SPOILER ALERT: This article includes specific details about the film Digger. When we first see Tom Cruise as Digger Rockwell in his slovenly glory, he is in his bed next to a zombie cat that is lying in its own puddle of piss. The thing is, this cat, along with the...
SPOILER ALERT: This article includes specific details about revival of A Different World. The other day I made it my responsibility to teach a young Gen Z’er about the original A Different World and how it was a spin-off of The Cosby Show. I went into a full-on...
If it’s Filipino, it’s in Forgotten Island. An unspeakable joy radiated from the audience at the screening I attended at the Pacific Design Center whenever any Filipino totem, gesture, or figure graced the screen. The audience was mostly, if not all, Filipino....
A moral audit (of sorts): How AAPI advocacy organizations use resources, money, and power to give back to the communities they claim to serve. Around 2018, when I was an editor at Deadline Hollywood, I had a lunch meeting at what was then known as the H Club in...
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A moral audit (of sorts): How AAPI advocacy organizations use resources, money, and power to give back to the communities they claim to serve. During a post-movie dinner with a group of fellow Filipinos, the conversation turned to a film little known beyond the...
SPOILER ALERT: This article includes details about It Ends, Passenger, and Camp Rock 3. It Ends… or does it? Following the success of Backrooms and Obsession, director Alex Ullom is the latest to jump on the horror auteur train with It Ends. It Ends premiered at...
SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details about Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma When I attended Texas A&M University, and at the time, it was over 80% white. I was constantly in search of classes that had flavor and color… literally. Considering the...
SPOILER ALERT: This article contains very specific details about Spider-Man: Brand New Day. f the Spider-Man franchise didn’t star Tom Holland and Zendaya, I wouldn’t care as much. Besides the two global superstars proving their names can put butts in movie theater...
