The Grammy Awards continue to be plagued by controversy and even boycotted by a number of big names in the music industry, including The Weeknd, Justin Bieber, Nicki Minaj, and others. Many question the awards show’s ability to keep up with the changing times and remain relevant as the music scene continues to develop and […]Read More
I know that a lot of children are traumatized by movies like The Shining or A Clockwork Orange, but I personally never really got over View From the Top, an obscure romantic comedy where Gwyneth Paltrow gives up her dream job of being an international flight attendant to live in Cleveland with her boyfriend, Mark […]Read More
On February 27, Vanessa Bryant shared on her Instagram that she only recently came across Evan Rachel Wood’s tweet that the actress wrote on the day that Bryant’s late husband, Kobe Bryant, was killed in a tragic helicopter accident along with his 13-year-old daughter Giana and seven other victims. Wood’s tweet read, “What has happened is tragic. I […]Read More
On this International Women’s Day, I am grateful that this season of The Bachelor, an iconic feminist show, is about to come to an end next week. You know it’s bad when people’s guilty pleasure does not bring satisfaction anymore. This week is Fantasy Suites week. Does Matt James also keep his eyes open at […]Read More
Happy Women’s History Month! Let’s celebrate by tuning into the show that celebrates heterosexual love by engaging in all the big isms: sexism, racism, classism, ableism, etc. Let’s get empowered by watching all these beautiful, slim ladies gracefully cross their legs and fix their hair while sprinkling words like ‘empowerment’ here and there. I’m in! […]Read More
Are you familiar with the common cynical commentary to contemporary art that goes, “I could have made this!”? The remark implies laziness and oversimplification, often misleadingly assigned to certain art forms, as they are juxtaposed with more elaborate and, what some people believe to be, ‘more skilled’ art. A famous response to this critique is “… […]Read More
It’s the hometowns week when Matt meets the families of all the four women left on the show. I judge the success of a reality show built around finding ‘true love’ by the extent it can make me forget about the ridiculousness of the whole premise. It is especially hard to accomplish during hometowns week […]Read More
The drama has dwindled this week on The Bachelor, with major tea being spilled outside its airtime. Along with Rachael’s, one of the contestants, racist past exposed all over the social media, Chris Harrison also came under fire for his tone-deaf and complicit response to Rachael’s racist behavior when he was interviewed on Extra by the first Black Bachelorette, Rachel Lindsay. Harrison has […]Read More
Time is of the essence, as the latest season of The Bachelor quickly progresses toward the hometowns week. In all honesty, I did not even notice how the show got so close to this milestone but not due to being engrossed with all the relationships on the show but rather because of being exhausted from […]Read More
Minari is a Korean name for water dropwort, a type of green vegetable commonly found across East Asia. As we learn early in the film, Minari is relatively easy to cultivate, as it grows everywhere. The plant represents the central metaphor of Lee Isaac Chung’s Minari – Korean culture taking roots on American soil. The film tells […]Read More
