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GIFT and Sunflower Bean Are Reclaiming the Word “Psych”

By Sunflower Bean | July 23, 2025

By Sunflower Bean | July 23, 2025

GIFT and Sunflower Bean Are Reclaiming the Word “Psych”

Julia Cumming, Nick Kivlen, and TJ Freda talk the limits of genre, NYC in the 2010s, and more.

Little Forest, Comfort Film, and the Neuroscience of Genrefluidity

By Jim Cummings | November 17, 2021

By Jim Cummings | November 17, 2021

Little Forest, Comfort Film, and the Neuroscience of Genrefluidity

The Beta Test writer-director-star Jim Cummings on the why the overlooked 2018 Korean film is essential viewing for all.

Why Women Need to Tell Rape Stories

By Natalia Leite | November 8, 2017

By Natalia Leite | November 8, 2017

Why Women Need to Tell Rape Stories

Director Natalia Leite scrutinizes the rape-revenge genre, and questions why these films are always made by men …