Author: Francesca Fau

‘Rick and Morty’ showed us what its got and we couldn’t believe it. The greatest trick Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim ever pulled was making you think…

‘Bob’s Burgers’ understands courtroom drama better than its serious minded contemporaries. A trial is theater with purpose. We can skip around it. We can willfully…

How ‘The Edge of Seventeen’ spots the differences between teen angst and teen depression.

‘Lilo & Stitch’ deserves better. Lilo & Stitch is the “Barb” of Disney movies. Yes, Atlantis: The Lost Empire and Treasure Planet exist. However, neither of…

How one network sustains itself on true crime alone.‘Deadly Women’“The worst monsters are real,” Sword & Scale’s host Mike Boudet states over the sinister hum of…

Anne Bancroft’s Fatso and weight in film.Dom eats a street hotdog.Amongst pop-culture films about weight issues like Heavy Weights and Shallow Hal sits Anne Bancroft’s Fatso. Fatso…

Still wondering about Barb. Netflix has released five production stills for the season two of Stranger Things. Don’t worry, the images still keep the mystery of…

Why social media is the most powerful weapon in the quest for diversity in film. Twitter is less a way of connection and more a venue…

The Young Pope and the role of irreverence in culture. Blasphemy. Heresy. Crude. Obscene. Dirty words used to describe unclean things: popular works that discuss religion…