Lost Loves in Green Lights: Wim Wenders’s Paris, Texas

|Penny Folger| A man wanders a Texan desert landscape in a red cap, mute, and in a daze. Rather than walking along the roadside, he seems to be walking down an invisible path that cuts across the landscape and that only he can see. We don’t know it yet, but this man is a… Continue reading

The Silver Tongued Devil’s Last Ride

Kris Kristofferson casually performs the song "I'd Rather Be Sorry" on an acoustic guitar with Karen Black inside his apartment home studio.

| Matthew Tchepikova-Treon | Have you ever been hungover in church? That particular feeling is what Kris Kristofferson’s album The Silver Tongued Devil and I sounds like. Or it’s how I’d describe it anyway. Sweat, salvation, and self-loathing, but in a fun sorta way. Because by Sunday night you again remember… Continue reading

The Badlands of Downtown LA

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

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