Had Anna Biller’s The Love Witch come out in 1965, it would be part of the feminist cult-film canon. The vampy Elaine (Samantha Robinson) destroys the men in her life with sex magick (!) by more or less seducing them to death. She’s unapologetic about her passion and her witchy tendencies, she makes sexy (but […]
Kjerstin Johnson
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Curse of The Love Witch
Sex Magick Shouldn’t Be This Dull
Sex magick shouldn’t be this dull.
Posted inArts
Put Your Pinkies Up at Adelina Books
Portland’s Newest Bookstore is a Safe Space for Art and Film Snobs
Portland’s newest bookstore is a safe space for art and film snobs.
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Phoebe Robinson, Dope Queen
You Can’t Touch My Hair Takes on Race and Pop Culture
You Can’t Touch My Hair takes on race and pop culture.
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Bad Moms: Motherhood Through Bro-Colored Glasses
In Bad Moms, Amy (Mila Kunis) is a working mother of two who, out of exhaustion, rejects the perfect-mom paradigm. She joins forces with single-mom Carla (Kathryn Hahn) and stay-at-home naïf Kiki (Kristen Bell, whose hair is perpetually limp and sad, just like her) to reclaim “bad” parenting. But since Bad Moms is a film […]
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Being Empowered (Sort Of) (Not Really) with Bad Moms
Alas, Some Problems Can’t Be Solved with Binge Drinking
Alas, some problems can’t be solved with binge drinking.
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Tickled Offers a Glimpse into Tickling Fetish Videos—and Then Things Get Really Weird
I don’t recall at what point in Tickled the narration of New Zealand reporter David Farrier stops being cloying and starts to resemble the soothing tones of Werner Herzog. That’s probably because the film—which starts as a documentary about the silly, innocuous sport of “competitive endurance tickling”—gets very dark very quickly. As Tickled grows more […]
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Tickled Offers a Glimpse into Tickling Fetish Videos
And Then Things Get Really Weird
And then things get really weird.
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Weiner Is Just Like Veep—Except Not as Funny
It’s possible that if you don’t live in New York City or follow politics closely, the first time you heard about Congressman Anthony Weiner was when he sent a picture of his package over his public Twitter account. It was May 27, 2011, the day the headlines wrote themselves. Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg’s documentary […]
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Limp Weiner
The Saga of “Carlos Danger” Is Like Veep—Except Not as Funny.
The saga of “Carlos Danger” is like Veep—except not as funny.
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The Highs and Lows of In the Heights
Stumptown Stages Puts on Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Other Musical
Stumptown Stages puts on Lin-Manuel Miranda’s other musical.