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Rosamund Lannin

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    Rosamund Lannin reads and writes in Chicago. You can find her @rosamund, or in digest format at tinyletter.com/rosamund.

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    13 Thanksgiving Movies and TV Shows to Stream This Week
    Featuring classics, new favorites, and more to watch with your friends and family.
    Meryl Williams
    Nov 21, 2022
    The Horror Inside: Looking Back at the Interiors of American Horror Story
    Oh, American Horror Story. You have such campy, spooky promise, and when you deliver, you really deliver. The scenery was always a draw: even when the plot flailed, the sets gave your eyeballs a treat. Now that AHS is gradually leaving Netflix, queue up your television and relive the architectural highlights, before the episodes disappear like so many bodies. Begin with Hotel, arguably the weakest season and the first to get the axe.
    Rosamund Lannin
    May 3, 2019
    A Look at the Haunting Aquatic Spaces of The Shape of Water
    The Shape of Water—Guillermo del Toro’s latest film and nominated for seven Golden Globes—is a modern aquatic fairy tale, the story of a mute woman who falls for a fish-man. Set against the backdrop of the Cold War, the interiors provide a peek into the past, the past’s vision of the future, and insight into its memorable characters, who struggle daily with the injustice in being any kind of an Other.
    Rosamund Lannin
    May 3, 2019
    A Neighborhood Guide to The Nightmare Before Christmas
    “Twas a long time ago, longer now than it seems, in a place that perhaps you’ve seen in your dreams,” opens the 1993 classic The Nightmare Before Christmas. Going opening night as a kid felt like a dream; seeing it at 10pm and getting the Kids’ Combo blurred reality’s edges in the best sugar high, up past my bedtime kind of way. For some people, Die Hard is their edgy holiday movie.
    Rosamund Lannin
    May 3, 2019