Writing and Criticism by K. Russek

You Know People Don’t Have to Say it, They Can Feel it: The Room as a Queer Text
Like many people who attended liberal arts school in the mid 2010s, Tommy Wiseau’s The Room (2003) is embarrassingly integral to the emotional arc of my life. In summer of 2013, accepted students day at my first college was marked by a new friend explaining the mythos of the film in detail, and showing me…
I Watched Onward (and I hate that I enjoyed myself)
Let the record show I’m a cynical person. Whether I choose to admit it to myself on any given day, I believe on a deep level that the earth is fucked and most people are cruel toward those they can’t see themselves in. I’m not the sort of person who glibly goes to see a…
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