Food has proved time and time again to be a powerful link to our memories… so much so that just seeing it on screen invites many feelings that aren’t always simple. While “food” may conjure ...
When I think about growing up in America, I often consider what my definition of home is. The answer usually circles between complicated and chaotic. At GDoC Expo this year, many games and developers dove ...
Josie Ho stands across from me as an assistant refreshes her makeup. I take this chance to recollect my thoughts, open my reporter’s notebook, and take in the person mere inches away from me — ...
At this year’s New York Asian Film Festival, dozens of films represented the cinematic talent of various Asian communities across the globe, but only one film spoke true to the often convoluted Asian American experience. ...
When we talk about nature today, it’s often loaded with visions of some bygone, unspoiled era where plants and animals lived in interwoven harmony. What follows is the palpitating guilt of human nature and how ...
Do you ever get roped into a film with certain expectations about what you’re going to see… only to be met with something completely different? I would safely file Japanese director Shinzo Katayama’s Missing under ...
Tedious chores moonlight as signifiers for a young adult’s coming of age. Paying taxes, doing your own laundry, learning how to cook. During my college days, I often winced and skimped as much as I ...
Right at the beginning of South Korean director Syeyoung Park’s The Fifth Thoracic Vertebra, a young woman tells her narcoleptic boyfriend about a shocking discovery she made in a nearby river. She and her team, ...
Every year, Montreal’s Fantasia Fest boasts an incredible lineup of genre films, ranging from horror films, thrillers, and the downright weird. But perhaps moreso than it is a genre-fest, Fantasia does a great job of ...
When now Austin-based indie pop band Letting Up Despite Great Faults first released their self-titled debut back in 2009, the music scene was completely different. Spotify was nonexistent, and the place where bands got discovered ...