Went Up the Hill is an ambitious attempt to metamorphose a ghost story into something deeper and darker. Unfortunately, the film tries to juggle far too many themes and ends up unable to flesh out any.
EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW: Breaking Up is Hard to Do in Ren Strapp’s HOW COULD YOU
WWAC is excited to present an exclusive preview of the queer coming of age graphic novel How Could You, coming this December from creator Ren Strapp and Oni Press!
Previously on Comics: Awards, Stopping Project 2025, and Celeb Children’s Authors
Good morning from your Friendly Neighbourhood Previously Editor. I’m here with a round-up of all the news from pop culture last week.
TIFF 2024 Review: Daniela Forever Warns Against Skipping the Grieving Process
In Daniela Forever, a couple in the honeymoon phase of their relationship is torn apart by circumstances beyond their control. The surviving partner finds that bereavement is too overwhelming; he’d rather skip it altogether.
WWACommendations: Noss & Zakuro, Minicomics and More
This and, spoilers, the upcoming WWACommendations contain some of my favorite things: Fall reads, zines, and mini-comics! We’re coming to you post CAKE, SPX, and several other indie fests, and as I write this intro the Short Box Comics Fair is also underway. On top of that, it’s also Fall publishing season in the mainstream…
TIFF 2024 Review: The Life of Chuck Searches For Joy in Small Moments
The Life of Chuck tells the three-part story of one man’s life and the memories he left with the people in his life. Based on a Stephen King novella, the Mike Flanagan film aims to make joy in a cynical world. Does it succeed?
ESSAY: Lestat’s Precursors: The Vroucolacas in America
The previous post in this series examined stories by Edgar Allan Poe, Washington Irving, and Ambrose Bierce that explored the themes of macabre resurrection and twisted sexuality, thereby helping to pave the way for later generations of American vampire literature. However, none of these stories directly addressed vampire folklore.
REVIEW: Storm #1 Spotlights the Heart of the Goddess, the Hero, the Mutant
An explosion leaves devastation in its wake in Storm #1. The world’s most powerful mutant, Ororo Munroe, can never turn away from those in need. But this rescue effort may put her body and soul in more danger than she’s ever been in before.
Archie Comics Pubwatch: September 2024
Welcome to the Archie Comics Pubwatch for September! I’m Lisa, reporting from a corner booth at Pop’s Chock’lit Shoppe, and here’s this month’s news! In September’s Pubwatch, there are interviews, plenty of new variant covers, and much more!
TIFF 2024 Review: Can I Get a Witness? Begs Humanity to Fix Itself Before We Need to Make Extreme Sacrifices
How far will humanity go to save itself and the planet? Are we willing to make the sacrifices called for to ensure the next generation doesn’t suffer like ours? In Ann Marie Fleming’s Can I Get a Witness?, the audience is asked to bear witness to the extreme choices humanity must make to survive.
REVIEW: Big Jim and the White Boy Gives an American Classic the Political Reimagining it Needs
You thought you knew the story – a 14-year-old boy escapes his abusive father to go on a grand-adventure with an enslaved man accused of murder. But what if Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn told the wrong story? Big Jim and the White Boy revisits Twain’s classic tale from a fresh perspective and a…
TIFF 2024 Review: Love in the Big City Is Full of Cliches and Tropes, But It Somehow Makes You Love It
Based on the novel by Korean author Sang Young Park, Love in the Big City is a coming-of-age and coming-out story set in Seoul, against a backdrop of a society too rigid to accept people who are different.