I am Benjamin Crabtree, and I am a Feature Writer for Collider. I am also the creator of CrabtreeCinema.com and cohost of the upcoming Celluloid Noise Podcast. Beyond writing and talking about cinema, ...

Cult director John Waters has produced some of the most shocking and outrageous scenes in film history that have delighted fans for over 60 years of pure filth. He began his career with low-budget ...

When watching "Pink Flamingos" you can't escape one of the final scenes with protagonist Babs Johnson, played by queer icon Divine. "Kill everyone now," says Babs from behind a smoking gun after ...

Ursula, the treacherous sea witch who steals Ariel's voice in the 1989 animated classic The Little Mermaid and the new live-action reboot, is not a drag queen. At least according to official Disney ...

With its latest exhibit, “John Waters: Pope of Trash,” the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures has paradoxically found a way to revere the irreverent. The show, which opens to the public on Sunday and ...

Given the landfill of perversions that Pink Flamingos offers, the most shocking aspect of the five decades it has spent lurking in the subconscious and rhetorical basements of the United States is ...

Fifty years after the gloriously trashy release of Pink Flamingos, John Waters still can’t visit Hicksville, New York. The sleepy hamlet tucked away on Long Island is one of many bedroom communities ...

It’s one thing to release a film and get negative critiques, but what happened when John Waters released Pink Flamingos in 1972 was a very different story. The reviews weren’t just poor – they were ...