April is our annual Switcheroo Month, so Comics Editor Carol is leaving comics behind and writing about the South Korean television drama, Vampire Prosecutor. “Vampire Prosecutor? Is the vampire a prosecutor or do they prosecute vampires? Or both?” you ask. “Yes,” I answer. “Does Vampire Prosecutor take a […]
At Strange Horizons, Erin Horáková writes about popular culture, popular memory, popular forgetting, popular reworking, “receptive drag,” and “Kirk Drift”: “Why can’t we see what’s in front of us? Why can’t we read? Why do we remember green women, molested, when there weren’t any, and the wrong ‘three […]
“On this special episode of The Projection Booth, we’re giving you a choice: either put on the podcast, or start eating a trash can. Yes, we’re talking about John Carpenter’s They Live (1988) wherein a man with no name — or a name that means nothing — Nada […]
This week’s Guest Star is Nick Hanover. He’ll be covering for SF/F Editor Keith Allison, who took one last big job despite our pleas. Keith will be back next month. ~~~ “I’m not grieving. I’m gestating.” – Prevenge Patriarchal western society has long had a hypocritical view of […]
At Film School Rejects, Catherine Stratton’s video essay “Fandor presents: Lady Lands” discusses films like Catwomen of the Moon, Fire Maidens of Outer Space and The Queen of Outer Space, in which there are planets of space ladies who seem in charge but are really waiting for earth […]
At Prowler Needs A Jump, Kerry Fristoe writes about grief in four contemporary horror films, The Babadook, The Invitation, Prevenge, and The Void. “People in films kill for a boatload of reasons. They kill for money, love, sex, power, a black bird, a tanker full of gasoline, a […]
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