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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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.
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You've probably already seen Jaws or I Know What You Did the Last Summer, but here are some of the best lesser-known summer horror flicks.
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Chris Stuckmann's Shelby Oaks is the most successful horror movie in Kickstarter history. And he did it all from his family's home in Ohio.
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Is the urban legend about Twister playing in a drive-in theater when it was hit by a real tornado true? Sort of.
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Daemon Targaryen's intrusive thoughts in House of the Dragon lead to Game of Thrones' weirdest sex scene yet - and that's saying something.
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Euphoria season 3 is, at long last, gearing up to begin production (though it better include a time jump).
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Here's how The Boys showrunner reacted when Antony Starr unexpectedly started laughing maniacally during a Homelander scene in the fourth episode of season 4.
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Shelley Duvall, the the generational talent of Robert Altman's filmography and star of The Shining has died. She was 75.
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Netflix's docuseries The Man With 1,000 Kids shines a light on just how wildly unethical the donor conception industry can be.
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Ryan Butcher on The Boys has actually been played by three actors, including twin brothers Cameron and Nicholas Crovetti.
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Blumhouse's horror film AfrAId looks like a scarier version of the '90s Disney Channel Original Movie Smart House.
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MaXXXine highlights the similarities between horror and adult films, from the physical demands they put on actors to the social stigmas around them.
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Did you notice that the actor who played Ryan Butcher on The Boys was recast between seasons 1 and 2? Here's why that recasting needed to happen.
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Beloved legendary comedian, actor, musician, and painter Martin Mull has passed away. The singular talent was 80.
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A character from A Quiet Place Part II shows up in the new prequel A Quiet Place: Day One.
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Oscar winner Lupita Nyong'o stars in A Quiet Place: Day One, but director Michael Saronski's set was dictated by her cat co-star.
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MaXXXine is an erotic cataclysm of gnarly kills, featuring another powerhouse performance from Mia Goth. Here's our review.
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MaXXXine concludes Ti West's horror trilogy, building on the events of X and Pearl. Here's what you need to remember for the film.
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House of the Dragon season 2, episode 2 has Aegon making terrible decisions that will have disastrous results for him going forward.
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Hundreds of actors have played Sherlock Holmes over the years, but here are the 10 best actors ranked - from Basil Rathbone to Benedict Cumberbatch.
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Homer Simpson has frequently been a terrible husband to Marge on The Simpsons. But in a 2018 book, actress Julie Kavner explained why Marge has stayed with him.
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When Donald Sutherland was cast in The Hunger Games, he wrote a letter talking about the strengths of his character, Corolanius Snow. Here are some excerpts.
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The M3GAN universe is expanding with SOULM8TE, a 1990s-style erotic horror-thriller from Blumhouse and James Wan's Atomic Monster.
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House of the Dragon season 2 has a new opening credits sequence, and showrunner Ryan Condal explains why they made such a big change.