Call Me By Your Name: the cloudy realm of first love
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
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…
Sense and Sensibility: three adaptations of Jane Austen’s first novel
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…
The Old Guard: changes from comic to movie
Ah, The Old Guard. I was entranced by this Netflix masterpiece from the moment I laid eyes on it - and I was relieved I didn’t watch it right when…
The ultimate, heartbreaking failure of Killing Eve
In my second (and final) year of college (I had a lot of transfer credits going in), I started Killing Eve. This was fall 2021, but I’d been aware of…
Percy Jackson episode 1: furies and fountains
There were two types of Percy Jackson kids growing up - the ones who got into the books because they loved Greek mythology and the ones who got into Greek…
Netflix’s Nimona elevates the themes of Stevenson’s heroine
I first read ND Stevenson’s Nimona back in high school, a year or two after it was published in 2015. (Published by HarperCollins, that is - it began as a…
