Miranda Adama is a writer, variety streamer, and all-around creative who loves violence on screen and what it says about pop culture. She's the host of Be Seeing You: A John Wick Podcast and has been ...

In 2005, film critic Nathan Rabin assigned a definition to a type of character that seemed to be everywhere in early-aughts indie films — the Manic Pixie Dream Girl. This girl is unlike any other girl ...

It seems that women are finally breaking free from society’s archaic expectations for their relationships with men. As evident in the viral Vogue article by Chanté Joseph, women are leaving men in the ...

Critic Nathan Rabin first coined the term “manic pixie dream girl” to describe a young woman whose whimsy exists solely as a catalyst for change for the leading man. While he used it in reference to ...