Chingy Nea, MEL Magazine

Chingy Nea

MEL Magazine

Los Angeles, CA, United States

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Past:
  • MEL Magazine
  • Kotaku

Past articles by Chingy:

What Lesbian Would Give Up Beautiful Women for Ben Affleck’s Weird Goatee?

The ultimate misguided straight-male fantasy, ‘Chasing Amy’ completely disrespects Amy’s sexuality and allows its entitled, insecure protagonist to get the exact thing he doesn’t deserve → Read More

How Gumby’s Influence Stretches Through Time

Though he no longer has his own TV show, the lively, green clay lad lives on in the hearts and memes of the extremely online → Read More

Screw Dave Ramsey, I Had My Girlfriend Findom Me for a Month

After my pro-domme girlfriend found my $500 stash of Criterion Collection Blu-rays, she took literal control of every penny I own → Read More

In ‘Cape Fear,’ Robert De Niro Wants to Kill Your Family

Martin Scorsese updates the 1962 thriller into a genuine horror movie about a sexual predator tormenting his former lawyer → Read More

‘Raw’ Is a Gutturally Grotesque Companion Piece to ‘Titane’

In the wake of Julia Ducournau’s Cannes-winning film about banging a car, now is a perfect time to revisit her debut about a vegetarian turned cannibal → Read More

It’s Kill or Be Killed in the Vampire-Western ‘Near Dark’

Kathryn Bigelow’s genre-bending horror flick asks the question: What if you’re fated to kill, but you’d never hurt a fly? → Read More

In Defense of Gus Van Sant’s Totally Derided ‘Psycho’ Remake

The Vince Vaughn-led remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic is a lot better if you view it as more of an experiment than an actual commercial product → Read More

In ‘House,’ Childhood Fears Come to Life in Surreal Splendor

Hoping to source inspiration outside his own unease, director Nobuhiko Obayashi sought the input of someone close to him: his own preteen daughter → Read More

‘Dorohedoro’ is a Psychedelic Sitcom Where Everyone is a Murderer

This trippy dystopian anime full of gore and giggles makes for a perfect spooky season binge → Read More

Teenage Hormones Turn Feral in ‘Ginger Snaps’

In this feminist horror film, a werewolf bite leads to a savage metamorphosis that reveals the workings of sex, puberty and sisterhood → Read More

‘Blade II’ Made Vampires Scary Again

With the second ‘Blade’ film, Guillermo Del Toro turned a superhero movie into a horror film about a vampire pandemic → Read More

‘Branded to Kill’ Is About Going Crazy Over Goth Girls

Seijun Suzuki’s movies ‘make no money and make no sense,’ but that doesn’t make this surreal yakuza movies any less of a masterpiece of style → Read More

In ‘The Lure,’ Horny Cannibal Mermaids Have a Lot to Say About Lust

A terrifying and carnal metaphor for the complexities of human desire, this loosely based adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s ‘The Little Mermaid’ dives deep → Read More

In ‘Party Monster,’ the Party Ends, but the Legacy Lives On

The queer cult classic has only grown in significance since its 2003 release → Read More

‘Cure’ is a Case Study in the Haunting Monotony of Everyday Life

There’s nothing more unsettling than a place where everything seems fine → Read More

‘The Love Witch’ Is Retro Sex Magic for Murderous Romantics

Sometimes, you just want to sit back, relax and watch an unusually beautiful, vintage-obsessed lady end the lives of some silly dudes → Read More

The Ill-Fated ‘Taxi Driver’ Video Game That Never Was

At the height of the ‘Grand Theft Auto’ craze, someone thought it was a great idea to turn the Scorsese classic into a first-person shooter. They couldn’t have been more wrong → Read More

Pinocchio is the Twink Princess Disney Forgot

Disney loves to make a big show of their new ‘LGBT characters,’ but it seems they forgot their skinny, androgynous and largely hair-free wooden boi from the 1940s → Read More

The Dizzying Science of Why Whippits Make Your Voice Sound Weird

Sucking down these dizzying inhalants do more than just make you giddy, they also make you sound like a nightmare clown → Read More

The Lovely Benefits of Remaining Friends With Your Ex

Staying friends with an ex isn’t for everyone, but if done right, it can give you an unrivaled friendship with someone who knows you better than anyone else → Read More