Rachel Bellwoar

2 weeks ago | wp.me | Rachel Bellwoar

It’s one thing knowing a town’s bad news — a name like “Promise” was always going to be a hard sell. It’s another having to visit that town because your dad’s gone there.

2 weeks ago | wp.me | Rachel Bellwoar

Whether they were known for playing femme fatales (Audrey Totter) or the one person who might be able to change their man’s ways (Evelyn Keyes), the six woman profiled in Eddie Muller‘s book, Dark City Dames: The Women Who Defined Film Noir, are huge contributors to why the genre remains heralded to this day.

3 weeks ago | wp.me | Rachel Bellwoar

At this point we know Reggie is Kid Wicked, but that transformation didn’t happen overnight. In the finale to Archie Is Mr. Justice, writer Blake Howard and artist Federico Sabbatini give Reggie space to tell his side of events and you can learn more about their issue in the following interview:Rachel Bellwoar: Supervillains aren’t always known for being the most self-aware. What was it like having Reggie be the one to tell his own story and do you think he’s a reliable narrator?

3 weeks ago | wp.me | Rachel Bellwoar

Research isn’t just for learning more about famous people and stories. It’s about finding and telling stories that have been forgotten, even in their own time. Nobody was keeping deep tabs on the O’Dwyer family and the many tragedies that befell them in life. Still to this day stories about mental illness get ignored because they can be difficult, uncomfortable, or because for all the strides that have been made, there’s still a lot that could be improved.

1 month ago | wp.me | Rachel Bellwoar

In their commentary track film historian Elizabeth Purchell and filmmaker Zach Clark bring up that one of the films Motorpsycho was paired with at drive-in theaters was Kitten with a Whip. If you’re familiar with both movies this makes complete sense, but also points to the hypocrisy of Hollywood. While Kitten with a Whip has certainly been looked down on before (however wrongly so), it’s still a Hollywood movie starring Ann-Margaret. Motorpsycho gets no such respect.