Every few years, I get an urge to watch anime again. This urge, equivalent to when someone feels like eating a certain food, usually lasts a few months. This year, I was reminded of an anime I saw briefly...
On a black screen, two lines of text fade into view: “This film was made in secret. When there is no way, a way must be made.” This epigraph marks the beginning of The Seed of the Sacred Fig, a courageous...
For better or for worse, Francis Ford Coppola’s decades-long personal project Megalopolis seems to be one of the year’s most talked-about films, yet nobody is actually bothering to watch it. Walking...
Over the summer, I spent a lot of time watching talk shows and reality television. For one hour a night, people would exploit themselves for validation from the public. They presented the worst version...
Confession: I didn’t watch Beetlejuice for the first time until I’d turned 18. I felt indifferent to it and thus didn’t see it as necessary to watch. However, I was pleasantly surprised by what I...
Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance asks us a deceptively simple question: What if a single drug could make you perfect? In today’s internet age, it’s already more difficult to control what random strangers...
Kelley Lebahn, Editor in Chief-
Last summer, my beach read of choice was R.F. Kuang’s Babel. Babel is a historical fiction/fantasy novel set in Oxford, London, in the fictional school of Translation....
Technology and social media, while damaging to the physicality of the literary world, have brought out a new side of the spectrum. BookTok is one of the many subcategories of TikTok, focusing on one specific...
Valentine’s Day is upon us once again, which means it’s the season for cheap flowers and even cheaper candy from Walmart the day of. Whether your partner doesn't care about Valentine's Day or you and...
Note From the Editor
The Crossover Staff of Fall 2023 has decided that evolving media has been the zeitgeist of our year, and we felt we each had different passions to recommend. Our writers are just...
It feels like only yesterday that Green Day announced their last album, publicly known as Father of All… because the official title features a swear in it. That album’s reception was… less than...
Horror punk is a funny name for a genre, and yet it’s been prevalent since the late 1970s. Big band (the) Misfits employ horror-punk in their stage presence and iconography. From their logo; a b-movie...
