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The Incredible Queerness of Peggy and Steve in Marvel’s What If…?
David Lynch’s Dune Kept Science Fiction Cinema Strange
I Sold My Soul to Arcade Satan for the YA Horror Novel Game Over
Droning and Dread: How Hereditary Gets Under Your Skin
A Love Letter to the Joyfully Bizarre Mashup of “Bohemian Rhapsody” and Naruto
The Wheel of Time, Trailers, and the Ineffable Hope for the Future
The Construction of Language in Riddley Walker
A Muppet Family Christmas Is the Greatest Holiday Gift of All
The Best Moment in All of Star Trek Is About the Trash We Don’t Appreciate
Hello There: On Selina Kyle’s Apartment in Batman Returns
“Will I Ever See You Again?” How Pete & Pete Predicted the Future
The Subversive Hotness of Shrek 2
Finding the Future Where You Least Expect It: L.A. Law’s “The Plane Mutiny”
Sad Bangers/Sad Bats: On the Music of Matt Reeves’ The Batman
The Stunning Artistry of BTS’s “Black Swan”
Optimism, Identity, and the Fourth Doctor’s Scarf
Who Belongs in Doggy Heaven? The Religious Subversion of Our Flag Means Death
Satanic Panic in The X-Files’ “Die Hand Die Verletzt”
When Invisible Wrestlers Revealed the Art of Wrestling
Why “Partners in Crime” Is the Perfect Episode of Doctor Who
How Marvel’s No-Prize Helped Shape Modern Fandom
On the Cultural Importance of Poltergeist’s “Meat Scene”
The Joy that Kills, The Joy that Saves: Our Flag Means Death’s Mary Bonnet is Her Own Masterpiece
Video Games and the Promise of Cake
The Joyful Silliness of Nativity 2: Danger in the Manger
Joking With Therapy Chatbots
The Shared Terrors of H.P. Lovecraft and Christopher Pike
Centers of Attention in the Very Modern Murder Mysteries of Rian Johnson
Pushing Daisies: Death, Life, and The Pie Hole
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