Dimension 20: Fantasy High Junior Year Around episode four or five of Dimension 20’s third season of Fantasy High (aptly dubbed Junior Year), I thought to myself giddily, “If they keep this up, this will be their best season ever.” This meaning the intensity (and amount) of character pressure on each of the Bad Kids,… Read more: Monthly Recs: May 2024

We missed the month of April in our monthly recommendations, so here’s a quick post to catch-up on everything we might have recommended. Plus some early May knockouts. Plus a cultural shift or two. Cowboy Carter – Beyoncé Cowboy Carter dropped at the tail end of March, and it would’ve been my rec for April… Read more: Quick Catch Up

your name. (2016) written and directed by Makoto Shinkai your name. begins in media res, meaning when Mitsuha attends school one day, we experience her confusion alongside her: her friends and family report that she acted strange the day before, though she has no memory why. It’s only when she fully body swaps with Taki,… Read more: Monthly Recs: March 2024

Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin Perhaps no other author has painted a whole portrait of a young man as James Baldwin has in Go Tell It on the Mountain. Baldwin begins and ends the story with John Grimes, the stepson of a violently abusive Baptist preacher, on the day of his… Read more: Monthly Recs: February 2024

Anatomy of a Fall dir. Justine Triet The first half of Anatomy of a Fall, the recent film from French writer and director Justine Triet, tells you many times over what it will not do. When the central character (and suspect) Sandra tells her lawyer Vincent that she is innocent, he says (if a little… Read more: Monthly Recs: January 2024