It all started with the Racer Trash collective, a group of decentralized film editors, who had a stated aim to “attack and dethrone cinema.” Working remotely as COVID was just starting to worm its way through us, this self-described ‘freeform collective’ gathered in virtual spaces to plan their […]
“The first two uses of any technology are sex and war.” Unknown I’m not sure where to properly attribute that quote, but when it’s spoken in the ethereal narration of rock legend and Blondie frontwoman Debbie Harry in Amanda Kramer’s new documentary, So Unreal, it has a certain […]
Generational trauma knows no particular race, ethnicity, or personal experience but there is a unique and uniquely bitter flavour when it sets itself on Black lives. In communities where violence can be routine but the lasting effects and the voids it creates are anything but, trauma is often […]
A match between the late Bray Wyatt and John Cena called a “Firefly Funhouse Match” showed that WWE could do something truly subversive.
As so many people did over the last month, I set out for my local multiplex to engage in a practice called Barbenheiming. If you’ve been insulated from any sort of news or media this summer (in which case I envy you, friends), this means pairing up a […]
Even among the wild personalities on offer in professional wrestling, Japan’s Maki Itoh is, in all ways, an aberration.