The greatest event to grace us in this wretched November month, National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo to those of us in the biz), is hitting the home stretch… and if you’re participating this...
Writer, poet, performer, and author Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha’s published work—including the memoir Dirty River and poetry collections Bodymap, Love Cake, and Consensual Genocide—has...
Watching The Blessing, Hunter Robert Baker and Jordan Fein’s exquisite portrait of one family on the Navajo reservation in Arizona, during the Santa Fe Independent Film Festival this month marked...
First, a confession: I am not totally sure how to start this review. On its surface, the job of a book reviewer is simple: describe the book, perhaps situate it in some sort of context (genre,...
Perhaps the biggest surprise of this year’s Open City Documentary Festival – a five-day, under-the-radar gem situated in the heart of London, and dedicated to championing nonfiction work as an...
Television standby and Lifetime Channel stalwart Rob Lowe adds a director credit to his expansive resume – and surprise, it’s a remake of The Bad Seed! That sounds like a bit of a random choice,...
When you visit the Museum of Death in Hollywood, California, the first graphic thing you will see is a photo—undated, but very 1970s-looking--of a motorcycle rider who has been in an unfortunate...
2013 was an interesting year in film. The box office was dominated by big budget epics like The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, the ongoing war between Marvel and DC...
Since its big screen debut, Sorry to Bother You has had a lot of labels thrown at it. Revolutionary. Science fiction. Dystopian. I’ve even seen horror lobbed around a couple of times. And of...
Welcome to LGBTQ+ Pride Month, the month of “hey, have you seen…?” and “did you ever read…?” Yes, we’ve all seen And the Band Played On and read The Celluloid Closet. My beef with a lot...
