By Yanis Iqbal Spoilers Alert! In the 2023 film Jawan, actor Shah Rukh Khan takes on the dual roles of… Read more “Jawan”: Reimagining Masculinity in Indian Cinema
By Yanis Iqbal Spoilers Alert! In the 2023 film Jawan, actor Shah Rukh Khan takes on the dual roles of… Read more “Jawan”: Reimagining Masculinity in Indian Cinema
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By Eli Nova Rose As I write, it’s dark before dawn very early on a Saturday morning, and one kid… Read more Between ‘Mothers’ and ‘Females’
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By Michael Truscello Like many Albertans, I was thrilled when HBO announced it would be filming The Last of Us TV adaptation in Alberta… Read more HBO’s The Last of Us: Filming (in) Alberta
By Payton McCarty-Simas While Oedipus Rex is the most obvious reference point for Toshio Matsumoto’s 1969 film Funeral Parade of Roses,… Read more “The Blade and the Executioner”: Funeral Parade of Roses, Psycho, and Queering the Monstrous Other
By Johanna Isaacson The following is excerpted from Stepford Daughters: Weapons for Feminists in Contemporary Horror (Common Notions Press). You can purchase… Read more Precarious Performances: Unplannable Lives of Emotional Laborers in Parasite
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By Madeline Lane-McKinley “Don’t misunderstand me, I have no hope,” Marc Maron tells his audience at the outset of his… Read more Maron’s Third Act