Deep Dive

Deep Dive

Revisiting Hadestown in a Week of Nuclear Fears and Mamdani's Win

Who knew a musical about Hell was just what I needed?

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'Once Bitten': How an '80s Sex Comedy Reinvented the Vampire

Jim Carrey and Lauren Hutton tired to inject some fun into a genre dominated by AIDS in the '80s

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Scream 2 and Hollywood True Crime

The first Stab movie showed us the continuing divide between the real and the fabricated in true crime.

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Monstrous Mothers: Witch Womb is Which?

Mothers in genre fare tend to fall into the same traps, time and again.

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TRON's Legacy of Music: Then and Now

Did Tron Ares deserve the soundtrack it has?

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Another Article on Taylor Swift's Life of a Showgirl

You've probably read several, but here's one more!

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'One Battle After Another': The World of Politics and Pynchon

Is One Battle After Another sensationalizing violence?

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Robert Redford's Quest for Truth and Learning Lessons From All the President's Men

It was Redford's 1976 feature that made all of us care about the truth.

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Wuthering Heights and the Emerald Fennell Hate Train

The first trailer for Emerald Fennell's "Wuthering Heights" got people big mad. But about what?

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IT and the Horrors of Childhood

Or why I identify with Eddie Kaspbrak so much

Popcorn Disability

Christopher Reeve and 1998's 'Rear Window'

Didn't know there was a 'Rear Window' remake starring Christopher Reeve after he was disabled? There's a reason for that.

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'Deadpool & Wolverine' and the Cringe of 2000s Nostalgia

Did we really have the time of our life, though?