Pixar’s latest feature film, Onward (2020), is a creative, funny, and entertaining addition to their long list of successes. Originally theatrically released in early March, the film was sent straight to digital on March 20 and released on Disney+ on April 3 since theaters nationwide have been closed due to […]
Spoiler Warning: Napoleon Dynamite’s Faded Jeans and Faded Dreams
Photo: Jon Heder, right, and Efren Ramirez appear in a scene from the 2004 movie “Napoleon Dynamite.” by Alice McIntyre Napoleon Dynamite (2004) is one of my favorite movies. The film, directed by Jared Hess and starring Jon Heder, is the dictionary definition of the American high school comedy. Our […]
Shit Life Syndrome: Mental Health and Capitalist Decay
Photo: “Northern State Hospital” by Flickr user Cindy Shebley is licensed under CC BY 2.0 by Alice McIntyre I spent a week in a mental hospital. Most people should do the same. I say this without condescension and with only the slightest tinge of hyperbole. My time in inpatient mental care gave me valuable tools for emotional processing that everyone, even neurotypicals, can benefit […]
White Emptiness: White People Experience a Distinct Sense of Emptiness Due to the Choices of Our Ancestors
by Luca Fiora Dalton “If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.” This quote is often credited to the Aboriginal activist and visual artist Lilla Watson. It is more accurately […]
Deltron 3030: How Colonialism, Racism, and Capitalism Make the Album Still Relevant in 2020
by Links Edwards Deltron 3030 is the self-titled album from the supergroup composed of Del The Funky Homosapien and Dan the Automator. It’s an Afrofuturist rap opera that follows the adventures of the titular Deltron Zero, who starts the story as an alienated mech soldier in an apartheid hypercapitalist Earth. From here, […]
Birds of Prey: Review by Miette Deschenes
Photo: Birds of Prey logo created by Wikimedia Commons author FLC001. This photo is licensed under the public domain BIRDS OF PREY is an explosion of candy-colored violence. Like its full name, Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) is over-the-top, zany, and endless fun. Directed by […]
Spoiler Warning: Alien, Authoritarianism, and Fear of the Unknown
By Alice McIntyre Ridley Scott’s sci-fi horror classic Alien (1979) is widely regarded as one of the best films of all time, and deservedly so. It tells the story of the commercial starship Nostromo and its crew, who intercept a distress signal during their return to earth and subsequently deal with an […]
Spoiler Warning: How Uncut Gems Wins
Photo: Adam-Sandler by CONNOR VICK is licensed under CC BY 2.0 By Alice McIntyre Uncut Gems (2019) is a two-hour-and-fifteen-minute-long heart attack. And I love it. It seems highly unnatural to say that about a film starring Adam Sandler. Stranger still is the fact that Uncut Gems, in marked contrast to Sandler’s myriad rom-com roles of days past, is a […]
Albums of the Year
By Jacob Anderson-Kester 2019 marks the end of the decade. Music has been through a lot in the 2010s: a marked decline in the popularity of rock music, the rise of trap music and a proliferation of its sonic qualities, and the absolute dominance of music streaming platforms. Music continues to diversify […]