Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Blondes Prefer Destruction
These two shots occur in the opening minutes of David Lynch’s 2001 masterpiece Mulholland Drive and Andrew Dominik’s 2022 adaptation of...
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Charles Atkins
- Nov 4
Some Reflections on OreGairu (My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU)
I’m new to anime. It was only at the start of this semester that I actually got into it, despite having wanted to for years before that....
Alex Johnson
- Sep 19
The Most Important Image of the '00s and How We Should Read It
Content Warning: Graphic Descriptions and Images of American Torture at Abu Ghraib 2004, Iraq. A post-9/11 world. A post-American Empire...
Clay Garfield
- Jul 13
How to Go Nowhere
"It is a tale. Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing."- Macbeth “No hugging, no learning.” Through its 9 year run...
Lucas Dunst
- Mar 17
Snow White and the Red Shoes: Visions of Retributive and Restorative Justice
There is a powerful connection to be drawn between Hans Christian Andersen’s story The Red Shoes, and the Grimm Brothers retelling of...
Teddy Masters
- Feb 15
The Situation Room
Up on the Situation room, GENERAL GEORGESON and GENERAL MADDISON are sitting around the conference table, looking at telemetry data....
Isaac Sage
- Sep 7, 2021
In Netflix's "Scissor Seven," Slacker Comedy meets Shōnen Action
Between American children's series still enjoyable for adults (She-Ra, The Dragon Prince,) and more hard-edged, adult-oriented imports...
Gray Knox
- May 24, 2021
The Leprous House
FOR AUTHORIZED EYES ONLY: CLASSIFIED TOP SECRET OPERATION LEPROUS HOUSE: Department of Defense, PARACOM Division YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO...
Bella Stevens
- Feb 19, 2021
Lucas Dunst
- Jan 21, 2021
The Loneliest Man in the Universe
A blue man stands “on a balcony of pink sand hardened to glass” (Moore 136). That balcony is part of an unimaginably enormous and...
Isaac Sage
- Dec 10, 2020
The Mandalorian's New Villain
The following article contains spoilers for Seasons 1 and 2 of The Mandalorian. When The Mandalorian released last year, it felt like a...
Lucas Dunst
- Nov 14, 2020
Just Look Up
Have you ever noticed that human beings are naturally wired to look just about everywhere but up? I don’t know if this is a feature...
Sam Hafetz
- Aug 30, 2020
Aphorisms for The Upper East Side Elite: A Review of Metropolitan
An aphorism is a pithy observation that contains a general truth( That definition is copy and pasted from Merriam Webster.). I’m sure...
Isaac Sage
- Aug 8, 2020
Review: In "She Dies Tomorrow", fear of death spreads like a plague
She Dies Tomorrow, written and directed by Amy Seimetz, begins as a kind of one-woman show. Amy (Kate Lyn Sheil,) alone in her new house,...
Grant Holt
- Aug 8, 2020
The Sinking of the Kokovoko
Loss of HMS Victory, Peter Monamy, 18th Century On the night of January sixth, the cargo ship Kokovoko left port under the steadfast...