Kristen Lopez
A freelance film critic whose work fuels the Rotten Tomatoes meter. I've been published on The Hollywood Reporter, Remezcla, and The Daily Beast. I've been featured in the L.A. Times. I currently run two podcasts, Citizen Dame and Ticklish Business.
When Shaun of the Dead came out it was touted as the first “rom-zom-com.” John McPhail’s Anna and the Apocalypse goes one better, by making a zom-com-musical! The headline is cheesy but let’s get the obvious out of the way: it’s a must-own and every word from hereon out […]
Scholars have analyzed horror features from nearly every angle, but it isn’t often that a documentary takes an incisive and, at times, blunt view of the way a minority group has been portrayed in cinema. As it’s stated in Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror, now available […]
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This week the Dames are joined by Tael Tygiel.
It’s probably wrong to describe Dan Gilroy’s Velvet Buzzsaw as pretentious when it knows it is. This satirical take on artistic expression (or what people think artistic expression means) is certainly eye-catching and fascinating, when it’s not actively trying to repel you. More of an indictment against criticism than the […]
This week, the Dames are talking about: R. Kelly is dropped by Sony! Disney is rebooting that Victor Hugo feel-good classic, The Hunchback of Notre Dame Jason Reitman flips the bird to Paul Feig and the lady Ghostbusters Lauren brings us a new installment of And Another Thing! Trailers for: […]
The Dames return from vacation to catch up on the last month of news.