This year, Aziz Ansari released the second season of his semi-autobiographical Netflix series, Master of None, alongside co-creator Alan Yang. I say semi-autobi...
In the 1975 film Picnic at Hanging Rock, three private school girls and their teacher disappear during a class trip to the titular rock formation. The rest of...
From my very first viewing of Wong Kar-wai’s masterful In the Mood for Love (2000) in the second week of my Introduction to Cinema Studies class in 2013, it has...
Forever 21, the California-based retailer, recently started selling items that bring us back to a time before social media; a time when over-the-knee socks, fuz...
Since the 1920s, the realms of film and politics have shared an intimate relationship. It is not uncommon for film stars to have their careers closely intertwin...
Damsels in distress. Princesses to impress. These are some of the typical roles that female characters embody when there is danger on the horizon.
The hit sh...
20th Century Women, director Mike Mills’s follow up and counterpart to his 2010 film Beginners, is the story of three women, two men, and their non-normative fa...
As a narrative device across genres, pregnancy is either depicted as a joyful progression in one’s life, or a roadblock that interferes with a) one’s plans for ...
Ghost World’s opening credits are scored by a 1965 Indian rock and roll song, “Jaan Pehechan Ho”. It's an electric song I showed to my friends in high school, t...
I’ll never forget the first time I watched Les Misérables (2012) as an adult who could fully (or at least, almost fully) appreciate the spiritual journey that J...