Pitching a perfect game in baseball is the ultimate single game achievement. It’s the scenario we all imagine growing up. Two outs. Bottom of the ninth. One more out ‘til perfection. You can feel your heart racing. The crowd’s on their feet, and then– Let’s rewind a little. We all know the perfect ending. You…
Dear To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before (2018), I’ve been trying to piece you together for quite some time now. It’s nothing to do with your plot—the story is so clearly written it’s impossible to not understand. It’s about the fact that I have watched you three times in the past week, and I…
The first time I sat down to watch the pilot of Netflix’s new show Insatiable, I found it so blatantly offensive and aggressively unfunny that I wasn’t sure I could make it to the end of the episode. When I’d finally reached my limit, I paused the video to see how much longer I’d have…
The Other Side of the Wind — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMWHBUTHmf0 Brynne: The chaos of this trailer seems to reflect the erratic career of J.J. Hannaford (Jake Huston), a fictitious film director likely in some ways molded in the image of Orson Welles himself. Welles’ complicated life and career are sadly often forgotten beyond the confines of…
Stories of sexual assault are incredibly difficult to tell. This book, and my column, simply try to do so. Also, I acknowledge that different Native communities prefer different identifying terms (“Native American,” “Indian,” “American Indian,” etc) For the purposes of continuity in this column, I will use “Native American” and “Native.” Louise Erdrich’s novel, The…
On September 4th, 1981, a queen was born. Perhaps the most iconic artist working today, Beyoncé has managed to continuously dominate the charts, selling over 100 million records worldwide, winning a total of 22 Grammy awards, not to mention countless other accolades. I grew up listening to Beyoncé and she has remained my favorite artist…
Alright, sit down, shut up and buckle in. We’re going into this thing together and we’re either going to make it out the same way or die in the middle of this review. Here’s the gist: in 2017, the actual literal weasels that run Warner Bros. Pictures found a cursed VHS in an Ark of…
Arsenal never lost its opening two matches of the Premier League under Arsene Wenger. Yet at the end of Matchday 2 in England’s top flight, former PSG manager Unai Emery has done so. I won’t say that Emery isn’t at fault for some of the decisions he made, because he was: the obvious mistake was…
As the second half rolls on, the postseason push of the Major League Baseball season begins to heat up. In the dog days of August, we start to see who will remain when fall comes around, and who will fade out of the playoff chase. In other words, it becomes more clear who are the…
Una y otra vez, los artistas nos dicen que la fama no es lo que parece ser. En su álbum más nuevo, Maluma comparte el mismo mensaje con un toque nuevo. F.A.M.E. significa fé, alma, música y esencia. El álbum revela a la “persona que está detrás del artista” y cuenta con los éxitos de…