"Oh son, do you know, do you know where you come from? From a lake with white and hungry seagulls. [...] That's how you came into the world. From so many places you come, from water and earth, from fire and snow, from so far away you walk, towards both of us, from the terrible love that has chained us, that we want to know how you are, what you tell us, because you know more about the world we gave you." - The Captain's Verses (1952), Pablo Neruda.
Why is 'The Green Knight' so white? People of color are so removed from the origins of 13th century art. We’re looking toward the future, and part of that should be updating aspects of our stories to mirror those evolutions.
Marvel’s animated show What If...? ended last week, so let’s go back and look at all of the different universes shown and rank each episode from worst to best!
Ripley is a great character because she serves two distinct, but rewarding, purposes in the original film and the sequel.
I came across Urchin by chance and decided to watch it because of the title. It made me think of the spiky animal that lives at the bottom of the ocean, and the old Dickensian novels, where an urchin was an orphaned, homeless child in shaggy and dirty clothes.
The plot could’ve really been interesting if the elements of lycanthropy was integrated with perhaps the struggle of identity of being LGBTQ+. It's an experience for so many that as they’re starting to realizing their true selves, they feel like a monster, especially if they come from unsupportive homes or communities. Instead, the horror and transformation elements seem thrown in without contemplation of how this could deepen the narrative.
I am an Armenian who has a mild form of epilepsy. I rarely see Armenian culture and epilepsy properly portrayed in film or TV. I delve into the how and why.
