Danielle Ryan

Pride month may be over, but that’s no reason to stop celebrating the stories of LGBTQ+ people all year-round! We’re just past the halfway point for the year, making it a great time for reflection on the year so far. While this year hasn’t been great…

Writer and director Yorgos Lanthimos loves to make his audiences uncomfortable, whether it’s in the subject matter presented on screen or the way he presents it. He loves using fish-eye lenses and extreme depth-of-field to distort the image, making…

CONTENT WARNING: This piece contains discussion of sexual assault, domestic abuse, and trauma. It also contains Astarion romance spoilers for Baldur’s Gate 3. Larian Studios’ Baldur’s Gate 3 has exceeded expectations for fans who wanted an immersive…

I was maybe fifteen or so the first time I saw the punk movie musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch, and though I would lack the words to describe myself for at least another decade, I felt deep kinship with the gender-bending lead character, Hedwig.…

Sitcoms frequently revolve around truly terrible people. The format requires ridiculous situations in order to work (that's where the "sit" in sitcom comes from), and well-adjusted people would usually take care of the situations reasonably, if they…

This article contains spoilers for season 2, episode 7 of "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds." There's something really special about "Star Trek." The science fiction franchise has been around since 1966, showing audiences creator Gene Roddenberry's…

This article contains spoilers for season 2, episode 2 of "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds." "Star Trek," like most good science fiction, has used its out-of-this-world storytelling to impart lessons about our own world ever since it debuted back in…

This post contains spoilers for the season 2 premiere of "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds." The U.S.S. Enterprise has a new face in "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" season 2, but the actor who plays her is pretty familiar to film and TV fans. Carol Kane…

This post contains spoilers for the season 2 premiere of "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds." Klingons have one of the most interesting cultures in "Star Trek," and like many cultures, theirs has a heavy emphasis on food and drink, particularly…

The latest season of "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" is here, and it has revived one of the gang's longest-held traditions: failing miserably. Charlie (Charlie Day), Mac (Rob McElhenney), Dennis (Glenn Howerton), and Dee (Kaitlin Olson) have…

(Welcome to Movies Are Gay, a Pride Month series where we explore the intentional [or accidental] ways LGBTQIA+ themes, characters, and creatives have shaped cinema.) This article contains references to sexual assault and systemic abuse. Reader…

(Welcome to Movies Are Gay, a Pride Month series where we explore the intentional, or accidental, ways LGBTQIA+ themes, characters, and creatives have shaped cinema.) Joel Schumacher's Batman movies are pretty contentious among fans of the Caped…

This article contains spoilers for the series finale of "Succession." There was never going to be a happy ending. "Succession" is a true Shakespearean tragedy for the ages, where no one is a winner because every "hero" has some fatal flaw. It's no…

As long as there have been teenagers, there have been troubled teenagers. Adolescence is brutal, a time when people have to learn how to be adults and leave behind their childhoods, all while dealing with raging hormones and a changing body. There…

Logan Roy was many things — a media titan, the patriarch of the Roy family, and a business genius. He was a self-made man who grew up in difficult circumstances and yet made himself one of the most successful businessmen in the entire world. He was…

This post contains spoilers for "Tár." (If you haven't seen "Tár" yet, check out our review instead.) This piece also discusses sexual assault, abuse, and suicide. Reader discretion is advised. When Todd Field courted financiers to produce his…

It's getting weird out there. We almost seem to be living in a post-satire era, where fact and fiction feel so interchangeable that it can be hard to tell what's news and what's a well-written joke. When The Onion starts feeling more accurate than…

This article contains spoilers for season 4, episode 6 of "Succession." There are quite a few similarities between the Fox and Netflix comedy "Arrested Development" and the HBO tragicomedy "Succession," from the composition of the filthy rich and…

Class divides have plagued us almost since the dawn of civilization, since the very first groups of humans separated themselves according to the haves and have-nots. From the caveman with the biggest stick to the CEO with the largest bank account,…

Gender has become a hot political topic, and drag shows have become the battleground for a conservative war against self-expression. Fire-and-brimstone-spewing lawmakers are creating legislation to shut down drag shows and penalize anyone who…