Tori Hawks-Ladds, Author at Bright Wall/Dark Room

JoinedNovember 27, 2020

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Tori Hawks-Ladds studied film at Emerson College and was the media columnist for The Berkeley Beacon. They currently reside in Los Angeles where they enjoy making jello molds and walking their antisocial chihuahua, Bennie.

Robin Williams and Edward Norton in Death to Smoochy

Queer Nihilist Opera for The Last Days of Capitalism

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Issue 89: Farce

Death to Smoochy failed spectacularly when it was released, finding no purchase with viewers looking for an easy escape from the antebellum early aughts. But a film whose excesses lacked an audience in 2002 might just have found its spiritual home 18 years later.