I want to be excited about the film adaptation of Kevin Kwan’s book, Crazy Rich Asians. I want to see this as a victory for Asian Americans in Hollywood films, Asians in leading roles, and...
This past Sunday, the 89th Academy Awards were finally coming to an end as Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway took the stage to present Best Picture. It had been till that point one of the more...
Strand of Oaks lead singer-songwriter Tim Showalter has made a fine career out of penning songs about topics that most other singer-songwriters—most other musicians—would not dare address. He...
In a year that saw the death of so many music stars, there was still something particularly painful about George Michael's death. This may be highly subjective but I think that for those of us in...
2016 has been the year that saw Neo-Liberalism finally implode like a dying star. Its death throes vomited forth a Donald Trump presidency and the bitter divisions of Brexit, post truth politics and...
2016 has been a shitty year for a lot of people. From Donald Trump getting elected as the new U.S. President to the loss of several musical legends, many of us have been eagerly anticipating the end...
The Star Destroyer is poised over the holy city of Jedha like a dagger through the heart of the Force. The Empire needs Kyber crystals to power the newly constructed Death Star to, “Commence...
The phrase “cool” and the idea of “coolness” may seem very 20th century to many people—those in my (millennial) generation included—but the expectation that people in certain age groups,...
If you keep up with celebrity gossip or entertainment news, you’ve seen her: the “promising,” talented ingénue who just can’t stay away from drugs or alcohol, who “parties too much,”...
Zombies are the allegorical gift to global cinema that keeps on giving. They are in perpetual motion, always shambling or racing forward, the unread children of progress heralding the new world order...
