NYAFF 2018: On Happiness Road and the Cost of Cultural Fluidity

[Warning: Spoilers Ahead] When Lin Shu-Chi returns to her childhood home in Taiwan, she finds everything changed. The fetid, canal running through her neighborhood is now a tidy town park and the buildings leveled by the 1999 Jiji earthquake have…

“Pose” Music Breakdown: Episode Five, “Mother’s Day”

Ryan Murphy’s new FX endeavor, Pose, is set in the ball culture world of New York City, 1987. The show is visually stunning, the costumes and sets are gorgeous, and naturally—necessarily—the music is fantastic. The music is such a large…

Concert Review: Paramore/Foster the People – Columbia, MD, 6/23/18

When I walked into Merriweather Post Pavilion to see Soccer Mommy, Foster the People, and Paramore, the first thing I noticed was how colorful everyone looked. Many were wearing clothing with bright hues and patterns; several people also had glitter…

Splatoon 2: Octo Expansion DLC Review (Or, A Lesson in Futility)

[Editor’s note: Miles is a contributor whose humor I cherish dearly . That being said, he submitted a review of a game rated  E 10+  by the ESRB with more profanity in its first draft of any writing I ever edited…

The Handmaid’s Tale 2×11 Review: Moss astounds in repetitive yet affecting “Holly”

The best thing about The Handmaid’s Tale episode “Holly” is Elisabeth Moss. It’s powerful stuff, but it’s ultimately filler. Moss is the one whose skill and fearlessness makes “Holly” rise above its limitations. Again. In the episode, June laments that…

Movie Review: ‘Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom’ leaves little to the imagination

Jurassic Park broke new ground by shifting the limits of possibility in the world of cinema, but it also established a formula that has remained virtually untouched since 1993, a formula embraced wholeheartedly by moviegoers who made Jurassic World the…

E3 2018: Kingdom Hearts III First Look

Nothing is worth a two-hour wait, but to finally get my hands on the elusive Kingdom Hearts III at the Square Enix booth for E3 2018 was a delightful surprise. That being said, I had plenty of opportunity in said…