This is kind of a weird thing to say, since I've watched every Spider-Man movie made in the last sixteen years, but I don't consider myself a huge fan of the character. Oh, I like Spidey well enough—what is there not to like, after all;...
Author: Abigail Nussbaum
Tomorrow evening is the first night of Hanukkah, which in.
This thread has been getting some attention on twitter, so I thought I'd repost it here. It's something I've been thinking about a lot, as the conversation about "good" and.
Welcome back to A Political History of the Future, our series about how science fiction imagines the political and social organization of its future societies. This time, our topic is State Tectonics, the concluding volume of Malka Older's Centennal Cycle, which tries to imagine the...
I have a review at Strange Horizons in which I try to sum up my deeply conflicted reaction to Netflix's adaptation of Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House. Netflix’s.
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend—the CW musical dramedy about coming to terms with your mental health problems—has brought us many classic ditties, but perhaps none as LGM-friendly as this song about why you.
So, here's something you probably don't know about me: I love stories about solar system space exploration. I love fictionalizations of the mid-century space race like Apollo 13 and the miniseries From the Earth to the Moon. I love hokey disaster movies in space like...
Malka Older is an academic, a humanitarian worker, and a science fiction writer. We'll be talking about her work in the.
Welcome back to A Political History of the Future, our series about how science fiction constructs its social and political worlds. This time, our subject is Revenant Gun, the concluding.
Hey, remember Michael Ian Black, the comedian whose response to Louis CK's attempt to resurrect his career a mere ten months after being exposed as a gross sexual predator was to chastise us all for our lack of charity? Remember how he basically invented an...
There's a problem I occasionally encounter as a reviewer that I call the "it's really good" problem. It's when you want to recommend something that doesn't have an obvious hook.
I finally managed to see BlacKkKlansman, Spike Lee's latest film about the real police detective who, in the 70s, infiltrated the KKK. It's basically as good as all the positive.