When I studied abroad at La Universidad de Sevilla in Spain, I took an art history course. As the class was in a foreign language and many, many years ago, I can only remember the most general of lessons. Zeus and his lightning bolt; Ares and his he…
At one point in MaXXXIne (Ti West’s movie about a porn star seeking crossover fame), a director (played by Elizabeth Debicki) tells the eponymous main character she booked the part in her big, splashy movie because of what she had said after h…
I came out and began to call myself a writer in the same year. The year was—wait, that’s not right. I began an MFA program and wrote my way out of the—no! Sorry, not right either. Let’s try again. Just once more. In 2019, I…
The clock on the giant video screen had hit zero. Pink and orange parachutes appeared. My sister and I started screaming as a woman emerged and began to sing about a cruel summer. I would have screamed for the next 3.5 hours of the Taylor Swift conc…
In grad school, I took a Writing Horror, Fantasy, and Supernatural course where my professor stated there was a difference between a horror film and a ghost story. Both contain scares and incite dread, but the former ends without relief, plunging yo…
Welcome to Queer Cinema Catchup, a podcast where we talk about queer-related themes in film and TV. Who’s we, you ask? Joe Murphy and Allison Theveny, movie-lovers who have a long history together. That history began in the 90s and almost end…