BY BEDATRI D. CHOUDHURY Thirteen is a strange number; some consider it unlucky, some don’t really care, and some (like Neil Young) insist on it being, indeed, lucky. It’s also a curious age in a person’s life: one’s first year as a teenager—caught in that in-betweenness...
LGBTQ+ filmmakers are taking back a genre that owes them everything. BY HANSEN BURSIC Let’s face it: horror is a queer genre. While it’s important to note the genre hosts some of the most problematic depictions of queer and trans people in film, true horror fans are...
BY GABE CASTRO Horror is a genre that has had a duplicitous relationship with most marginalized groups, including womxn. As the home of the blonde victim trope, a character that could never pass the sexy lamp test, let alone the Bechdel test and the Final Girl...
BY JOE GEORGE I was an unusually fearful child. It only took the trailer for Friday the 13th Part VI to keep me awake and staring through the window all night for signs of Jason Vorhees. A glance at the VHS cover for Ghoulies was enough...
BY ALEX SMITH SERIES INTRO: For these strange times, Alex Smith for cinéSPEAK presents a recurring series of articles and interviews that will take a look at the electric Philadelphia sci-fi, fantasy and speculative futures community! This series will showcase the region’s fantastic arts through a...
BY KRISTAL SOTOMAYOR The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) is the largest publicly attended film festival in the world, and one of the most internationally recognized festivals. With the spread of the pandemic, film festivals globally have shifted to virtual screenings and socially-distanced, in-person screenings. The...
BY PAURY FLOWERS If you were dropped on Earth and had to form an opinion after watching the top 10 Stoner movies from Rolling Stone (movies like Cheech and Chong, Pineapple Express and Big Lebowski), you would likely notice patterns of maleness, Whiteness, sloth, and comedic...
BY KRISTAL SOTOMAYOR “Utopia means both good place and no place,” meditates Academy Award nominated filmmaker Hubert Sauper in his latest feature documentary Epicentro. The film was awarded the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. Throughout Epicentro, the Austrian director...
BY HANSEN BURSIC If you have been paying attention to LGBTQ news media in the past three months, then you might have noticed LGBTQ “coming out” headlines have been having a moment. First High School Musical director Kenny Ortega “confirmed” Sharpay's brother Ryan is gay, then...
BY ROSA PARRA of LATINX LENS EDITOR'S NOTE: THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS —WE HIGHLY RECOMMEND YOU ENJOY THIS FILM PRIOR TO READING In an era where many of us are asking for diversity, inclusivity, and different stories, it’s a breath of fresh air to watch “Song...