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 […]
This year for Switcheroo Month I thought I would doubly switch things up by writing about something reputable–the films of Alfred Hitchcock–and something I would not usually write about–the films of Alfred Hitchock. Hitchcock is a filmmaker I struggle with. I recognize the quality of his work. I […]
At Mubi Notebook, Leonardo Goi discusses the lists of best films of 2023! “Maybe that’s how we ought to treat film lists in the end: as a way to snorkel, however imperfectly, into the medium and the industry at large. For all its existential crises, cinema looked a […]
Polygon‘s Patrick Gill reveals the truth in a video essay. “Everything is wrestling. Over the last 25 years, video games have borrowed wrestling moves and archetypes with reckless abandon, regardless of whether or not the game has anything to do with wrestling. Here’s the story of how the […]
Ruth Franklin writes about Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, childbirth, Queerness and new novels that address them all. “Perhaps this is why the “Frankenstein” story continues to haunt us. If, as parents, we are Victor Frankenstein, then as children we are all his creature. Or, perhaps better, the creature is […]
At The New Yorker, Inkoo Kang writes about turbulence in Hollywood. “To survey the film and television industry today is to witness multiple existential crises. Many of them point to a larger trend: of Hollywood divesting from its own future, making dodgy decisions in the short term that […]
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