Book Review: ‘The Virgin Suicides’ by Jeffrey Eugenides
I picked up this book last month after having seen it recommended at the bookstore back home in the Bay, as the book is celebrating its 25th anniversary. Of course, […]
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Book Review: ‘Stay True’ by Hua Hsu
I picked up this book about two weeks ago when I saw it on display during a trip home to the Bay for Mother’s Day. It was showcased as one […]
‘RRR’ Review: An Indian cinematic spectacle makes for one of the best action and buddy dramas of our decade
RRR is one of the best movies I have seen in the past decade, hands down. Short for “Rise Roar Revolt” (and a play on the three leads’ names), the […]
‘The Iron Claw’ Review: An emotional tale of brothers and wrestling, helmed by Zac Efron’s powerful transformation
Minutes into The Iron Claw, I eagerly awaited to see what was to be Zac Efron’s transformation into a professional wrestling sensation. It’s the early 1980s in suburban Texas and […]
‘Flora and Son’ Review: Eve Hewson, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and John Carney Show us the Love and Joy Music Can Bring, Once Again
“This is a gift you can take to your grave, and you can use it however you want,” the distraught yet overly optimistic Jeff (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) says in his video […]
Mandy Moore and running into two fan girls like me at “The Talent Show with Sam Jones” at the Hotel Cafe
Sometimes, it’s those special kind of nights that make you grateful to hear about another’s personal, creative and very grounded journey of growing up that makes you reflect on your […]
‘The Last of Us’ HBO Series World Premiere: Here Are My Thoughts
It’s the start of a new year and the post-holiday slump is in full force (safe to say, most of us are still dragging our feet as we get back […]
‘Purple Hearts’ is a Movie about Love and Fear and It Got Me
Just like the rest of the world, Purple Hearts got me. And these are the moments that especially hit me hard in the heartstrings. A good love story makes us […]
‘Like a Rolling Stone’ documentary shows how Ben Fong-Torres was more than ‘Almost Famous’
That man is Ben Fong-Torres, and upon first look, seeing an Asian American kid writing bylines and headlines in the early heyday of Rolling Stone comes as quite a shock. […]
‘Brand New Cherry Flavor’ is strange, sexy yet incredibly disturbing as a TV horror
Brand New Cherry Flavor is probably one of the creepiest, strangest and grotesque, yet best limited series I have seen in a long long time. Lisa N. Nova (Rosa Salazar) […]
‘A Thousand Cuts’ Review: Alarming documentary reveals Maria Ressa’s fight for press freedom in the Philippines
In a country embattled with an authoritarian president, Ramona S. Diaz’s documentary shows how an attack on press freedom and weaponized social media can turn a nation in favor of […]
‘The Last of Us: Part 2’ Review: A dark and emotionally brutal masterpiece of a game
All I could say by the end of The Last of Us: Part II was, “Wow. My heart hurts so much right now.” Touted as a tale of revenge, the game incurs conflicted […]
Margot Robbie is me trying to eat all these ‘Hot Ones’ in new spicy-wing-eating interview
I am such a fan of First We Feast’s Hot Ones challenges — mainly because my poor self cannot handle eating spicy food at all and, every once in a while, they […]
‘Birds of Prey’ Review: Margot Robbie fantabulously emancipates Harley Quinn from the Joker, and she shines
They say to make a good story, you have to start from the beginning. Birds of Prey, the dazzling, female-fronted action epic about the super-heroine sidekick with no real superpowers […]
Hilary Duff’s ‘Lizzie McGuire Movie’ Test for Superfan Meghan Trainor is everything for all our inner fangirls
I absolutely adore this. Hilary Duff? In person? Asking you about moments from The Lizzie McGuire Movie — quite possibly the movie your younger self adored and knew all the lyrics […]
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