Growing up, I dreamed of living in New York.
Continue reading “ Broad City Understands the Disastrous Joy of Living in New York City”Ted Lasso Knows the Difference Between Being a “Nice Guy” and a Kind Guy
Let me preface this essay with a quick overview of the 2011 film Our Idiot Brother.
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In Karen Maine’s Yes, God, Yes (2019), the protagonist, Alice (Natalia Dyer), receives a searing indictment from her best friend: “I am sick of being best friends with a pervy psycho.”
Continue reading “ Yes, God, Yes Is a Bizarre Fever Dream for Those Of Us Who Went to Catholic School”A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night Made Me Wish I Could Walk Home Alone at Night
Directed by Ana Lily Amirpour, the 2014 film A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night first premiered at Sundance and was marketed as the “first Iranian vampire Western.”
Continue reading “ A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night Made Me Wish I Could Walk Home Alone at Night”Bridgerton Is Like the Time My Friend Promised Me I Would Have Fun at a Frat Party and Then I Didn’t
In first grade, I read C.S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. It boggled my mind. I loved that book for years. One side effect of the story included my enduring curiosity and passion for Turkish Delight.
Continue reading “ Bridgerton Is Like the Time My Friend Promised Me I Would Have Fun at a Frat Party and Then I Didn’t”Costa-Gavras’s Missing Confronts the Cruel Nature of the American Government
On September 11, 1973, General Augusto Pinochet launched a violent coup d’état in Chile. The military junta terminated a three-year period of democratic socialism and introduced a dictatorship that lasted sixteen years.
Continue reading “Costa-Gavras’s Missing Confronts the Cruel Nature of the American Government”Miranda July’s Kajillionaire Is a Love Song for Weirdos Like You and Me
In Kajillionaire (2020), a family of petty con artists wriggle through life with simple scams, swiping mail from PO boxes at the post office or trying to collect reward money for returning a lost watch.
Continue reading “Miranda July’s Kajillionaire Is a Love Song for Weirdos Like You and Me”Nomadland Is a Conversation With The Grief We Carry
In Joan Didion’s Blue Nights, she describes the moment between twilight and night, the in-between of a long summer day when the air turns blue.
Continue reading “ Nomadland Is a Conversation With The Grief We Carry”Jane the Virgin Has a Dumb Title But I Love It Anyway
Loosely adapted from a Venezuelan telenovela called Juana la Virgen, the show follows 23-year-old Jane Villanueva as she confronts a jarring, life-altering situation: she has been accidentally artificially inseminated and, although a virgin, finds herself pregnant. Gasp.
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March 2021: The Art of Looking At the Stars
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