Last night I wrote you a love letter. I was wine-drunk, but not in a sweet way; I was losing my vision by the time I was finished but there were no mistakes. I was thinking about you, and trying to describe...
Not Bad, Dad, Not Bad - Jan Heller Levi
I think you are most yourself when you are swimming;
slicing the water with each stroke,
the funny way you breathe, your mouth cocked
as though...
His fingers– a deep red, mistaken for the seeds of the pomegranates.
To the tourist, the man was simply a vendor; to himself, a man who quenched the thirst of all but his own.
His voice croaked...
I was delighted to see that Alfonso Cuarón’s coming of age film Y tu mamá también, which had been waiting eagerly in my Letterboxd watchlist for months, is finally on Netflix! The film follows best...
On a Tuesday (discount day at Cinemark theatres!) my friend and I went to see Halina Reijn’s ‘erotic thriller,’ Babygirl. The film stars Nicole Kidman and Antonio Banderas, who need no introduction,...
When it comes to analyzing a documentary, I always feel that I have a necessity to give the filmmakers some amount of grace due to how low most documentary budgets are, and how passionate the filmmakers...
My flag was at half-mast today
The port was closed
The tides were gray
My eyes were shot
My tongue was dry
I heard the wail
Of children cry
The roaring almost drowned...
And what do you do when it all goes right?
How am I meant to cope!
When every part of the journey isn't a fight,
And I don't have to lose all hope.
What if it all works...
I want to write of
The things my mother told me
Of beautiful things
She said when she'd hold me
I long to say
"My mother told me" about this life we live
But instead my mother taught...
The air was stifling as 60,000 people packed in like sardines, each vying to get as close to the darkened stage as possible. For many of them, this was the event of a decade. It had been a long, hot day...
Back in 2018, Eduardo Chavez, the grandson of labor rights activist Cesar Chavez, released his debut documentary titled Hailing Cesar, which follows Eduardo’s journey towards understanding his grandfather...
The idea of pursuing a passion and turning it into a career is often a daunting thought for most people. In this day and age, the precarious job market and exorbitant amounts of inflation dissuade the...