Archive - Medium Cool

We took a dare to watch as many of Madonna's 1990s films as we could

Oct 6 •

and

September 2024

MY MOTHER’S ILLEGAL ABORTION

"She was like Mrs. Dalloway in that way—she would buy the abortion herself."

Sep 29 •

BROKEN LEASE, BROKEN HEART

"Just because you and your girlfriend make great partners, doesn’t mean that you would have been good at cohabitation."

Sep 15 •

WHAT’S YOUR FASSBINDER RELATIONSHIP STYLE?

A quiz that uses the bad boy of 1970s cinema to help you navigate love

Sep 8 •

and

August 2024

WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT MORVERN CALLAR

How Emily’s two decade grudge against Lynne Ramsay’s breakout film ended

Aug 30 •

and

NATURE, NURTURE, AND INERTIA

Novelist Rob Hart tries to understand JD Vance by reading his terrible book

Aug 25 •

Before Nathan Fielder there was A Day With Picasso

Aug 18 •

APOCALYPSE THEN

Inventing goth-hop was the Golden Palominos final act

Aug 7 •

July 2024

ARE YOU GEN X OR MILLENNIAL?

One simple film question will settle the endless debate

Jul 29 •

and

Recovering from Covid with David Cronenberg and Marilyn Chambers

Jul 25 •

and

Revisiting Anna Gaskell’s 1990s photography in the new age of kinderhorror

Jul 15 •

DRESSING THE GHOST

A short story that asks if a dress belongs to the living or the dead

Jul 14 •

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