At its peak I am confident. I’m attractive. I’m funny. I sparkle and dazzle. Everyone likes me at the peak. Everything is possible at the peak.
You’d share your pockets in the cold
when I was too headstrong to go back
inside and grab a jacket, and I’d laugh
Marianne had walked in front of the store every day for years. But only when her husband left her, only when she came home to find his closet empty, did she press her face to the glass.
Any given day I might be on my stomach trying to run an illegal cable line from the roof of a housing complex. And while the tenant holds my legs, he or she might engage me in a conversation about couples counseling or old dog adoption.
I remember what you are—scab, totem,
juniper on the side of this house. do you make me
kind? would you like to reach between my doors—
lurid as a milksnake?
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Mr. Butterchips takes on gun nuts in Alex Schumacher's latest strip.
I catch coldness here, I hold the glitter. can we agree
to forget this? forget last night with my cocktail, my
caring so much for so little in my hand? today, I awaken
how it loves its own silky skin, goes mad
for the taste of its own salt-blood.
She wished they’d realized this before she’d traded in her elastic-waist pants for less flexible slacks. In hindsight, maybe she shouldn’t have pulled out her harmonica when asked about hobbies. Anyway, at some point during her drunken escapades, this flyer had appeared in her lap.
In case you aren’t aware, pretty much every publication has a list of people they refuse to work with. This is not something that should be made public, though some less than desirables insist it’s only right, and that blacklists themselves are a form of censorship.
Gabriel Ricard talks Oscars, Black Panther and classic noir cinema in the latest edition of Captain Canada's Movie Rodeo!
The village once quiet and ordinary was now stained with blood and it was only 5 p.m. It was going to be a long day, and the good kind of long—the kind that was lengthy in its celebration at the bar, the kind that ended with cheers.
I gasp in utter horror at my freckles/mistake them for unspecific bugs/just ignore the data usage warnings
Carefully I parcel them up,
the shreds and remnants,
the shards, now powerless
of all your seething selves.
Warlords are avaricious; they care only for honey.
Houses the beehives on fire; eggs, larvae – all gone.
Everything about her
in thin layers.
The faint beat of her heart.
In the wake of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, M.G. Poe examines the complicated issue of gun control in America.
Critics and audiences are divided on Alex Garland's Annihilation, starring Natalie Portman in a very Natalie Portman role. Also, we take a look at other fantastical movie settings and give some final Oscar picks in this episode of Drunk Monkeys Radio!
Brian O’Malley’s (Let Us Prey) sophomore effort cements his reputation as a horror director with old school tendencies. Like Ti West’s The Innkeepers, The Lodgers relies heavily on character, deliberate pacing, and atmosphere, even though the payoff is poorly executed. Set in 1920s Ireland, twins Rachel (a standout Charlotte Vega) and Edward’s family estate is haunted by a presence which imposes three rules upon them: be in bed by midnight; never let a stranger enter; don’t try escaping, otherwise the other’s life will be endangered. Viewers demanding visceral, bloody thrills will be disappointed; others, like myself, may be briefly entranced.
It’s a miracle how effective The Housemaid remains after being at the mercy of Vietnam’s film censorship board. Set on a 1953 Indochina rubber plantation, a young woman named Linh is hired as a housemaid but falls in love with the owner, Captain Laurent, whose dead wife haunts the plantation. Some writing and pacing issues thankfully don’t detract from its strong acting, set design, and chilly atmosphere. Currently, director Derek Nguyen is arranging a remake set in America’s Reconstruction-Era Deep South, which will potentially feature an entire African-American cast and crew. Now that is a remake I want to see.