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I wrote about TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA for Reverse Shot. I think it is an extraordinary film - a dizzying, unabashedly kitschy stoner rom-com. I sung its praises + did a temp check on "Trans Cinema" below: reverseshot.org/reviews/entr...

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp MiasmaHow do you make a film that feels like your own, when everything about your form has been tokenized, appropriated, wrongly treated as representative of your entire community? This is the impossible, i...reverseshot.org

on Sophie Cunningham and a trans controversy that doesn't involve any actual trans people: defector.com/the-right-ha...

I have a big piece on CAMP MIASMA dropping later this year, but I'll just say now that I liked it a lot. I found it moving. It's a different tone than Schoenbrun's elegies to dysphoria, but not entirely. It's still about being in a body, but there's an attempt to make peace with that here.

I wrote about THE ADOLESCENCE OF UTENA. I've loved this one for a long time. Some of the most pleasurable animation of the late 90s. www.patreon.com/willowcately...

hot tip: the utopia blu-ray for jane schoenbrun's we're all going to the world's fair got a new slipcover so if you don't already own the movie now's your chance to pick it up (and it comes with a lovely little booklet with an interview between me and jane) vinegarsyndrome.com/collections/...

For the last 7 months I've been working on my first zine. It's coming along nicely. 20+ pages devoted to the early years of sound animated short subjects. Coming later 2026.

Been VERY hard keeping news of this Jodo box under wraps, but its now on pre-order from old mates at Umbie. Includes critical extras from @joshnelsonfilm.bsky.social @bjcolangelo.bsky.social @sabinastent.bsky.social @mdconterio.bsky.social + more, and my brand new video essay on Santa Sangre!

Alejandro Jodorowsky Collector’s EditionAcross these films, sacred and profane imagery collide in dazzling tableaux; myths are broken apart and reassembled; and every frame pulses with the director’s relentless pursuit of artistic and spiri...shop.umbrellaent.com.au

would also like to casually recommend @willowcatelyn.bsky.social on evangelion if you're looking for some accompanying reading on the series and films :-)

"Neon Genesis Evangelion,” Episodes 1–4: The Trauma of Shinji IkariThe first in a series of essays covering Hideaki Anno's landmark mecha-anime, which is finally globally available through streaming.mubi.com

been really struggling to get out of the financial hole of this last year. cancelling my trip isn't enough. i hate doing this, it is a one-time ask, but if any help is greatly appreciated. i will also post a handful of things to sell by the end of summer. www.venmo.com/u/CatherineS...

The "canonical" debut of Bugs Bunny was released on this day in 1940, the Tex Avery short A Wild Hare. There are a couple sorta-Bugs-Bunny cartoons before this one, but it's fair to view this as his first. Happy 86th birthday, Bugs.

A Wild Hare (1940)The following essay was originally published on my Strawberry Penguin Substack on April 11, 2025. One only has to look at the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film winners and nominees to noti…strawberrypenguin.ca

Repurposed a Letterboxd essay I wrote last year about David Lynch’s THE STRAIGHT STORY, the passing of my father, and seeing American through its highways. Enjoy.

"I just hope I'm not too late."On David Lynch's "The Straight Story"oldfilmsflicker.substack.com