Our second installment of “The Space Between” is with Sam Ford, longtime soap fan and scholar specializing in digital strategy, transmedia, and fan culture. Sam…
by Vivian Obarski I have to start this essay out with a confession: Writing about Tarantino’s Django Unchained has been one of the more difficult…
by Deanna McMillan Unlike the whitewashed subject of domestic violence in my previous TLF piece, child abuse has been hunky dory with Hollywood since its…
by Sophia Madana Those of you who grew up a first-generation kid like me can sympathize with the fact that we were always kind of…
Who do I have to pull a Gyp-Rosetti-style beating on to get a HBO show about the Harlem Renaissance? I’ve been thinking about that lately…
Last Sunday evening, I was settled on my couch, resigned to the fact that I was going to be watching YouTube videos of Dillinger Escape…
by Deanna McMillan Shown at Chicago’s Portage Theater in 35mm last month, Luis Bunuel’s El (1953) remains one of his most difficult to find films….
by Deanna McMillan Even when we feel as though the entire universe is accessible through our computers, there still exist some films that must be…
by Vivian Obarski I remarked on Twitter once that the fandom war between BBC’s Sherlock and CBS’ Elementary is starting to make the Biggie/Tupac feud…
For some reason, heavy metal – the music, the musicians, the fan culture – has inspired a lot of great documentary films. One day I…