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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Drama Movies
By BJ Colangelo
Hamnet star Jessie Buckley is far from the first performer to win an Oscar for their acting who kicked their career off with a reality TV stint.
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KPop Demon Hunters has completed an astounding cinematic Cinderella story, going from cast-off to multi-Oscar winner.
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Horror Movies
By BJ Colangelo
Undertone is one of 2026's most unique and terrifying horror movies, but you'll want to see it in a theater to get the full experience.
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Fantasy Movies
By BJ Colangelo
During a panel at the South by Southwest Film Festival, Steven Spielberg picked a forgotten fantasy movie as his most underrated. Have you seen it?
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Movie Reviews
By BJ Colangelo
Ready or Not 2: Here I Come proves to be just as explosively fun as its predecessor, even if it's essentially 'the same, but more.' Here's our review.
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Comedy Shows
By BJ Colangelo
The Brady Bunch first premiered almost 60 years ago, and yet, revisiting the entire series reveals that it actually holds up surprisingly well.
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Horror Movies
By BJ Colangelo
Maggie Gyllenhaal's big swing directorial effort The Bride! was never going to be a box office success. It's something much more valuable.
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Horror Movies
By BJ Colangelo
Barbie and The Bride are equally misunderstood pop culture figures. It shouldn't surprise anyone that their films serve as companion pieces to each other.
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Movie News
By BJ Colangelo
Leave it to a living legend like Bruce Campbell to tell the world that he has been diagnosed with cancer in a way that is so 'Bruce Campbell.'
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Movie Reviews
By BJ Colangelo
Audacious, heartfelt, and uproariously funny, Hoppers has all the makings of an instant classic for Pixar. Here's our review.
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Interviews
By BJ Colangelo
Pillion, A24's dom/sub relationship drama, features many intimate acts, but star Harry Melling and director Harry Lighton explain one you don't see on screen.
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The writer/directors of the sci-fi indie film Redux Redux tell us how Marvel Studios inadvertently helped give them an assist with their screenplay.
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Romance Movies
By BJ Colangelo
Out of the many, many Wuthering Heights adaptations made over the years, it's a music video that manages to truly match Emily Brontë's Gothic vibes.
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Romance Movies
By BJ Colangelo
Emily Brontë's classic novel Wuthering Heights gets reimagined yet again with Emerald Fennell's 2026 adaptation, and it makes some major changes to the story.
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Movie Reviews
By BJ Colangelo
Emerald Fennell's adaptation (and we use that term very loosely) of Wuthering Heights is both breathtaking and perplexing. Here’s our review.
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Drama Movies
By BJ Colangelo
Pillion is charming, romantic, and emotionally restrained, rejecting moral panic and the shallow belief that explicitness is the only route to honesty.
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Horror Movies
By BJ Colangelo
We're barely into 2026, but the horror genre has already gifted us with Whistle, which features an early contender for the best horror movie death of the year.
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Drama Shows
By BJ Colangelo
Heated Rivalry co-star and trans filmmaker/retired hockey player Harrison Browne has a queer hockey short movie that's begging for a feature-length adaptation.
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Horror Movies
By BJ Colangelo
2025 was a banner year for horror movies, and many recent entries in the genre have prioritized internal struggles. Now, 2026 is taking things somewhere else.
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Animation Movies
By BJ Colangelo
We visited Pixar and learned about how Hoppers was originally supposed to center on a different animal, how beavers became the focus, and more.
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Superhero Shows
By BJ Colangelo
Marvel's Hollywood-set new series Wonder Man drops a perfect reference to the only X-rated movie ever to win Best Picture at the Oscars.
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TV Reviews
By BJ Colangelo
Wonder Man is a grounded, mature character study that pulls back the curtain on the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Here's our review.
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Horror Movies
By BJ Colangelo
The gruesome, grotesque, underrated 2025 horror movie The Ugly Stepsister has special effects makeup that's sometimes it's invisible.
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Very Important People host Vic Michaelis is a comedy superstar in the making, and has a new chance to shine in upcoming spy thriller series Ponies.
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Drama Shows
By BJ Colangelo
Heated Rivalry season 1 may have come to an end, but the Original Series Soundtrack by Peter Peter is here to keep the party going.
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Comedy Shows
By BJ Colangelo
Jacob Tierney, the show creator, writer, and director behind the sensational Heated Rivalry, helmed an underrated coming-of-age comedy from 2009.
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Drama Shows
By BJ Colangelo
Heated Rivalry season 2 may be a ways off, but there's no shortage of other series about queer relationships and forbidden attraction to check out until then.
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