Film

Here’s a painfully obvious statement: It’s so much easier for men to make it as filmmaker in Hollywood than women. Then once a woman director gets huge and critically acclaimed, it’s almost like Hollywood only has the bandwidth for one or two at a time. The studios are at a point right now where they’re […]

Everyone has different shows and movies that give them comfort when they’re sick, sad or some other combination of unpleasantness. I know people who have watched all nine seasons of “The Office” multiple times that treat the show like a cozy blanket on a cold night, although for my money “Parks and Recreation” is a […]

Here’s something I don’t even consider the tiniest of hot takes: I don’t care about the Oscars. I mean, OK, I guess I sort of do. I enjoy guessing who’s going to win and getting all butt hurt about what got snubbed, but ultimately the Oscars only matter in one very specific way: The artists […]

It’s been a cliché for a long time that we’re always changing as we age, but are the more important changes physical or psychological? Sure, physically, our bodies start weak, grow stronger and then spend decades discovering new aches and maladies, but psychologically is where things get really interesting. If you feel like following me […]

I‘m not one for New Year’s resolutions. In December I tend to hyperfocus on the things that I could improve in my future like financial security, achieving emotional availability in relationships and maybe just being less of an awkward dork. Then by mid-January, when I’m still a broke dork with unclimbable emotional walls, I spiral […]

During the quarantine period of COVID I got pretty scared. I’ll always remember lying in bed at night and feeling a tickle in the back of my throat, making me positive that I was going to start struggling to breathe by the morning. Every day it was some new aspect of fear that would creep […]

Historically, January is widely considered to be the dumping ground for theatrical movies studios don’t have any faith in. They slide them into the multiplex after the prestige movies of December, but before Oscar nominees start getting re-released in theaters leading up to the big show. I’ve been taking the doldrums of Theatrical January for […]