Over the years, super-producer Ryan Murphy has demonstrated huge imagination and heart for feminist concerns from Popular to Glee, American Horror Story to The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story. His work has also entertained with the dubious spectacle of broadly drawn ladies being outrageously witchy to each other — sometimes in service of making points about cultural misogyny, sometimes because pitched bitchiness clearly amuses him. With his promising new anthology series Feud: Bette and Joan, devoted to notorious real-life rivalries, Murphy tackles these themes and tendencies head-on, and asks us to do the same. Read More...
Genovia; Wakanda; Panem; Themyscira; Gilead. Just reading the names of these fictional countries evokes such vivid colors and textures that they nearly become real. Some are like a dream we'd love to visit over and over again, while others we're happy are fully fictional given the dark content of the stories in which they reside. Either way, each of these mythical lands has its own unique iconography that fascinates and makes us want to learn more about them. Read More...
“I won’t let you down.” “I know you won’t.” In true Final Fantasy fashion, the conceptual CG trailer for Final Fantasy XV features a shifting reality, which teases events to come. Titled “Omen,” the epic production is a collaboration between the Final Fantasy XV team and DIGIC Pictures, the same 3D animation studio involved with the film Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV. The main score behind the trailer, by Andreas Kübler from the studio IMAscore, captures the “endlessness” of Noctis and his struggle with fate. Read More...
