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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No, destroying theaters during the Chicken Jockey scene in A Minecraft Movie is not at all like audience participation with The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
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Television
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Netflix struck a big deal to host WWE’s Monday Night RAW, but the ratings seem to indicate that it's lost a lot of viewers since then, and that's bad news.
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Sinners' Miles Caton, who's at the center of an epic music-driven moment in the movie, tells us about a musical performance he experienced that blew him away.
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We spoke with the incomparable Delroy Lindo about working with Ryan Coogler on Sinners, why he didn't see the movie as a horror film, and much more.
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Ryan Coogler's Sinners beautifully subverts the modern pathway of telling vampire stories to remind the world of who the true monsters really are.
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Clueless is getting a TV series adaptation at Peacock, but this iteration is different from the one announced back in 2020, and Alicia Silverstone is involved.
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The sci-fi horror comedy Touch Me is the type of boundary-pushing film that encourages viewers to expand their horizons.
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Christopher Landon walked away from Scream 7, but still managed to find a way to pay homage to Scream filmmaker Wes Craven in his new thriller, Drop.
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The McManus Brothers have made their best movie yet with Redux Redux, a sci-fi horror film that actually puts the multiverse concept to good use.
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Jack Black is one of the most recognizable comedy faces in Hollywood, but what about his lesser-known roles? Here are five hidden gems from his filmography.
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Were you worried The Substance was a fluke? Never fear, we now have a worthy horror movie successor in the form of The Ugly Stepsister.
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Television
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The White Lotus composer Cristóbal Tapia de Veer is checking out after three seasons. Here's what led to his departure ahead of season 4.
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Watch out for Mangle because the first look trailer for the highly anticipated horror sequel, Five Nights at Freddy's 2, is finally here!
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Fantasy Movies
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The latest episode of Yellowjackets season 3 further complicates things and reveals that cannibalism isn't the only secret the characters are hiding from.
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It's no surprise Anora director Sean Baker thanked sex workers in his Oscar acceptance speech. After all, he owes his career to stories involving sex work.
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