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“It’s A Great Life If You Don’t Weaken”: ‘The Friends of Eddie Coyle’ at 50

By Johnny Restall

American cinema of the 1970s has long been recognized for its downbeat, character-led crime dramas. From Alan J. Pakula’s Klute (1971) to Arthur Penn’s Night Moves (1975) and Ulu Grosbard’s Straight Time (1978)…

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We Are the Mutants: The Book!

If you haven’t heard, we wrote a book! And it’s out right now! Won’t you please buy it and be our best friend?

Film & TV

“Have a Good Time All the Time”: ‘This Is Spinal Tap’ and the Art of Longing

By Lisa Fernandes

1984’s This is Spinal Tap is all about the pining—epic pining, as high and fulsome as the band’s hair and the wailing notes they (try to) hit…

Art & Illustration

“One Nite Only”: When Frank Zappa Played at State U

By James Higgins

In the summer of 1970, the launch of the humor magazine National Lampoon was not going well…

Film & TV

Pop Culture Jam: The Mainstream Subversion of Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankel

By Andy Prisbylla

The subversive paradox created when Max Headroom turned pitchman for corporate cola is just one of many in the career of Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankel…

Authentic Music from Another Planet: The Howard Menger Story

By Stephen Canner

From the opening years of the 1950s, various terrestrials came forward claiming to be in contact with the occupants of flying saucers. Their stories were often quite similar…

March 8, 2022 in Occult & Paranormal.

No Bondage, No More: ‘Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché’

By Eve Tushnet

I first heard about the X-Ray Spex from a Riot Grrrl flier handed out at punk concerts in the mid-’90s. Their one album, Germfree Adolescents, was on a list of woman-led punk music…

February 28, 2022 in Music & Sound.

Shopping Mauled: Revisiting ‘The Mall: An Attempted Escape from Everyday Life’

By Ty Matejowsky

By now, dead shopping malls are as much a part of the popular imagination as they are blighted fixtures of suburban landscapes: sprawling vestiges of a bygone era when droves of consumers flocked to self-contained hubs of retail commerce…

February 9, 2022 in Books & Literature.

Doom, Détente, Dr Pepper: ‘Godzilla 1984’ and ‘Godzilla 1985’

By Alex Adams

Also known as The Return of Godzilla and simply Godzilla, Godzilla 1984 is what we would now call a reboot: part remake, part sequel, a fresh start that retrieved some things from Godzilla’s past while discarding others…

January 31, 2022 in Film & TV.

The Lonely, Horny Prophecies of Lynne Tillman’s ‘Weird Fucks’

By Sam Moore

What’s prescient about Weird Fucks is how everything both is and isn’t a matter of life and death; violence is an undercurrent, and every breakup may or may not be the end of the world…

November 18, 2021 in Books & Literature.

The Violence of Reason: ‘Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950 to 1985’

By Eve Tushnet

Dangerous Visions is the third in a series, edited by Andrew Nette and Iain McIntyre, exploring the radical elements in pulp and genre publishing of the Cold War era. (We Are the Mutants has reviewed the first volume, on postwar youth culture, and the second, on revolution and the 1960s counterculture.)

November 8, 2021 in Books & Literature.

The Golden Hydra: King Ghidorah, Astro-Colonizers, and Cold War Empire

By Alex Adams

In Toho’s 1965 tokusatsu spectacular Invasion of the Astro Monster, humanity makes contact with ruthless hive-mind aliens from Planet X, a new stellar body discovered on the far side of Jupiter…

October 6, 2021 in Film & TV.

Mind Eats Matter: Ed Hunt’s ‘The Brain’

By Mike Apichella

Outside of David Cronenberg’s work and stray oddities like 1980’s The Changeling, the Canadian horror and sci-fi movies of the 1970s and ‘80s often get overshadowed by their counterparts from the US and Europe…

September 23, 2021 in Film & TV.

Eternal Artifice: ‘Cuadecuc, Vampir,’ ‘Martin,’ and the Deconstructed Vampire

By Sam Moore

The cinematic vampire is a fragile thing, not only for its many vulnerabilities—sunlight, crosses, garlic—but for the ways in which it can be rendered hollow, a construction…

September 1, 2021 in Film & TV.

Rise of the Smog God: Ecological Apocalypse in ‘Godzilla vs. Hedorah’

By Alex Adams

Many of the fifteen Shōwa films are rich with social commentary and formal and stylistic innovations. Perhaps the boldest of them all—and perhaps the most unfairly maligned—is 1971’s psychedelic eco-horror Godzilla vs. Hedorah…

June 15, 2021 in Film & TV.

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