On December 4th DIASPORA launched its fundraising campaign as it enters its nonprofit era! The cocktails and lumpia flowed at Sampa as I made the big announcement that DIASPORA is pivoting and expanding to become a media organization. In addition to launching a...
This post was originally posted on the DIASPORA newsletter on December 2, 2025. Subscribe here! As the year comes to a close, I am trying to cram as many FYC films into my eyeballs as possible before voting deadlines for the various critics organizations of which...
This article was originally published via the DIASPORA Substack newsletter on November 21. SUBSCRIBE HERE! Wicked: For Good is out in theaters and my immediate thoughts: Dorothy isn’t the heroine we thought her to be. Instead, she’s an annoying little interloper....
DIE MY LOVE In Die My Love, Katniss Everdeen goes up against her biggest adversary yet: postpartum depression and Edward Cullen as a husband who just doesn’t get it. Lynne Ramsay’s latest can be seen as a dark fever dream of a comedy or just a straight-up...
This article was originally published on the DIASPORA Newsletter on August 21, 2025. Read and subscribe here! In the first episode of Drag Race: Slaysian Royale, Madame Yoko, a queen from Drag Belgique Season 2 (that’s Belgium to us Americans), and Kitty Space, a...
Picture it: New York City. December 4, 2024. It was a chilly night. I just finished interviewing the delightfully charming Helen J. Shen hours before she was to take the stage as Claire, a free-spirited HelperBot in the musical Maybe Happy Ending. I was sitting in...
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This article was originally published via the DIASPORA NEWSLETTER on April 22, 2025. SPOILER ALERT: This article contains specific details about Sinners. I have told the following story a million times. Consider this a million and one. In 2013, months before I...
This article was originally posted via the DIASPORA NEWSLETTER on April 7, 2025. Subscribe here to receive articles, videos, podcasts and more before everyone else! Spending four days in Las Vegas is a journey. Attending CinemaCon while in Las Vegas is an...
