Contributions from Payton McCarty-Simas | Little White Lies

Contributor Payton McCarty-Simas

Payton McCarty-Simas is an author, programmer, and film critic based in New York City. Their writing has been featured in The Brooklyn Rail, Metrograph’s Journal, Rue Morgue, Film Daze, and others, and they’re the author of two books, One Step Short of Crazy: National Treasure and the Landscape of American Conspiracy Culture, and That Very Witch: Fear, Feminism, and the American Witch Film. 

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In Praise Of

“Life, Liberty, and All the Rest of It”: Reading The Godfather in To Die For

by Payton McCarty-Simas

Consider the parallels between Suzanne Maretto and Michael Corleone as Gus Van Sant’s sultry satire turns 30.

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