The K-Pop Bulletin: July 2018

South Korea has one of the fastest-growing and most sonically exciting Pop scenes in the world, so we have decided to bring you “The K-Pop Bulletin”, a column highlighting some of the hottest K-Pop singles of every month. Today, we…

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again Movie Review: A Superb Sun-Soaked, Sentimental Sequel

There are three things in this otherwise unknowable life of which I am certain. The first is that the Marvel Cinematic Universe would be infinitely more fun than it already is if studio brass would hand Taika Waititi the keys…

Generation Wealth Movie Review: Lauren Greenfield has Created a Culmination of Her Career Thus Far

Over the past couple of decades, photo-essayist Lauren Greenfield (kids + money, The Queen of Versailles) has sought out lives filled with glamor and extravagance, striving to capture how our perception of social standing through gluttonous excess is rapidly evolving,…

A World Without Rules: The Dark Knight 10 Years Later

Comic book movies were nothing new by the time that The Dark Knight came around in 2008. The subgenre had already established its place with the great successes of X-Men and Spider-Man, and the sequels to each found the full potential of their respective franchises.…

52FilmsbyWomen 2018: The 10 Best Films I’ve Seen This Year [Column]

At the start of 2018, I took the #52FilmsbyWomen pledge, vowing to watch one movie directed by a woman per week throughout 2018 — both female-directed flicks that have now become classics in the canon and amongst critics, and new…

NYAFF 2018: Dante Lam Mini-Retrospective

Despite having already premiered in New York earlier this year in a smattering of local cinemas, the screening of Dante Lam’s latest film, the Chinese mega-blockbuster Operation Red Sea, was one of the most hotly anticipated events of this year’s…

15 Thoughts I Had While Playing Fortnite for the First Time

It was early June of 2017 when I first learned of Epic Games’ Fortnite — back when the title was still roughly seven weeks out from launching in paid early access, when it was still just a co-op sandbox survival…