Hannah Collins
@hmvc.bsky.social
substack: https://popcultureessays.substack.com | currently: UK editor for JustWatch | formerly: editor at Buzz Magazine; CBR | aspirations: eat cheese, become cheese shaped
December 9, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Two things happened to me recently: one, I got incredibly frustrated trying to get Lady Gaga tickets, and two, I saw #Sinners and LOVED it.
These two things aren’t connected… Or are they?
These two things aren’t connected… Or are they?
Sinners: an ode to the dying soul of live music
Sinners’ release coincides with a period of abject greed and peak inaccessibility in the music industry.
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April 30, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Two things happened to me recently: one, I got incredibly frustrated trying to get Lady Gaga tickets, and two, I saw #Sinners and LOVED it.
These two things aren’t connected… Or are they?
These two things aren’t connected… Or are they?
Raspy voices, clammy sweat, shortness of breath, feverish shivering, visions of ecstasy… Being sick is kinda hot, AND gross.
The Nosferatu remake leans hard into this taboo idea to create a surprisingly potent framework for talking about intimacy post-COVID.
#Nosferatu #FilmAnalysis
The Nosferatu remake leans hard into this taboo idea to create a surprisingly potent framework for talking about intimacy post-COVID.
#Nosferatu #FilmAnalysis
In Nosferatu, sickness is sexy
The 2025 remake of the vampire classic feeds into a long history of romanticizing disease, an approach that topically fits into a fear of intimacy, post-COVID.
popcultureessays.substack.com
April 29, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Raspy voices, clammy sweat, shortness of breath, feverish shivering, visions of ecstasy… Being sick is kinda hot, AND gross.
The Nosferatu remake leans hard into this taboo idea to create a surprisingly potent framework for talking about intimacy post-COVID.
#Nosferatu #FilmAnalysis
The Nosferatu remake leans hard into this taboo idea to create a surprisingly potent framework for talking about intimacy post-COVID.
#Nosferatu #FilmAnalysis
Discoursed to death as they may be, please make a little room for ONE MORE take to throw onto the pyre of these three delightfully wild films of the last year or so.
#Nightbitch #TheSubstance #PoorThings #FilmAnalysis
#Nightbitch #TheSubstance #PoorThings #FilmAnalysis
How The Substance, Nightbitch & Poor Things celebrate the ugliest parts of motherhood
Motherhood’s most brutal elements, often obscured from mainstream view, are present in some of the most contentious films of the last year, The Substance, Nightbitch, and Poor Things.
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April 29, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Discoursed to death as they may be, please make a little room for ONE MORE take to throw onto the pyre of these three delightfully wild films of the last year or so.
#Nightbitch #TheSubstance #PoorThings #FilmAnalysis
#Nightbitch #TheSubstance #PoorThings #FilmAnalysis