There is no possible scenario where I can write anything about I Saw the TV Glow without the piece transitioning into something horrifically personal. It’s an odd, though not totally unwelcome, quality that this film seems to evoke by nature. I’ve joked a few times this is a film created in a lab for me specifically, although I’m more than willing to admit that its specific release period coinciding with some big personal changes endeared me to the film from the start. However, considering how s...

I cannot think of a film with a bigger “collective fever dream” energy than the absolute mess that was the 2019 movie musical extravaganza Cats. Tom Hooper’s second attempt to bring the spectacle and majesty of live musical theatre to film–the follow-up to his Oscar-winning Les Miserables–was a disaster, plain and simple. Five years have passed, and this movie has been torn to shreds a thousand times. And yet, there is still so much more this film can be ridiculed for in its aftermath.I have a v...

What is the point of creating art? What is there to do when something you love so much doesn’t love you back? It’s an ever-pressing question, especially now when art is progressively devalued and commodified between generative AI, garbage working conditions for animators, and the churn-and-burn pacing of the anime and manga industries. And yet, despite it all, humans continue to create art because it’s an innately human thing to do. Even in times of tragedy or isolation, people still want to con...