The Transformative Power of Girl on Top: Death, Sex, and Agency in The Terminator

Sarah Connor and Kyle Reese have an intimate conversation in the Tiki Motel

|Chelli Riddiough| The Terminator isn’t a very horny film, unless you’re into feathered mullets and homicidal Austrians. But inside this ‘80s action thriller lives a love story, and not one, but two, very weird sex scenes. That’s enough to catapult it into a genre I call “cyberspunk.” When The Terminator begins, our protagonist… Continue reading

Male Hysteria; or, Fear of Magna Cum Laude Pussy

|Devin Bee| There’s a great gag in the show 30 Rock where we view the world through the eyes of Kenneth, the eternally cheerful and naïve NBC page played by Jack McBrayer. What Kenneth sees is not a world of flesh-and-blood creatures, but one populated entirely by muppets— Continue reading