After having sex for the first time, Sunny (Kuhoo Verma) realizes that she needs the morning-after pill.
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July 2021: The Art of Little Things
Continue reading “Letter to the Reader – July”What The Haunting of Hill House Gets Right About Mental Illness
The first time I watched The Haunting of Hill House (2018), I was entirely consumed by a desire to figure out what, exactly, had happened to the Crain family.
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May 2021: The Art of Taking a Walk
Continue reading “Letter to the Reader – May”Why Offred Is the “Final Girl” of The Handmaid’s Tale
In horror, the female body is the fulcrum upon which the greater plot pivots.
Continue reading “Why Offred Is the “Final Girl” of The Handmaid’s Tale “Lady Bird Is About Learning to Let Go of What Should Be
While watching Lady Bird (2017), I realized that the titular protagonist reminded me a lot of one of my favorite literary characters, Nao Yasutani.
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April 2021: The Art of Trying Not to Get Washed Away
Continue reading “Letter to the Reader – April”Lilo & Stitch Understands That Children Feel Grief, Too
I loved dark and weird things as a kid.
Continue reading “ Lilo & Stitch Understands That Children Feel Grief, Too”Yes, God, Yes Is a Bizarre Fever Dream for Those Of Us Who Went to Catholic School
In Karen Maine’s Yes, God, Yes (2019), the protagonist, Alice (Natalia Dyer), receives a searing indictment from her best friend: “I am sick of being best friends with a pervy psycho.”
Continue reading “ Yes, God, Yes Is a Bizarre Fever Dream for Those Of Us Who Went to Catholic School”A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night Made Me Wish I Could Walk Home Alone at Night
Directed by Ana Lily Amirpour, the 2014 film A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night first premiered at Sundance and was marketed as the “first Iranian vampire Western.”
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