Tag: Harry Dean Stanton

The Badlands of Downtown LA

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Emilio Estevez’s character “Otto” takes a stroll through the chaotic nightmare of Downtown Los Angeles”

|Brogan Earney| If you’re like me and you grew up in Minnesota in the 90s or early 2000s, then we can all agree that Gordon Bombay was the shit. I first saw the Mighty Ducks films when I was 6 years old, and I quickly latched onto the character and looked up to his methodology, and I wasn’t even a hockey player. Over time, I realized that… Continue reading

Shout Out to Ellen Ripley: How Regular Heroes Inspire Us in Our Darkest Times

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Ellen Ripley stands holding Jones the cat against the backdrop of spaceship mechanicals.

|Allison Vincent| When I initially pitched this idea for Alien to Perisphere, I intended to write a snarky, humor-laden essay about the trope of smart women who are ignored in horror/sci-fi films until the very loud, usually mustachioed men who did the ignoring succumb to their dumb, … Continue reading