“Top Ten Most Sexually Prolific Lesbians and Bisexuals of Old Hollywood”
Autostraddle has not only a top ten list of Hollywood Lesbians and Bisexuals, but a flow chart of relationships and you can see it here.
The Little Detective That Did: Detective Byomkesh Bakshy!
I’ve had a cruddy day, so please indulge me in a visit to my favorite micro-genre of mainstream Indian cinema: people looking for things in Calcutta.I love a mystery. I love characters on a quest for knowledge that is ultimately used for resolution or even justice. I am […]
Every Frame A Painting: Ozu in Color
Every Frame A Painting is back as Tony Zhou and Taylor Ramos look at Ozu in color for TCM! “The cinema of Japanese filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu is explored in this new exclusive TCM Original. The creators Tony Zhou and Taylor Ramos are the duo behind the celebrated YouTube […]
Superman and Captain America at the Smithsonian!
The Smithsonian has a bit on Action Comics #1 and Captain America #1 and their recent acquisition of both: “Taken together, the comics reflect societal anxieties and aspirations alike—whether in Superman’s immigrant origins or in Captain America’s wartime ethos. ‘The pivotal creators of these comics—Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster, Joe […]
Inadmissable: “A Break in the Acknowledged Order”
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 […]
From the Archives: (Some of) The Women Who Wrote Hitchcock
Hitchcock gets a lot of credit for his mystery and suspense films, rightfully so, but sometimes that credit goes as far as erasing the writers who came up with the mysteries, twists, dark jokes, thrills and stories Hitchcock built his films on. Hitchcock himself gave credit where it was due. He put writers’ names on screen for everyone to see. But if film history has taught us anything, it’s that credits, dedications and acknowledgments are not enough to keep women both trans and cis, genderqueer and nonbinary people from disappearing from memory and history.
The Cultural Gutter 