Download PDF version Y nació el asesino en serie considers an essential question: can US history be studied through the lens of its monsters? The serial killer is one of the most infamous monsters, featuring prominently in countless horror movies...
Download PDF version It has been reported that after the worldwide success of Netflix’s miniseries The Queen’s Gambit, created by Scott Frank and Allan Scott in 2020 and based on a homonymous novel written by Walter Stone Tevis, there has...
Download PDF version I’ve never wrote before about the Fifty Shades of Grey hodgepodge as it seems redundant. I’ve mocked it since the first book came out, because it is mock-worthy and the “fifty shades of” collocation lends itself to...
Download PDF version Just as this post was initially meant to be a short review of the film itself, Paul Schrader’s Cat People (1982) was initially meant to be a remake of a well-known 40s film with the same title....
The Umbrella Academy is a tv series based on the eponymous comic by Gerard Way (who some of the readers may know as the front man of the band My Chemical Romance) and Gabriel Bà. In 2019, the first season...
Download PDF version 57 years ago, on August 28, 1963, in the very same place where the Emancipation Proclamation was signed by Abraham Lincoln a century before, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his historical public speech known as “I Have...
In the past couple of years, Netflix has been periodically releasing documentary one-shots and series on Latinx—and in particular Mexican—migrants. Among many interesting productions, on September 15, 2019 the platform launched Los Tigres del Norte at Folsom Prison, a documentary...
On October 30th of 1975, Bob Dylan inaugurated a 2 year tour along the United States and Canada: the Rolling Thunder Revue. Mostly performed at small enclosures, the eccentric project that included some of the most innovative names of American...
Download PDF version Dare Me, the recently released Netflix original series, is a little, dark compound of reinvented symbols and stereotypes of the American popular culture.The show is based on the eponymous thriller novel by Megan Abbott (2004), dealing with...
Uncut Gems—the fourth feature film directed by brothers Josh and Benny Safdie—is an exhausting tale of gambling, jewels and loan sharks, and gives the audience very few opportunities to catch their breath during its runtime of over two hours, which...
