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Dear Ryan Murphy, We Get It (opens the original)
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Oh, Ryan Murphy. I thought I would not write about Netflix’s Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story—if one can even call it that. I wrote a piece last year on the Ed Gein season, and reading it back now, I was exceedingly kind in my criticism. “Ryan Murphy is notorious for starting every series strong, and going downhill after that. I believe that networks give him more episodes than he can fill, he’s more interested in sensationalism than accuracy, and the shows exude camp. He’s not a documentarian.”
“Little Death” is Coming for You in Jane Schoenburn’s Camp Miasma (opens the original)
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Jane Schoenbrun is the incomparable director and creator of We’re All Going to the World’s Fair, I Saw the TV Glow, and now this beautiful love letter to ’80s slashers and sexual self-discovery: Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma. <source type="ima
Spider-Man: Brand New Day Kind of Forgot Peter Parker (opens the original)
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I Saw Spider-Man: Brand New DayOne weekend after web-swinging into theaters, Spider-Man: Brand New Day makes a compelling case that sometimes the best way forward is to look backward. I saw this film… Read more
The Odyssey: In a Time of Apparent Magic (opens the original)
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I am writing this review just after arriving home from seeing Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, a massive, old-school Hollywood epic, filled with gods, monsters, battles, magic, and mythological conse… Read more
Growing Up in the Backrooms: The First Internet-Native Filmmakers (opens the original)
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Liminal spaces make far more sense when you grow up online. As a Millennial (or Gen-Y), my generation got to experience a pre-internet childhood, later pioneering internet culture during a time when … Read more
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