In the weeks, days, hours, minutes leading up to Beyoncé's September 23 concert in Houston, Texas, I made sure everyone knew I was going. I wore it like a badge of honor that said, "You can't fuck with me because I am going to the hometown stop of the RENAISSANCE...
When it was announced that Here Lies Love was making its Broadway debut, I went from celebratory to awkward to questioning to "Now wait a goddamn minute here..." all within 60 seconds. Part of me wanted to go to the premiere of Here Lies Love in New York to...
After watching Oppenheimer, I asked some friends, "Did we need that movie?" and it was a resounding "No" from the chorus. I agreed. I appreciate what Christopher Nolan's film did as a completed piece of cinematic work. It was remarkable to tell such a dense story...
Film festivals are fun. They are also a lot of work and wildly exhausting (listen to the episode of Problematic Fave with Valerie Complex to hear us talk all about film festival life). Surprisingly, I have never been to the Tribeca Film Festival. It was my first...
Earlier this year in April, I was attending CinemaCon. It was my first time at the trade show and event for the world of theater owners. It was a fascinating experience -- mainly because I spent almost a week in Las Vegas and that is five days too many. During the...
I've been telling people that I am in my "Tennessee Williams Era" of my life. I bring attention to it because I am currently reading the legendary playwright's biography, Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh by John Lahr -- which means I am officially an...
Out of the sea, wish I could beeeeEEEeeeeEEeee... part of that world. That riff. Disney dropped the first teaser trailer for the live-action version of The Little Mermaid on September 2022 and it took us to the depths of the oceans on the waves of Alan Menken's...
SPOILER ALERT: There are specific details about the Netflix series Beef in this article. In case you haven't heard, there's this show that everyone has been gushing about since it dropped on Netflix April 6. Lee Sung Jin's destined-to-be-an-Emmys-contender dark...
It's been over two weeks since Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert's multiverse thirst trap fever dream of a sci-fi fantasy family drama Everything Everywhere All At Once won HUGE and made history at the 95th annual Academy Awards winning 7 out of the 11 Oscars it was...
