library, especially with those who claim they
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Some guys have all the luck. Especially if they are a no-good, very-bad person, like Joe Goldberg. After becoming a full-blown serial killer in the Netflix drama You, it seemed like the season four finale was primed to serve up the Internet’s problematic fave’s demise, with Joe (Penn Badgley) jumping off a bridge in order
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Welcome to the Ghostface Glossary, a guide to every horror reference and nod throughout the first five films of the Scream franchise. After a lot of pausing, rewinding, and zooming in, as well as researching, we’re catching all of the many horror-specific references Williamson, Craven, and Co. included in this beloved postmodern slasher franchise. If we’ve forgotten any
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