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Prowling for You: On Watching Sex Scenes as a Woman

Jeva Lange·
Issue 49: Sex
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There are very few sex scenes made for skin-hungry female eyes. Such a thing is not supposed to exist. We are not supposed to exist.
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In Defense of Sentimental Schlock: A Taxonomy of Made-for-Television Holiday Films

Elisabeth Geier·
Issue 42: Holidays
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Add a little eggnog to that rum. Settle in to your corner of the couch. Turn on the flatscreen. Refer to this guide to made-for-television holiday films.
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The Varieties of Religious Experience

Matt Brennan·
Issue 40: Faith
This is the work of The Leftovers, The Americans, and Rectify, three TV series that treat the total reaction, and not simply the doctrine.
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You Know What You’re Doing

Miranda Dubner·
Issue 37: Steven Spielberg
A look at the Indiana Jones films through the eyes of Marion Ravenwood
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The Two Christians

Soraya Roberts·
Issue 37: Steven Spielberg
Christian Slater is binary. He is both a one and a zero. There is him, then there is the him inside him.
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Now Playing!

Fran Hoepfner·
New Releases
What's Fran watching these days?
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Does My Mother Dream of Electric Sheep?

Alex Dabertin·
Issue 35: Sci-Fi
I have begun to suspect that boys who grew up with mothers like mine—or responsible grown men who have made their way through a world inhabited by mothers like mine—have started making movies reflective of that experience.
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Either it’s Raining, or I’m Dreaming

Kelsey Ford·
Issue 31: Reflections on 2015
That old Joan Didion aphorism—“We tell ourselves stories in order to live”—has never felt more real to me than it did this year.
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Stranger In A Very Slightly Strange Land

Charles Bramesco·
Festivals
Charles Bramesco attends TIFF.
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The Golden Age of Grapefruit

Eloise Ross·
Issue 29: Lenses
A grapefruit is never dull; on the contrary, it’s often the center of attention.
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“This Isn’t like Any Other Profession Out There”: A found poem

Arielle Greenberg·
Issue 29: Lenses
"Don’t mind the cameras till you to talk to them."
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Seeing Ghosts

Alissa Wilkinson·
Issue 27: Paris
The ghosts of film past are everywhere in Paris, I imagine, and I want to hunt them down.
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