Some years are certainly more robust than others in terms of the number of great movie releases. While some years are ...

Mary Shelley's iconic creation has birthed dozens of revisionist takes since the 1931 classic everyone remembers. The story behind the novel is almost as famous as the novel itself: in the summer of ...

The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. Since the first presentation of projected film in 1895 by the Lumière Brothers, the ...

Men may be the more traditional villains in movies, but women have been some of the best. The kind of characters we just love to hate, played by some of the greatest actresses of all time. Here is our ...

When Derek Le Beau was a child, picking out a VHS or DVD at the movie store was a major highlight of his week. But if his father spied him choosing a title that was “a little too gay,” he’d try to ...

Born with Autism (formerly classified as Asperger syndrome), Tyler B. Searle has been obsessed with storytelling since he was old enough to speak. He gravitated towards fairy tales, mythology, the ...

Editor's note: This story is an excerpt from WBUR's weekly arts and culture newsletter, The ARTery. If you like what you read and want it in your inbox, sign up here. A queer romance film starring ...