Katherine Webb

Film, TV and Entertainment Writer

I live in Kalamazoo, MI with my two kids and my two cats. I love writing about film, TV, pop culture, and how all three might just end up saving our sanity.

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Bright Wall/Dark Room

Bright Wall/Dark Room
09/21/2018
The Work Never Ends: HBO's 'Sharp Objects'

Sharp Objects is a slow-burning gothic horror about rage and shame and grief, one that explores-in meticulous, at times uncomfortable detail-what it feels like to live in both the midst and the aftermath of trauma.

Bright Wall/Dark Room
06/12/2017
Labyrinth (1986): The Babe With the Power

Labyrinth reminds us that even those girls who aren't destined for some heroic calling can, and will, fight like hell if the need arises.

Bright Wall/Dark Room
12/22/2017
This Must Be the Place: Home in Ang Lee's 'The Ice Storm

While The Ice Storm certainly explores the ins and outs of marital strife, of sibling rivalry, of that fragile and ever-changing bond between parent and child, it never feels like it's passing judgment on its subjects. Instead, Lee invites us to get to know these people by letting us live with them, walk the halls of their homes and lay in their beds.

ScreenRant

Screen Rant
11/16/2016
15 Times TV Shows Predicted The Future

In many ways, both big and small, television is in the business of selling us the future. Whenever you flip the channels, you're likely to find a range of fortune tellers - infomercial psychics that swear they can see all, and cable news pollsters that try to predict the outcome of everything from a horse race to the presidential election.

Screen Rant
10/14/2016
16 Scariest Episodes Of Buffy The Vampire Slayer

Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a difficult series to define, genre-wise - any devoted fan can tell you that. It's funny. It's emotional. It's introspective. It's action-packed. With seven seasons worth of vampires, witches, werewolves and countless other creepy creatures, too, we can't deny it is, in large part, a horror series.