Author: Natalie Bauer
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Farewell to David Lynch, A True North in an Unruly Universe
An ode to the inimitable director who died doing what he loved (ripping cigs) during the first lunar standstill of 2025—compelling testimony that he is, undeniably, connected to the moon.
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A Gal ‘Gunslinger’? Oh My Stars and Garters…
A harbinger of Le Borg’s The Dalton Girls, Roger Corman’s Gunslinger clouds the commonly rigid gendered rules of westerns.
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Why ‘White Water Summer’ Got Lost in the Woods
Huddled between coming-of-age melodrama, vacation fun, and back-country suspense, it’s not difficult to identify why Jeff Bleckner’s 1987 adventure film White Water Summer struggled to find its core audience.
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‘But I’m A Cheerleader’ Puts the Camp in Conversion Camp
Jamie Babbit’s 1999 comedy works to preserve its goofy tenor amidst bleak themes.
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Camp, Punk, and Goth-Rock Galore in ‘Repo! The Genetic Opera’
Despite a wild storyline and all-star lineup, Repo! has not one trace of sarcasm, self-consciousness, or so much as the smallest amount of external context.
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BMX Stunts and Budding Romance? That’s So ‘Rad’
The culmination of ‘80s cinema is, of course, the BMX dance routine in the 1986 coming-of-age sports movie Rad.
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Home Is Where the Monsters Are: The Strange Sanctuary of ‘Little Monsters’ and ‘Nightbreed’
Both films, introduced within the horror universe in 1989 and 1990, illustrate the benefits of discovering asylum in a realm occupied by monsters.