Talking Madonna with Erik and Abdi: Episode 7 – ‘RAY OF LIGHT’ (1998)
We’ve reached the halfway mark, the 7th of Madonna’s 14 studio albums and a turning point in her career and her personal life, Ray of... Read More
Reviews
TV Rucap: RuPaul’s Secret Celebrity Drag Race: Episode 2 – “Twerks of my Tears”
Welcome to this week’s recap of the now world famous “RuPaul’s Secret Celebrity Drag Race!” In the premiere last week, our contestants were less celebrities... Read More
TV Rucap: RuPaul’s Drag Race S12 E10 – “Send in the Clones”
Jackie Cox is the latest queen to have survived a Lip Sync (her first), and when the queens return to the Werk Room to Widow... Read More
TV Recap: Top Chef All-Stars LA Episode 7 “Pitch Perfect”
Welcome to another recap of “Top Chef: All-Stars L.A.!” We’re without our fashion queen Nini, but Karen has worked some magic in Last Chance Kitchen... Read More
Film Review: Adèle Haenel and Jean Dujardin in ‘Deerskin’
It begins with the kernel of an idea. Like literally let us say for our argument’s sake an actual kernel. A popcorn kernel. What if,... Read More
Talking Madonna with Erik and Abdi: Episode 6 – ‘BEDTIME STORIES’ (1994)
After the deep disco of Erotica and the intense blowback of its overt sexuality (and that book), Madonna gets into her groove on with her... Read More
Film Review: ‘Pray Away’ cements itself as a definitive documentary on conversion therapy
Films about conversion therapy and its survivors have been popular in recent years: 2018 brought both Desiree Akhavan’s The Miseducation of Cameron Post, where a... Read More
TV Review: ‘I Know This Much Is True’ is a standout ballet of duality
I Know This Much Is True tells the story of the Birdsey twins Dominick and Thomas and how the latter’s diagnosis of Paranoid Schizophrenia had... Read More
Talking Madonna with Erik and Abdi: Episode 5 – ‘EROTICA’ (1992)
Bad Girl, drunk by six… Welcome to episode 5 of Talking Madonna with Erik and Abdi where we get tied up and tied down with... Read More
TV Recap: One Day at a Time – S4 E6 “Supermoon”
I didn’t think that this week’s episode of One Day at a Time would tug on my heartstrings when I saw that it was about... Read More
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