Personally, my favourite part of Boaz Yakin’s 2003 film Uptown Girls is that Billy Joel never plays. I’m joking, really. This film was tremendously important to...
The late 90s-early 2000s were, in many ways, a golden age of television for young women. After an oversaturated market of male power fantasies in the form of su...
I was five years old when Star Wars first came barreling into my life. The year was 1999, and everywhere you went, there were ads and products for Star Wars Epi...
Towards the end of 2001’s The Princess Diaries, Mia Thermopolis (Anne Hathaway) reads a letter from her late father. He explains — knowing he’s going to die, th...
Good artists copy, great artists steal, and Edgar Wright satirizes… well he used to, anyway. He became one of this century’s most prolific directors by skewerin...
The police procedural will forever be a safe genre for television. No matter what show you look at, lawyers and the police will always be the heroes enforcing m...
Detectives. The Upside Down. Eggos. For folks who enjoy Netflix originals or have an itch for sci-fi, any talk of Eggos these days will make them think of sci-f...
I recently polled some established film and culture writers about what they feel they would have benefitted from while starting out in their careers. A few expr...
As a narrative device across genres, pregnancy is either depicted as a joyful progression in one’s life, or a roadblock that interferes with a) one’s plans for ...
Ghost World’s opening credits are scored by a 1965 Indian rock and roll song, “Jaan Pehechan Ho”. It's an electric song I showed to my friends in high school, t...
