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Issue 26: Summer

July 2015

Letter from the Editor

Chad Perman·
Issue 26: Summer
This month, we're casting our net over the wide expanse of summer, in all its various cinematic shades.
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Juggling Wolves

Kelsey Ford·
Issue 26: Summer
Rear Window is a movie about the stories we choose to tell.
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The Worst Things The Camp Counselors In Wet Hot American Summer Did Juxtaposed With The Worst Things That Happened To Me At Camp…Ranked

Fran Hoepfner·
Issue 26: Summer
It's a movie about the thing camp does best: taking American teenagers out of their normal environment and placing them into an environment where they want to kiss all the time.
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The Blonde in the Kitchen

Sabina Stent·
Issue 26: Summer
This is the clincher: all the men in The Seven Year Itch come across as, to put it bluntly, desperate.
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How a Stray Dog Becomes Rabid

Kevin Harris·
Issue 26: Summer
A narrator first introduces us to this reality, but his words are superfluous — the hot spell’s influence is visible in every frame of Stray Dog.
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Wake Up!

Jacqueline Ristola·
Issue 26: Summer
Do The Right Thing is viscerally human, and few walk away from it unshaken.
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I Carried a Watermelon

Amanda McCleod·
Issue 26: Summer
Dirty Dancing is one of those films that will make me scream “WHAT?!” in your face if you dare to tell me you haven’t seen it yet.
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The Dizzying Heat of Summer Nostalgia

John Douglass·
Issue 26: Summer
The Sandlot is baked in the dizzy heat of summer vacation nostalgia.
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You’re The One That I Want

Gillian Singletary·
Issue 26: Summer
Adventureland, I realize now, is definitely about James.
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The Rich Stuff

Anna Sjogren·
Issue 26: Summer
On watching The Goonies in Astoria, Oregon on the 30th anniversary of its release.
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Moon Tower

Arielle Greenberg·
Issue 26: Summer
Our Resident Poet, on Dazed and Confused
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