Cast: Ana de Armas (Marta), Daniel Craig (Detective Benoit Blanc), Chris Evans (Hugh Robinson), Jamie Lee Curtis (Linda Robinson), Toni Collette (Joni), Christopher Plummer (Harlan Thrombrey), Don Johnson (Morris Bristow), …
Movie Review: A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019)
Cast: Tom Hanks (Fred Rogers), Matthew Rhys (Lloyd Vogel), Chris Cooper (Jerry Vogel), Susan Kelechi Watson (Andrea Vogel), Enrico Colantoni (Bill Isler), Maryann Plunkett (Joanne Rogers), Tammy Blanchard (Lorraine) Director: …
Movie Review: Honey Boy (2019)
Cast: Shia LaBeouf (James Lort), Lucas Hedges (Otis Lort, 22 years old), Noah Jupe (Otis Lort, 12 years old), Byron Bowers (Percy), Laura San Giacomo (Dr. Moreno), FKA twigs (Shy …
Movie Review: Ford v Ferrari (2019)
Cast: Matt Damon (Caroll Shelby), Christian Bale (Ken Miles), Jon Bernthal (Lee Iacocca), Tracy Letts (Henry Ford II), Caitriona Balfe (Mollie Miles), Noah Jupe (Peter Miles), Josh Lucas (Leo Beebe), …
Movie Review: Doctor Sleep (2019)
Cast: Ewan McGregor (Danny Torrance), Kyliegh Curran (Abra Stone), Rebecca Ferguson (Rose the Hat), Zahn McClarnon (Crow Daddy), Bruce Greenwood (Dr. John), Carel Struycken (Grampa Flick), Emily Alyn Lind (Snakebite Andi), Jacob Tremblay (Bradley Trevor) Director: …
Blackness, Breath, and (Non)Being: Scenes of Illegibility
This project turns away from a positivistic discourse of black enfranchisement in order to attend to expressions of blackness as a condition of ontological death — that is, as an …
“Marking the manners of the times:” A Creative Simulation of Metagames in Frances Burney’s Evelina
This simulation gamifies some of the thematic elements in Frances Burney’s Evelina, such as female delicacy and satire, women’s vulnerability to violence in the public sphere, and 18th century British …
Failing at Gaming: Queer Gameplay in Mountain and The Longest Couch
How are video games queer? This question is central to recent game studies scholarship that attempts to bridge the rigor of queer theory with the playful possibilities of digital games. …
Queer Failure in Mattie Brice’s Mainichi
Queerness in digital games can mean a few different things. In one sense, a queer game may challenge the dichotomies that traditionally structure digital games: narrative and gameplay, player control …
Glitched Out Fiction Part II: Hacking the Colonial Script in E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India
In the first part of this series, “Glitched-Out Fiction Part I: Hermaphroditic Hackers in Alan of Lille’s The Plaint of Nature, I drew on Jack Halberstam’s theorization of “queer failure” …