Interviews/Reviews

Within these pages we feature a carefully curated selection of online exclusives and featured interviews and reviews from emerging artists. We invite you to find a quiet corner, explore and enjoy!

Lord of Dark Places by Hal Bennett Review

Reviewed by Gavin Caterina || Trigger-warning: death, racial trauma, incest, sexualization, more || There is next to nothing on the Internet about Hal Bennett. His trace is scanter than the dining accouterments of termites. His

My Father’s Dragon (2022) Review

Reviewed by Charlotte Doyle || My Father’s Dragon is the latest from acclaimed Irish studio Cartoon Saloon, who rose to fame with the Oscar®-nominated Secret of Kells. Based on the 1948 children’s book by Ruth

A Morbid Sojourn: The Commodification of Trauma

Reviewed by Sohail Ahmed || On a Friday night bereft of any inclination to socialize, I did what any shut-in college student would do, I made dinner and resigned myself to a night on the

Don’t Worry Darling (2022)

Reviewed by Celeste Gibson || In an August interview with Variety magazine, Olivia Wilde states that her sophomore directorial project, Don’t Worry Darling, was focused on female pleasure. The director stated that this fact was

Werewolf by Night (2022)

Reviewed by Daniel Jimenez || Michael Giacchino’s Werewolf by Night is Marvel’s first special presentation and a refreshing new step for their cinematic universe. Released on October 7th of this year, Werewolf by Night is

Everything You Could Want in A Movie All at Once?

Reviewed by Hunter Reagan || Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s 2022 film Everything Everywhere All at Once (EEAO) has all of the parallel universe action of this spring’s Marvel movie, Doctor Strange, with an even

Andrew Joseph White’s “Hell Followed With Us”

Reviewed by Natalie Dean || disclaimer: This review is based on an ARC copy, so minor edits may have been made between the version being reviewed and the official print. Premise: Hell Followed With Us

Jennifer Saint’s “Elektra”

Reviewed by Natalie Dean || Plot Overview: Elektra follows the women surrounding the Trojan war: Clytemnestra, Helen, Cassandra, and the titular Elektra. Beginning when twins Clytemnestra and Helen are just children and following them into

Together by Duster

Reviewed by Gavin Caterina || When grunge hit mainstream radio in the early 90s like a beam of greased thunder, there was the agreed—albeit, not entirely accurate—consensus that the genre represented the half-awake rebelliousness, emitted

Violet Evergarden: The Movie (2021)

Reviewed by Patricia Ortiz || Intro The latest Violet Evergarden movie, released on Netflix in mid-October, concludes the series, which was originally released in 2018. The 2-hour long film brings a fin to the journey

Midnight Mass (2021)

Reviewed by Minahil Zaki || This review contains spoilers for the first 3 episodes of Midnight Mass (2021). In October 2021, writer and filmmaker Mike Flanagan (The Haunting of Hill House (2018) and The Haunting

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Reviewed by B. B. Garin || Magic, folklore and high-intensity sports may not seem like a natural combination, but in Mason Boyles’s debut novel, Bark On (Jan. 2023, Driftwood Press, $25.99) the three collide with

Returning to the Wild: “World of Wonders” by Aimee Nezhukumatahil

Reviewed by Reagan Prior ||  Author: Aimee NezhukumatahilTitle of Work: World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other AstonishmentsGenre: MemoirPublished: September 8th, 2020Publisher: Milkweed Editions When you read Aimee Nezhukumatahil’s prose, you can tell

The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) Review

Reviewed by Isabel Pitts || If one has never seen a Wes Anderson film, and is interested in his upcoming work, “Asteroid City,” I highly recommend taking a look at his filmography! After watching The

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