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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Even after years of playing Marvel's Thor, Chris Hemsworth found himself wearing a cape once more in Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga.
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The live-action adaptation of Masters of the Universe is saying farewell to Netflix and joining Amazon MGM for a summer 2026 theatrical release.
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Can Netflix's new Fear Street movie Prom Queen recreate the success of the Fear Street Trilogy?
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Still Working 9 to 5 premiered at South by Southwest back in 2022, and it's gotten great reviews, but it still doesn't have distribution. What's going on here?
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A shocking number of people who have played Matilda Wormwood in Matilda the Musical have gone on to star in horror movies.
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The new horror movie The Exorcism seems to be inspired by rumors that The Exorcist was cursed.
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Holly Chou and Gui Agustini, who voice Jubilee and Sunspot in X-Men '97, tell us about playing the youngest cast members and the catharsis of the show's anger.
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Some viewers seem to be missing the point of the new Netflix series Baby Reindeer.
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Here they are: the 10 best Patrick Swayze movies ranked. Where do classics like Road House, Ghost, and Dirty Dancing place? Find out!
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Richard Gadd's Baby Reindeer has been a huge deal ever since it arrived on Netflix, and it's easy to understand why when you realize that it actually happened.
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There's a big twist in Abigail, and the marketing did a good job of keeping it a secret.
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Let's sink our fangs into the ending of Abigail. Major spoilers for the new vampire movie follow.
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"La, la, la, laaaa, la. La, la, la, laaaa, la." Mondo has released two collectible figures in honor of the beloved MTV animated series Daria. Check them out!
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Bluey's big special, The Sign, may be the final episode of the beloved animated series. Here's what the episode was really saying to its audience.
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While making the superhero comedy Sky High, Kurt Russell received a rewritten script that could have seriously harmed the film's chances at becoming beloved.
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BookTok favorite turned movie The Tearsmith is topping the Netflix charts, but is this Italian language romance any good?
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Embrace your inner ogre with Lush's limited-edition Shrek collection featuring Get Outta My Swamp shower slime, Fiona shower gel, and much more.
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Deadpool. Wolverine. Always you wrestle inside me. We saw some Deadpool & Wolverine footage at CinemaCon 2024!
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Time to throw a pizza party because the highly-anticipated horror sequel to Five Nights at Freddy's is coming in 2025.
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We saw the first footage from the Antoine Fuqua-directed Michael Jackson biopic Michael at CinemaCon and it was unnervingly accurate in terms of its visuals.
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I Saw the TV Glow might be the most important movie you see all year. Here's our review.
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In a Violent Nature, a slasher movie told from the point of view of the slasher, is like if Gus Van Sant directed a Friday the 13th sequel.
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Abigail, the vampire ballerina movie from Scream directors Tyler Gillett and Matt Bettinelli-Olpin could be the best horror movie of 2024.
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Here are the only major actors still alive from the classic children's film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
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Rustic Films' Things Will Be Different is a perfect addition to their sci-fi universe. No wonder Marvel hired producers Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead.
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The First Omen brings a new round of cursed scares to theaters, and with it comes composer Mark Korven's haunting score, which is getting a vinyl soundtrack.
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The horror prequel The First Omen is technically a Disney movie, and that's pretty shocking.