The other day, I waded into an online argument I knew would not result in any changed minds or new understanding. It was about whether a certain character ‘should’ or ‘could’ be played by a woman instead of a man, with the arguments mostly boiling down to, “it would change…

Many years ago, while exploring a warren of a used bookstore in Kutztown, PA, I came across two volumes of Hollywood RPF. Two flaking, bound volumes from 1942–43: Ginger Rogers and the Riddle of the Scarlet Cloak by Lela E. …

[Light spoilers for The Man Who Killed Don Quixote] I don’t want to be too hard on Terry Gilliam. The guy’s obviously gone through a lot in his attempts to adapt Don Quixote for the past nearly 30 years, and it’s evidently a miracle The Man Who Killed Don Quixote…

This week, as everyone was freaking out about Game of Thrones, I finished season 2 of Star Trek: Discovery. Ever since, I’ve been debating how to write this, and why. It’s important to me that I love Star Trek, in its myriad forms. I’ve ruled out wanting a rehash of…