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For Women Writers Week 2026 at RogerEbert.com, Alisha Mughal writes about Larry Fessenden’s Habit (USA, 1995). “Fessenden displays an immeasurable awareness of masculinity in his crafting of Sam, and a graceful sense of self in his carriage. Sam is so incredibly charming and fallible; he is smart and […]
Monét X Change has a case on Judge John Hodgman’s podcast! “Andy says he and his fiancé Monét X Change have an adorable meet-cute story. But Monét says that this meet-cute is meet-fake: it DIDN’T HAPPEN. Who’s right?” Listen here.
The BBC Archive has a clip of Tolkien talking about The Lord Of The Rings. “JRR Tolkien speaks to John Ezard about his extraordinarily popular Lord of the Rings series of fantasy novels. The author touches upon their genesis and themes, his fondness for invented languages – and […]
At The Means At Hand, Max Maxwell writes about the intersection of crime and magic (in weird and horror writing). “It’s not such a stretch to see criminal conspiracies as the kinds of dark power that beat at the heart of horror novels. Not simply the violation of […]
It’s a 1972 BBC Radio adaptation of Rudolf Besier’s “The Barretts of Wimpole Street” with Dorothy Tutin and Elizabeth Barrett and Jeremy Brett as Robert Browning! You can listen here.
Our friends at Cinema Shame hand out their annual Shamely Awards! “Join Allan, James, and Eric for the 5th Annual First Watch Shamely Awards. They pick their favorite Films, Actors, Screenplays and Physical Media releases from whatever the hell they watched in 2025. Along the way they’re joined […]
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