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The Strand Reviews Parasite

Bong Joon Ho’s new film is a beautiful, tragic, and hilarious exploration of the class struggle

The Strand Reviews In Fabric

The category is “Susperia, but make it department store chic”. Peter Strickland pays homage to vintage giallo horrors and Hammer Film Production with In Fabric. It takes place in a distorted version of either 1970s or 1980s England, in a fictional town that clings to the fading idea of luxury where a beautiful artery-red dress wreaks havoc on the lives of all who come in ...

Chilly Bitch Winter

Hot girl summer and thotumn have come and gone; ‘tis the season to sit in front of your light-therapy lamp in an attempt to ease those winter blues while wrapped in endless layers. Here are some icy tunes for sliding into winter’s frosty embrace.  “Horchata” by Vampire Weekend  “50 Words for Snow” by Kate Bush  “Sister Winter” by Sufjan Stevens  ...

What I’ve been watching on Disney+ this week

High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, JONAS, and more

A Streetcar Named Desire Review

Content Warning: Mentions of domestic violence.  A story of an old world clashing with a new and brutal one, with all the hypocrisy and ugliness that such a story entails. Blanche DuBois (Amy Rutherford) has come to live with her sister Stella (Leah Doz) and Stella’s husband Stanley Kowalski (Mac Fyfe) in their New Orleans apartment after losing her job as a high school teacher and her ancestral plantation home, Belle ...

Review: The Goldfinch

On September 19, the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) hosted an intimate screening of the film

The Strand reviews JFL42

Eric Andre, Nick Kroll, Ron Funches, and Kate Berlant (feat. Joel Kim Booster)

When horror novels stray from fiction

Stephen King’s reign of terror continues with racism

Climate strike and Richard Long’s “A Line Made by Walking” (1967)

When environmentalism and art intersect

Your witchy aesthetic is problematic

You don’t have to appropriate culture just to say “I’m not like other girls”