While Stranger Things has always depicted the frustration of dealing with the baggage left behind by a previous generation, the fourth season is particularly exceptional in how it explores collective trauma.
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Ursula Muñoz-Schaefer is a journalist, media critic and MFA candidate at Boston University. She speaks English, Spanish and German and has previously written for news outlets in Canada and across the United States. For further reading, subscribe to her newsletter, Reading From Top To Bottom, where she muses about Taylor Swift and Pedro Almodóvar (among other things).
Though it doesn’t get the recognition it deserves, Pedro Almodóvar's Dark Habits remains a jewel in its singular filmmaker’s body of work.
Could Grease actually be a whole lot smarter than we give it credit for? Long story short: yes. Allow me to make the case for the 1978 movie not as a dodgy product of its time, but as a countercultural artifact we could still learn a thing or two from.
Pedro Almodóvar’s Law of Desire repurposes the classic melodrama to tell a series of suppressed narratives with the visual and sentimental poetry they merit.
On the spectatorship of Psycho and Santa Sangre, and queer people’s relationship to horror.
