BRING THEM DOWN: a toxic masculinity thriller in rural Ireland
by Emily Maesar, Associate TV Editor
Bring Them Down is an engaging thriller filled with stunning performances that will have you on the edge of your seat.
Interview: Alex Jacobs, Editor of IN A VIOLENT NATURE
by Emily Maesar, Associate TV Editor
For the release of the Collector’s Edition of the film, MovieJawn’s Associate TV Editor, Emily Maesar, sat down with the film’s editor, Alex Jacobs, to talk about what it was like making the film and what the reception has been like.
EAT THE NIGHT is a thrilling parable of the modern yearning
by Emily Maesar, Associate TV Editor
Eat the Night is a thrilling parable of the modern ways emotional yearning manifests with electric performances and stunning visuals.
We Used to Be Friends: The Bursting of the Buffy Bubble
by Emily Maesar, Associate TV Editor
Three shows after the Buffy era encapsulate where we were as a culture and their endings are significant to how things were looking in the television landscape at the time, something of great interest to me.
Best of 2024: Emily Maesar's Top 10 movies
by Emily Maesar, Associate TV Editor
Emily shares her favorite movies of 2024.
Best of 2024: The Best TV Shows of the Year
As the year comes to a close, our staff looks at the best TV shows they watched in 2024.
Read MoreBest of 2024: I TOLD YA – CHALLENGERS' costumes are deeply intentional
by Emily Maesar, Associate TV Editor
While Jonathan Anderson captures the time periods with perfect precision, he’s also masterful at allowing the characters to speak for themselves with their clothing over the course of the most important 13 years of their lives.
Overlooked 2024: Weird (and Sad) Girls
by Emily Maesar, Associate Editor, TVJawn
There’s a specific kind of film that almost always works for me, when made with pure joy of the thing, and that’s the “weird and sad girls” genre.
Party Like It's 1999: Why DOGMA remains Kevin Smith's deepest film
by Emily Maesar, Associate TV Editor
“I think it's better to have ideas. You can change an idea. Changing a belief is trickier.”
We Used to Be Friends 05-06: THE SUITE LIFE WITH DEREK
by Emily Maesar, Associate TV Editor
The new pre-teen and teen shows of the season were largely on kid-centered networks like Nickelodeon and Disney Channel.
BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS is a beautiful restoration, but remains a blue monday
by Emily Maesar, Associate TV Editor
If there was ever proof that adapting Vonnegut’s work is a Herculean task then it’s visible, without any abstractions, in Alan Rudolph’s 1999 fever dream of a film, Breakfast of Champions.
We Used to Be Friends 04-05: Teen noirs and how the internet changed everything with VERONICA MARS
by Emily Maesar, Associate TV Editor
Veronica Mars represents the closing of the walls on a certain type of teen show based on networks.
Grotesqueries Week: Playing games with Jigsaw and Billy the Puppet for SAW's 20th
by Emily Maesar, Associate Editor, TVJawn
What is Saw? Like, really? Well, it’s not actually torture porn, despite what poisonous fruits have since grown in its orchard. Instead, the original Saw is much more of a mystery.
Ghouls Week: Joining them–EVIL DEAD and the staying power of the Necronomicon
by Emily Maesar, Associate Editor, TVJawn
A short film, five feature films, a three season television series, and an off-Broadway musical are among the ways you can encounter Deadites and the Dark Ones after reading from the Necronomicon.
Ghost Week: After 15 years, PARANORMAL ACTIVITY is truly a modern horror classic
by Emily Maesar, Associate Editor, TVJawn
Thus, Paranormal Activity became the 2000s major case of word-of-mouth film marketing. It opened wider and wider until it was inescapable.
We Used to Be Friends 03-04: Welcome to ONE TREE HILL
by Emily Maesar, Associate TV Editor
Two of the biggest teen shows of the 2000s started on Fox and The WB with The O.C. and One Tree Hill, respectively.
Legendary TV series LOST turns 20!
As legendary television series LOST turns 20, our staff writes a bit about their relationship with the series.
Read MoreWe Used to Be Friends 02-03: Animated Teens with a Twist
by Emily Maesar, Associate TV Editor
During the TV season of 2002-2003 there were no new teen shows.
(Record scratch)
Well, that’s actually not true—there were no new live-action teen shows
We Used to Be Friends 01-02: The Rise of Revivals and Superheroes
by Emily Maesar, Associate TV Editor
Which, as always, kind of proves that teen shows are sometimes ahead of the ultimate curve—if only because teens are a demographic that allows for real trial by fire.
We Used to Be Friends: 00-01, edgy and sentimental in Stars Hollow
by Emily Maesar, Associate TV Editor
Like Buffy the Vampire Slayer before it, Gilmore Girls remains both impactful because of its structure, its quick and quotable dialogue, and its utter rewatchability.