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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…

November 7, 2022 in 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…

June 22, 2022 in Film & TV.

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 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.

Fractal Accidents: Attachment and Agency in Chris Shaw’s ‘Split’

By Jonathan Lukens

Watching Split left me with the distinct feeling that I just missed five minutes of it without leaving my seat…

June 3, 2021 in Film & TV.

Marrying the Monster: Apocalyptic and Utopian Impulses in 1950s Sci-Fi Cinema

By Pepe Tesoro

If you are even mildly interested in science fiction criticism, chances are that you have bumped into Susan Sontag’s 1965 essay “The Imagination of Disaster.” Written at the tail end of the long 1950s golden era of sci-fi film, the text is a bold and keen examination of a genre…

May 26, 2021 in Film & TV.

Fire Islanders: The Myth-Making Geography of ‘Boys in the Sand’

By Sam Moore

One of the first, most potent images in Wakefield Poole’s groundbreaking 1971 adult film Boys in the Sand is that of Casey Donovan emerging from the waves before making his way onto the beach. The image feels like a queering of a common cultural touchstone…

April 28, 2021 in Film & TV.

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