Queeries: Only You Can Cool My Desire
Check out our "Queeries" column! This time on Bruce Springsteen.
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Let’s Talk About It: “Materialists” and Celine Song’s Gentle Parenting
Check out the film review for "Materialists", featuring Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans, and Pedro Pascal
Queeries: It’s Only Life After All
Queer & Music? A new column on the fire combo. This time, we focus on the Indigo Girl.
Let’s Talk About “Sinners”: A Tragic Portrayal and Celebration of Freedom
A visually stunning and captivating feature film, “Sinners” has played in theaters for less than two weeks and has already become a record-breaking hit. In just 48 hours, “Sinners” earned over $45 million at the box office and became the first horror
Let’s Talk About “Adolescence” and Incel Culture
Released a little over a month ago, “Adolescence” has become the third most-streamed Netflix original series, falling behind “Squid Game” and “Stranger Things.” The British limited series, written and created by Stephen Graham and Jack Thorne, follows the arrest of 13-year-old Jamie
An Exploration of Heritage: Le Voyage de Talia (2022)
Le Voyage de Talia (2022) is a bilingual, 80 minute Belgian/Senegalese film in Wolof and French by director Christophe Rolin. The film was nominated for two awards at the African Movie Academy Awards. It follows nineteen-year-old Talia, an Afro-Belgian, on her first
Let’s Talk About “When Life Gives You Tangerines” (and the gaping hole in my chest)
“When Life Gives You Tangerines” is a bittersweet, endearing Korean drama that has the world under its spell. The story spans the lives of Oh Ae-sun (IU and Moon So-ri) and Yang Gwan-sik (Park Bo-gum and Park Hae-joon) on Jeju Island in
Jeremy Dutcher’s Echoed Reverberations
Jeremy Dutcher. A celebrated Canadian Indigenous musician known for masterfully blending Wolastoqiyik elements into his music. Set to perform a concert on March 21 at 8 p.m. “You want to go?” I asked my friend, who was doing math. “Sure thing,” she
Let’s Talk About “Anora:” A Modern Great Gatsby
“Anora,” written and directed by Sean Baker, is a five-time Oscar winner, taking Best Picture at the 97th Academy Awards. Mikey Madison, who plays the title character Anora, made history as one of the youngest to win Best Actress in a Leading
Let’s Talk About It: The Unbridled Passion and Darkness of “Nosferatu”
Robert Eggers’s deeply enriching “Nosferatu” (2024), a darker and more devastating retelling of Dracula in fierce longing and yearning. Eggers’s production adapts the 1922 silent horror film of the same name. The film follows a newly-wedded couple, Ellen and Thomas Hutter (Nicholas