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TIFF 2023 REVIEW: Close To You Questions Why We Should Accept Bigotry Just Because It Comes From FamilySam (Elliot Page) is returning home for the first time since transitioning in Close To You. His hopes and fears for his family reunion are both...
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TIFF 2023 REVIEW: Woman of the Hour is a Chilling and Uncomfortable True Crime StorySet in the 1970s, Woman of the Hour recounts the real story of how aspiring actress Cheryl Bradshaw (Anna Kendrick) and serial killer Rodney Alcala...
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TIFF 2023 REVIEW: The Premise of Mother, Couch Goes NowhereIn Mother, Couch, a woman sits down on a couch and refuses to get up. Why this couch? Why this store? Why won’t she get up? It’s up to her three...
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TIFF 2023 REVIEW: The Boy and the Heron Explores Grief and DisplacementA grieving boy finds himself on a wild adventure to save his stepmother in Hayao Miyazaki’s latest Studio Ghibli film, The Boy and the Heron. There...
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TIFF 2023 REVIEW: The Critic Tries to Do Too Much, and Focusses on NothingIn The Critic, Jimmy Erskine (Ian McKellen) is a cranky theatre critic whose career is at stake. Then he hits upon a brilliant but horrifying plan...
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TIFF 2023 REVIEW: Boil Alert Promises to Protect Indigenous WatersOn a mission to travel the ‘Red Road’ and reconnect with her Mohawk heritage through the power of water, activist Layla Staats investigates the...
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TIFF 2023 REVIEW: Seagrass Explores Racial Dynamics at a Couples’ RetreatIn Seagrass, Judith (Ally Maki) and her husband Steve (Luke Roberts) try and save their marriage at an unconventional couples’ therapy retreat, but...
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Previously on Comics: Catch WWAC on a Podcast and Award Show UpdatesHi everyone! It’s another quiet one this week but clicking through the links should give you lots of excellent things to listen to, look at,...
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ESSAY: Dead at 55: Day of the Dead (1985)Continuing a series that celebrates the fifty-fifth anniversary of Night of the Living Dead with a look at the classic zombie film and its many...
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ESSAY: The Evolution of Oracle and Disability RepresentationBarbara Gordon is a woman of many names, faces, and identities. Batgirl, Oracle, crime fighter, hacker, able-bodied, wheelchair user, and most...
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Con Diaries: Solidarity with the Writer’s Strike at Fan Expo Canada 2023I made my annual trek to Fan Expo Canada 2023, braving the heat and rain to be amongst fellow geeky people. But this was a different kind of...
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Timothy Zahn and Martha Wells Among Winners of 2023’s Rejigged Dragon AwardsThe Atlanta convention Dragon Con handed out its eighth set of Dragon Awards on Sunday. Voted for by the public via an online poll, the awards have...
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INTERVIEW: Sabir Pirzada on Ms. Marvel, Mutants, and MoreFresh off the publication of Ms. Marvel: The New Mutant #1, I got the chance to talk to the comic’s co-writer Sabir Pirzada, about working...
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EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW: Sabrina The Teenage Witch Annual Spectacular #1Keep scrolling to read an exclusive preview from Sabrina the Teenage Witch Annual Spectacular #1, as well as an exclusive reveal from the Archie...
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WWACommendations: Boys Weekend, River’s Edge, Bezkamp and MoreAugust was a month of ambitious reads, and one of those funny times when we all seem to have melded into a WWAC hive mind. Everyone is reading Boys...
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Archie Comics Pubwatch: August 2023Welcome to the Archie Comics Pubwatch for the month of August! I’m Lisa, reporting from a corner booth at Pop’s Chock’lit Shoppe, and...
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WWAC Reads Books! August Brought Romance, Trans Poetry and Gripping TwistsThis month we read and enjoyed eclectically: everything from classic fantasy adventure, to trans poetry, to young adult romance, to creepy fairy...
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REVIEW: Ms. Marvel: The New Mutant #1 and Kamala Khan’s New NormalFollowing Kamala Khan’s death in The Amazing Spider-Man #26 and resurrection in this year’s Hellfire Gala, Ms. Marvel is back and an Inhuman and a...
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REVIEW: The Hills of Estrella Roja Embarks on a Spooky Southwest Gothic AdventureAshley Robin Franklin’s The Hills of Estrella Roja follows two teens on a search for cryptids around a border town in southwestern Texas. Kat is...
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ESSAY: Dead at 55: Zombi 2 (1979)Continuing a series that celebrates the fifty-fifth anniversary of Night of the Living Dead with a look at the classic zombie film and its many...
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VIZ Pubwatch: August 2023Hello again, and welcome back to another VIZ Media Pubwatch! Last month I was traveling and then recovering from COVID picked up while traveling,...
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REVIEW: Mamo Explores the Darker Side of Witchy TraditionsSas Milledge’s graphic novel Mamo embraces the cottagecore aesthetic. Its pages are filled with lush rural landscapes, small magical adventures,...
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Previously On Comics: Scott Pilgrim is BackGood morning friends. I hope you are well and keeping hydrated. It’s another short and sweet one from me today and honestly I don’t...
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REVIEW: River’s Edge Reflects Gritty Millennial MalaiseKyoko Okazaki’s graphic novel River’s Edge is a gritty foray into the lives of teenagers with nothing to lose. Originally serialized between 1993...
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Titan Comics PUBWATCH: Summer 2023Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer and enjoy some comics! We’ve been enjoying summer so much we took an extra month off (to...
