Holding Out for a Heroine
Features Kaylin Baker-Fields Features Kaylin Baker-Fields

Holding Out for a Heroine

I remember the first time I watched a Studio Ghibli film, my mom brought home a VHS of Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989) from the library when I was eight years old.

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Everybody Don’t Need a Stuntman
Features Anna Swanson Features Anna Swanson

Everybody Don’t Need a Stuntman

On the set of the fictional Western television program Bounty Law, a promo host introduces both his fictional small screen audience and the viewer to the two ruggedly handsome cowboy types sitting beside one another.

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False Mothers and Transcendent Witches
Features Mina Sewell Mancuso Features Mina Sewell Mancuso

False Mothers and Transcendent Witches

In the original 1977 film Suspiria, screenwriters Dario Argento and Daria Nicolodi wove a dark lore around these figures: three powerful, evil witches known as the Mother of Tears, the Mother of Darkness, and the Mother of Sighs.

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