by Dahlia Schweitzer | Oct 17, 2022 | Special Features
I was reading this morning about the backlash to one of Netflix’s latest projects, Luckiest Girl Alive, produced by and starring Mila Kunis. Despite the fact that the film contains graphic depictions of a school shooting and gang rape, there is no clear warning of...
by Dahlia Schweitzer | Aug 19, 2022 | Journal
Yesterday, my friend Dr. Lauren Donovan Ginsberg, tweeted that sometimes she wonders about “the vast, silent, unknown would-be networks of vulnerable students and scholars in academia who (a) have a harasser in common but who (b) don’t know that because harassers tend...
by Dahlia Schweitzer | Jan 12, 2022 | Journal
Inspired by the sudden influx of queer films, characters, and directors in 1992, film scholar and general badass B. Ruby Rich coined the term “New Queer Cinema.” From Paul Verhoeven’s Basic Instinct to Derek Jarman’s Edward II, from Tom...
by Dahlia Schweitzer | Dec 28, 2021 | Journal
Spoilers within. The greatest tragedy in Don’t Look Up isn’t the end of the world. It’s the tremendous waste of the star power within it. As Nick Allen writes, “If Don’t Look Up deserves any award, it’s for the work of its casting...
by Dahlia Schweitzer | Jun 15, 2021 | Events
Haunted Homes: Book LaunchDahlia Schweitzer, in conversation with bestselling author and journalist Jonathan Allen, will discuss her latest book, Haunted Homes this Friday, June 18th, at 7PM EST. The event will take place online via Zoom and free tickets can be...
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