Colman Domingo’s casting in Wicked: For Good highlights an often overlooked aspect of the film’s queerness: the character of the Cowardly Lion. In performance, dialogue, and storyline, the Cowardly Lion…
The parasite motif in Weapons is admittedly on the nose, but when you consider how groomers and rightwing influencers alike require a rapt audience of sycophantic followers, Gladys draining the…
Tina Romero is doing zombie cinema her own way: letting drag queens, Katy O’Brian with a crossbow, and Margaret Cho with a blowtorch bash zombie brains.
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