FESTIVAL SPOTLIGHT – Karyn Kusama’s “Destroyer”
Representation in Hollywood is an ongoing discussion of great importance, with popular media functioning as contemporary culture’s mythology. Films serve as the window to our collective soul…
Editorials
The New Colossus
In the April 17, 2017, issue of The New Yorker, legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin wrote an editorial about the influence of Leonard Leo, the executive vice-president of the Federalist Society. Leo’s work serves as a pipeline for conservative law graduates aspiring to the bench—e.g. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch. Today…
Steve Rogers: America’s Underdog, and the Importance of Representation
In the context of #MeToo, there has been a slew of online editorials penned about…
Stanning Stan: A Case Study
In my review of I, TONYA, I singled out Sebastian Stan’s performance as the much-maligned…
The Millennial Falcon: What Wright Gets About Music that Chazelle Gets Wrong
In the climactic concert performance capping Damien Chazelle’s WHIPLASH in which Andrew Neiman (Miles Teller)…
GET OUT of my Country
Racism is so deeply embedded in this country not because of the racist right-wing radicals…
Stan Lee: A Marvelous Legacy
Since Shel Dorf and others founded the San Diego Comic Con in 1970, the popularity…
From the Editor: A Letter to Senator John Cornyn
Dear Senator Cornyn, Your recent comments trivializing the potential interference in our democratic process…