FILM The Bodyguard – 7 PM, October 4: Iconic diva Whitney Houston delivers an electric performance in this glamorous and show-stopping romance. Kevin Costner plays former Secret Service agent who grudgingly takes an assignment to protect a pop idol who has been...
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...
Talking to younger folks should make me feel old, but it just makes me feel wiser and more experienced. By default, older people have more life experience than younger folks and therefore makes us lightyears better. When I was talking to a certain a younger film...
I recently re-read Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood and realized: “OMG. This is basically procedural… a true crime podcast, even.” In Cold Blood shook the literary world. Capote brought literary nonfiction to the limelight and put respect on...
SPOILER ALERT: This article includes details about The Odyssey. There is a specific moment in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey that made me realize that the film’s hero, Odysseus, is an asshole. When Odysseus (Matt Damon) and his homies are escaping the lair of Mr....
SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details about Michael. Michael plays out as if it were a film adaptation of Michael Jackson’s Wikipedia page. Although the film has good intentions (or does it?), the execution falls obnoxiously short, making the entire film...
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HERE LIES LOVE is living proof that Filipino performers will forever be a personification of the triple threat, making this production of Here Lies Love a well-oiled musical machine of Filipino history — a Filipino history that can be difficult to watch.
The almighty algorithm put this video of legends Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, and Linda Ronstadt singing Neil Young’s “After the Gold Rush” on The Late Show with David Letterman on March 24, 1999: It’s one of Young’s best songs...
