BJ Colangelo
Location
Los Angeles, California
School
Western Illinois University
Expertise
Cult Cinema, Coming-of-Age Teen Girl Movies, Adult Animation
- BJ is an award-winning filmmaker known for her shorts "Labrys," "Margaret," her feature film "Powerbomb," and her contribution to the anthology film "Deathcember."
- She was a panelist for the San Diego Comic-Con "Queer Fear" legacy panel in 2019, El Rey Network's 'Top 5,' in 2020, and featured in the "Queer for Fear" docuseries on Shudder from Bryan Fuller in 2022.
- BJ is a voting member of GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics.
Experience
BJ Colangelo is the Lead Evening News Editor at /Film, meaning her years of training her brain to stay up late watching movies have finally paid off. BJ has been writing professionally about film for over a decade, having been published everywhere from Fangoria Magazine, Playboy.com, Autostraddle, Vulture, The Daily Dot, and Shudder. BJ has contributed to the books "Creepy B****es," "When Animals Attack!," "Hidden Horror 101," "Evil Seeds: The Ultimate Movie Guide to Villainous Children," and the upcoming "Haunted Reels" from Dark Matter Ink and "Sleepaway Camp" from DieDieBooks. She also co-hosts the popular podcast, "This Ends at Prom," with her wife Harmony, during which they analyze movies marketed to teen girl audiences from the cis and transgender lens. She often serves as a jury member for film festivals specializing in horror or queer cinema.
Education
BJ Colangelo has a B.A. in Theatre from Western Illinois University with a minor in English Literature with an emphasis on film theory.
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Stories By BJ Colangelo
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Alien: Romulus went back to basics with the Xenomorph (and a shocking new creature) played by real, extremely tall actors.
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Alien: Covenant is probably the most divisive Alien film, but there's one area in which Alien: Romulus readily improves upon it.
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The Alien franchise has always been for Certified Sickos, and a certain part of Alien: Romulus kicks things high gear.
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Director Ridley Scott's 2012 prequel Prometheus has a somewhat iffy reputation these days, but it's an absolutely essential entry in the Alien franchise.
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Gena Rowlands, the legendary star of A Woman Under the Influence, Gloria, and The Notebook has passed away at the age of 94.
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Zoe Kravitz's Blink Twice is a genuine, jaw-dropping thrill ride, and the biggest surprise film of the year. Here's our review.
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House of the Dragon season 2 raises questions about a certain Dragonstone prop and how it found its way there to begin with.
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Gilligan's Island had its fair share of directors over the course of its run, but perhaps none more interesting than a real movie star-turned-director.
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/Film is on the ground at D23, and we've got the latest information on the Ironheart series for Disney+.
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Andor season 2 will bring back arguably the best Star Wars series we've seen so far and takes us closer to Rogue One. What's in store for the rebel spy?
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James Cameron shared some new information about Avatar 3 during the D23 presentation in Anaheim. Here's what we learned.
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Crawl 2 is officially in the works, and the sequel will be taking the action to a surprising new location, with director Alexandre Aja will be back at the helm.
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The great Dan Stevens plays a weirdo in the new movie Cuckoo, so we took that as an opportunity to rank all of the freaky lil' weirdos he's played so far.
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Cuckoo stars Hunter Schafer and Dan Stevens tell us about their relationship to the horror genre, their contrasting performances, and more.
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Justin Baldoni adapts Colleen Hoover's It Ends with Us with Blake Lively in the lead role, and our review finds the movie to be infuriating and manipulative.
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The Simpsons writers once wrote an episode that would have featured Woody Allen as a guest star. Here's the unexpected reason the director's cameo was canceled.
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Candyman director Bernard Rose had an unlikely start to his career.
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Drop Dead Gorgeous is almost an anti-teen comedy, but studio execs wanted something closer to Clueless.
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Kurt Russell is in talks to join the newest Taylor Sheridan Yellowstone spin-off along with Michelle Pfeiffer and Suits star Patrick J. Adams.
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Deadpool & Wolverine features Blake Lively in the role of Lady Deadpool, and she shares a stunt double with Wonder Woman.
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Deadpool & Wolverine is a gay movie. Deal with it.
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One big action scene in Deadpool & Wolverine feels like it was inspired directly by a classic arcade game.
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The Star Trek: Lower Decks team deliberately designed animated 'sets' that resemble the low budget look of the original series.
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The new trailer for Borderlands brings the rough-and-tumble planet of Pandora to life as Cate Blanchett leads a crew of intrepid vault hunters.
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Star Trek: Lower Decks' creatives put a lot of work into translating the franchise's trademark shirt colors into animation.
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Is Alys Rivers a witch, a ghost, or a figment of Daemon's imagination? House of the Dragon season 2 has finally cleared things up (sort of).
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Shelby Oaks is a promising horror debut from YouTube film enthusiast-turned-filmmaker Chris Stuckmann. Here's our review.