Disappointing start to the year with We Bury the Dead and No Other Choice.
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Windows and Mirrors: Spike Lee’s Highest 2 Lowest (2025) vs. Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low (1963)
In Highest 2 Lowest, Spike Lee successfully lands an ambitious plane with a masterful reimagining of Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low. A stacked cast, fresh writing and an action-packed twist on the second act artfully modernise a classic film.
Skip It, Screen It or Stream It • July 2025
Chainsaw, contortive pinwheeling and shrieking aside, Together is actually the most romantic film of the year.
A Dazzling Dance with the Devil: The Spoiler-FULL Sinners Review 🌕
*Hi. Hey. Hello. Please heed the title: this essay is FULL of spoilers for Sinners (Warner Bros. Pictures, 2025). If you would rather read my spoiler-lite review, check it out here! Sinners invites us to a sacred space. Nestled deep in the Jim Crow-era Mississippi Delta at the Smokestack Twins’ Club Juke, Sinners shows us …
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So Nice, I Had to Do It Twice: A Sinners Spoiler-lite review! 🩸
It all comes full circle in Ryan Coogler’s Resurrection Weekend masterpiece, Sinners (Warner Bros. Pictures, 2025). Identical twins, in media res narrative, interconnected suffering, life, death and rebirth. Despite the social media Christian uproar about a horror film premiering the same weekend as Easter, I’d argue that Sinners is exactly the reason for the season. …
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Are you what you eat? Reflections on Consuming #DeadDoves After 10+ Years in Fandom
When I first started reading fanfiction 12 years ago, fanfiction was still very uncool. I read fanfiction only under the cover of darkness or in public with a carefully dimmed screen. I shared my hobby only with my closest friends and only in hushed whispers. The combination of secretive embarrassment and youthful slyness was part …
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3×3 Horror Reviews from a Busy 3-Day Weekend
Longlegs, Lovely, Dark, and Deep, and Arcadian. Much to my surprise, we are in fact, already in mid-July which means my long ago pre-planned long weekend has come and (mostly) gone. I took off Friday to sleep in after attending night 1 of Lucky Daye’s Algorithm tour, and surprise surprise: ended up at the movies. …
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Think Different, Think Bigger
A Review of Lucky Daye's Algorithm Tour Night 1 “Lucky is in his rock era,” was my mother’s first comment as we listened to Algorithm together for the first time. I couldn’t agree more: Lucky Daye’s latest project is a phenomenal departure from his traditional sound; it’s a transcendent blend of rock guitar with the …
You know I did it all for love. 100 thoughts for 100 concerts and counting!
This weekend I saw Bilal at Blue Note Napa. It was masterful and mellow evening, and also, my 100th concert.
Knowledge Is (and Always Will Be) Power!
Honoring 50 years of Schoolhouse Rock!
Kyra's Immortal Longings: Life As It Comes 