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
Continue reading “Letter to the Reader – March”An Ode to Dr. Cristina Yang, The Patron Saint of Boss-Ass Bitches
Grey’s Anatomy, the medical show that produces wildly unpredictable plotlines at breakneck speed, has endured for almost 20 years. It wouldn’t have lasted the first decade without the ambitious Dr. Cristina Yang, played flawlessly by Sandra Oh.
Continue reading “An Ode to Dr. Cristina Yang, The Patron Saint of Boss-Ass Bitches”New Girl Is My Comfort Show Except Sometimes I Hate It
To offer the understatement of the century: life has been difficult.
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