In late 2016, my phone alerted me to a new message. It was from my cousin Liz, and it was just a photo of her and her boyfriend...and her left hand. "We're engaged!" A little over a year later, their family and friends gathered at a beautiful hotel/resort in the suburbs to celebrate their ...
Archives for January 2018
Review: The Breadwinner
This review originally appeared on Third Coast Review. Every year, after the Oscar nominations are announced, the dust settles and a few titles rise to the top as head-scratchers. How the heck did that get nominated for an Academy Award? There's one such movie in this year's Best Animated Feature ...
And the Oscar Goes to…
...someone on this list. That's right, it's Oscar Season! Arguably entirely meaningless in the face of a crumbling democracy, a deteriorating planet and so much else, I'm nevertheless going to put far too much thought into the nominations announced on Tuesday morning and the meaning behind ...
Review: Bombshell—The Hedy Lamarr Story
This is a repost of a review that also appears at Third Coast Review. Even if you're not a fan of classic Hollywood cinema (and why the heck aren't you?), you know the name Hedy Lamarr. According to IMDb, Lamarr has only 35 film credits, but among them are the likes of Boom Town (alongside ...
2017 [in films]
Sneaking this in both under the wire (I will get this post up on January 1!) and on a blog I bet you've forgotten about by now. Resolution in 2018: write, write, write. This year marked a whole bunch of change for me, chief among them my leap into self-employment. It's been a scary and ...