At the Guardian, Stuart Jeffries writes about Brannon Carty’s documentary An Unlikely Fandom: The Impact of Thomas the Tank Engine (USA, 2025) and the fans who love the show. “It celebrates the men (and the fans Carty interviews are overwhelmingly male) who have found friendship, community and creativity […]
Kaylyn Saucedo / MarzGurl launches a documentary on Youtube. “Perhaps the closest thing you’ll ever get to a documentary on the subject of Vic Mignogna, his sexual harassment allegations, his lawsuit, and the culture war that sprung up around him. A history of a subculture within millennial-aged anime […]
Google locked romance writer K. Renee out of her works in progress. “All 10 of her works in progress—some 222,000 words across multiple files and folders—were frozen. Not just frozen, but inaccessible on her phone and tablet. When her husband fetched her laptop, Renee logged into Docs and […]
Lauren Collins considers the curious case of Stéphane Bourgoin. “Stéphane Bourgoin became famous through his jailhouse interviews with murderers. Then an anonymous collective of true-crime fans began investigating his own story.” Read more here.
Quick question for y’all: is “my brain has been hijacked by this fictional story and I no longer know how to live in the real world” a valid reason to call in sick to work? I’ve always gotten immersed in stories in a way that blurred the lines […]
The legendary filmmaker Albert Pyun is ailing and his wife is sharing comments with him from fans on what his work has meant to them. You can share your message here. (Via JoBlo.com)
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