Hot Enough for June (1964)

Shudder makes an incredibly atmospheric docuseries about the darker side of Hollywood mysteries.

True crime media is notoriously obsessed with the “missing white woman” trope, and yet the vast majority of American murder victims are male, and well over half are people of color.

Outer Banks (2020-) knows its audience: young adults in a country that can’t stop romanticizing good ole’ treasure hunts. Add a little of Riverdale’s (2017-) sex appeal, and no one can look away. Forty years after The Goonies (1985) America’s consciousness hasn’t strayed from the same tropes: treasure hunts, a vulnerable white male lead, and the whitewashing of a racially segregated setting.

Spirited inverts the tropes of the holiday musical genre to update an age-old tale for 2022. It's a paean to those who make grand spectacles possible.

This Japanese Anime movie is about Kanna, a young girl who sets on a quest across Japan to discover her true identity.

An analysis on how the Garfield movie fails to represent the characters it is adapting, especially the women, by removing their best characteristics.