February 29, 2020
I always grimace at the phrase “coming-of-age.” In my mind, the words are subtly tainted by their overuse. Yet I cannot think of any other words that are more befitting of The Wolves, a play that so painfully and accurately articulates the story of a girls’ indo...
February 29, 2020
I unironically enjoyed the Cats movie. Now before my professional, academic, and social futures are irreversibly compromised by this possibly disastrous public admission, I shall add a flashing neon caveat. By no means was 2019’s Cats (year specified b...
February 29, 2020
The Oscar-nominated feature 1917 is an undoubtedly impressive film on a technical level. Much of the con- versation surrounding the film—deservedly so—pertains to it being apparently shot in one continuous take. The movie follows two British soldiers during Worl...
February 29, 2020
In recent years, every posthumous album from a recently passed artist seems to be a cash grab by their label. The releases of posthumous albums from the labels of artists such as XXXTentacion and Lil Peep were unceremoniously cobbled together from leftover demos...
January 17, 2020
Your Lie in April
It appears that anime still largely has a bad reputation. Far too many reduce the media to a subfield associated with...well, let's just say tentacles. Others claim that it is merely escapism, reflective of a degenerate 21st century society. St...
January 17, 2020
Under the name Field Medic, lo-fi folk singer Kevin Patrick released the album Songs from the Sunroom in 2017. A compilation of songs that he had recorded over the previous two years, the album gains an unrivaled intimacy from its namesake: a small San Francisco...
January 17, 2020
The Marriage Plot, published in 2011, is the most recent novel by the legendary Jeffrey Eugenides. After a nine-year break, the book marks a refreshing shift from Eugenides’ earlier work, which includes The Virgin Suicides and the Pulitzer prize winning Middlese...
December 7, 2019
Caroline Polachek
Pang. The title of Caroline Polachek’s debut album is a curious piece of language. Modulating between material and nonmaterial worlds, a “pang” is a spasmic, intense feeling. It is the seizing of the chest from the sudden swell of emotion, be i...
December 7, 2019
The Kim family in Parasite.
The word “masterpiece” is used far too often in film criticism. Few films actually stand at the top of an auteur’s filmography as his/her crowning achievement. Even fewer films are made by true masters of cinema. For Korean writer-dire...
December 7, 2019
Justin Vernon and Bruce Hornsby of Bon Iver
How does an artist command a room? Sure, he could simply ask his audience for their attention; but true command demands more than that. It requires a certain power to turn your back to the audience, while holding t...