On Patreon

Why you should welcome our Oankali overlords.

Online interactions are real interactions.
 
Utilitarians Everywhere

At Slate I wrote about how Dunkirk points the way to better anti-war movies, even though it isn’t anti-war itself.

At Playboy I wrote about George Romero and smaller than life horror.

At Quartz I said we need to SMASH ALL EASTER EGGS!

At Splice Today I wrote about

—why battle metaphors are a bad way to talk about cancer.

—Three Kings and American savior fantasies.

—Music that isn’t planning to change the world from Dustin Wong & Takako Minekawa, My Purest Heart for You, and Red Pill.
 

 
News

My new ebook on women film directors is out! Buy one today!
 
On Patreon

Rewriting the Wonder Woman movie.

Why the Great British Bake Off is better than Legion.
 
Utilitarians Everywhere

At the Forward I wrote a long piece about Scarlett Johansson and Jewish assimilation (or the lack therof.)

At Bandcamp I wrote about the Mexican chiptune scene.

At the Verge I wrote about racial erasure in the Handmaid’s Tale, book and show.

At Splice Today I wrote about

—how Adam West is the sexiest Batamn.

—Defiance and how fascism shapes Jewish identity.

—why The Shack is better than American Gods.

On Patreon

The original Mummy and sexy exotic Boris Karloff.

On iZombie as a metaphor for acting.

 
Utilitarians Everywhere
 

At Playboy I wrote about how cannabis helps veterans and how the federal government doesn’t want them to have it.

In my first piece for the Verge, I wrote about the one serious omission from the Wonder Woman film: space kangaroos.

At the Forward I explained that yes, Gal Gadot is white.

At Quartz I wrote about Bresha Meadows and a criminal justice system that gouges the poor.

At Splice Today I wrote about:

—Robert Christgau and white critics in blackface.

—nostalgia and great new releases by Jason Eady, Coup Savage, and the Family Band.

—Haneke’s White Ribbon and somebody else’s collective guilt.

—trying to get my vehicle emissions tested and getting the government you pay for.

 
On Patreon

A prayer for Beni from the 1999 Mummy.
 
Utilitarians Everywhere

At Quartz I wrote about Justin Bieber as feminist revolution.

At Splice Today I wrote about:

—new metal releases from Master Book Record, Oranssi Pazuzu, and Amentia.

—300 and how anti-imperialism can be fascist.