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Andor season 2 episodes 4-6: raise my hopes just to shatter them

By Sophie Montecalvo May 4, 2025Star Wars Sunday

Ah, Andor: politically relevant, emotionally weighty, cinematically gorgeous. Also: crusher of dreams, breaker of hearts, murderer of my soul. Well, let’s not get hyperbolic. Let’s just try to focus on…

Andor season 2 episodes 1-3: a slow burn with rising stakes

By Sophie Montecalvo April 27, 2025Star Wars Sunday

I remember finishing the first season of Andor in 2022 thinking “Wait what? What kind of an ending is that?” before realizing it wasn’t a miniseries: we had a second…

Call Me By Your Name: the cloudy realm of first love

By Sophie Montecalvo April 25, 2025Fiction Friday

Time makes us sentimental. Perhaps, in the end, it is because of time that we suffer. My first interaction with Call Me By Your Name was when I saw the…

The Beguiled: seduction and betrayal in the gothic South

By Sophie Montecalvo April 11, 2025Fiction Friday

1966 introduced the world to Thomas P. Cullinan’s The Beguiled. The gothic thriller was made into a movie starring Clint Eastwood just five years later, followed by a second adaptation…

Curated Toilet Seat Changing Playlist

By Sophie Montecalvo April 8, 2025Tune Tuesday

We’ve all been there. You’re on the cusp of 23, trying to catch up on Cheers so you can play the trivia game for it with your parents, when your…

Disobedience: a clash of Jewish culture and queer identity

By Sophie Montecalvo April 7, 2025Movie Monday

There's nothing quite like watching a sapphic movie, enjoying it, checking out the source material, and realizing said sapphic-ness was not quite as heavy (or even present in the first…

Mickey 17 & The Monkey: one actor, two characters

By Sophie Montecalvo March 24, 2025Movie Monday

After my best friend and I made a double feature out of Mickey 17 and The Monkey, I commented about the unintentional parallel between the movies: they both featured a…

Sense and Sensibility: three adaptations of Jane Austen’s first novel

By Sophie Montecalvo March 21, 2025Fiction Friday

When I first read Sense and Sensibility for a high school English class, I declared it “harder to understand than Shakespeare.” This was a grandiose statement bolstered by my adoration…

Mufasa: entertaining nostalgia bait with touches of heart

By Sophie Montecalvo February 10, 2025Movie Monday

I stand by the fact that if OUAT had done a Lion King episode, Mufasa would be Scar’s tragic backstory. (Or, as I was so fond of calling those villain-origin…

12 Angry Men endures, from the 50’s to the 90’s

By Sophie Montecalvo January 27, 2025Movie Monday

I recently watched 1957’s 12 Angry Men with a friend who recommended it. She said, “You don’t expect a movie about twelve guys arguing in a room to be so…