Reexamination

By Lindsey Bahr | Associated Press Joseph Bologne, the Chevalier de Saint-Georges, was an extraordinarily accomplished man in Marie Antoinette’s France. He was a scholar, a fencer, a virtuoso violinist and a famous and sought-after composer who wrote string quartets, symphonies and operas. His influence was vast, but he was all but erased from history books because Bologne was also Black, born in 1745 in the French colony of Guadeloupe to a wealthy French plantation owner and an enslaved Senegalese teenager. At the height…

via XLrator Media Horror fans tend to wear their inability to be genuinely terrified by onscreen scares as a badge of honor, but there aren’t many who made it through the brief 87 minutes of 2013’s Banshee Chapter without feeling at least the merest pang of fear. Allowed to slip way too far under the radar at the time of its initial release, writer and director Blair Erickson’s harrowing feature-length debut has slowly been crawling its way towards cult classic status for the last decade, based entirely on the…

Photo via HBO Reactions to the explosive conclusion of The Last of Us’ first season continue to pour in, as fresh fans finally get the chance to enjoy the season’s finale. Bella Ramsey’s stunning performance, across the season but in particular in the show’s eighth episode, is prompting a return to her previous projects, as viewers begin to see the actress in a new light. She’s made waves plenty of times before, particularly in her role as Game of Thrones’ Lyanna Mormont. That’s far from the only release to…