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Fresh Off The Boat Makes People Uncomfortable, And That's A Great Sign
Last week, history was made with the first Asian American prime time show in 20 years, Fresh Off The Boat. The show made quite a wave as the third most tweeted show of the night, right behind Empire...
View ArticleIs Culture Just for Rich Kids Now?
A class war is raging in British culture. James McAvoy, the star of the X-Men reboots, is the latest actor to wade into the debate, when he told The Herald of Scotland that an acting career was...
View ArticleMy 10 Random Insta-Grammy Observations From the 2015 Grammy Awards
I love awards shows, but admittedly, my favorite shows are the Oscars, Globes, Emmys and Tonys, seeing as I follow film, TV and theater more closely. I did, however, watch the Grammys Sunday night, and...
View ArticlePerry and Swift: How Do You Handle Friendship Fallouts?
It isn't always just happy music and dancing. Singer-songwriters Katy Perry and Taylor Swift are engaged in an ongoing rivalry. The alleged incident that sparked the "bad blood" between them revolves...
View ArticleMy Conversation With Eddie Redmayne
Tonight I'm joined by actor Eddie Redmayne, the Golden Globe-winning and Academy Award-nominated star of the hit film The Theory of Everything. The film portrays the story of real-life theoretical...
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Best of Berlinale: A Conversation With Simon Curtis on Woman in Gold
Helen Mirren and Ryan Reynolds in Woman in Gold, photo by Robert Viglasky, courtesy of The Weinstein Company In his director's statement for the stunning new film Woman in Gold, which world premiered...
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Romeo Is a Dirtbag. So Why Is Romeo and Juliet Our Favorite Love Story?
Valentine's Day-timed Romeo and Juliet tie-ins can be found everywhere, from the upper-middle-brow NEH-funded PBS series Shakespeare Uncovered, which premiers a Joseph Fiennes-hosted episode on Romeo...
View ArticleOscar and Me
As long as my memory serves, every year around this time I have been planted in front of a TV to watch the Oscars. As a little girl, I watched them religiously with my mother and my sisters on our tiny...
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Exclusive Interview: Rock City on the 57th #GRAMMYs, Growing Up Poor and...
What are the odds that someone is nominated for a Grammy award? 1 in a million. What are the odds that two brothers from St. Thomas, Virgin Islands are nominated for a grammy thrice? Not likely....
View Article'The Imitation Game' Tells the Full Story of My Codebreaking Uncle
I sadly never had the opportunity to meet my uncle, Alan Turing. We share some very basic similarities -- we both attended Sherborne and King's College, Cambridge, both have an affinity for...
View ArticleWill Regret, Significance or Accomplishment Win at the Oscars?
What film will win the Best Picture Oscar this year? Will it be the one with the greatest production accomplishment? Will it be the one that takes you deep inside a character's subjective world-view...
View ArticleBenjamin Scheuer's The Lion at the Lynn Redgrave Theater and Williamstown...
When Benjamin Scheuer walks onto the Lynn Redgrave Theater stage, picking up an acoustic guitar, announcing he's 10 years old, you believe him. He is about to tell his story in song, accompanying...
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The Bachelor Recapped By Someone Who Has Actually Been To Iowa, Unlike Any of...
We open with Kelsie having a fake panic attack while the other women gaze at her unmoved. She is trying to make sure that Chris doesn't dump her after she insisted that Chris isn't going to dump her....
View ArticleMadonna, Annie Lennox and 'Acting Your Age'
It's far too common to pit women in popular music against one another. And, after Madonna and Annie Lennox delivered their respective performances on the 57th Grammy Awards on Sunday, that's exactly...
View ArticleWhat Readers of Fifty Shades of Grey Want Their Male Partners to Learn From...
With the premiere of Fifty Shades the movie widely anticipated this Valentine's Day, I think it's important to look at what heterosexual men can learn about what women are seeking in the fantasy that...
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Overlooked and Underappreciated: The Dark Wonders of the British Series Peep...
Jean Paul-Sartre, the twentieth-century philosopher and father of existentialism once infamously wrote, "Hell is other people." And though wildly quoted, few seem to acknowledge that Sartre never...
View ArticleFresh Off the Boat: What Do We Want Out of an Asian American TV Show?
Fresh Off the Boat, the landmark show that has finally put Asian Americans on network television, arrived into the blogosphere with fanfare -- as if it were the coming of a Messiah. And just about...
View ArticleThis Abandoned Hospital in Detroit Is Reality, Not a Set on 'The Walking Dead'
This story was written by Robert Johnson and originally appeared on Pixable. Driving through Detroit, abandoned commercial buildings of all types rise up from the mass of vacant homes to catch the eye....
View Article6 Movies That Taught Me Something About Life, Love and Other Totally Random...
My 10-year-old son, who is intrigued by all things cinematic, recently asked me what movies I enjoyed watching when I was younger. A flood of awesome (mostly) '80s flicks immediately sprang to mind. I...
View ArticleAn Immigrant's Take on 'Selma'
Last week, I watched the critically acclaimed film Selma, which depicts the events surrounding the 1965 march for voting rights from Selma to Montgomery. This movie comes at an especially opportune...
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