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My grad school writing professor told me to prepare a manifesto to read aloud to the class. Here's what I wrote.
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Earlier today, when I noticed that the actress Rose Byrne was trending on Twitter, I figured it was for either one of two reasons: Byrne…
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It was 1990, the year of the Hubble Telescope and the World Wide Web, of Pretty Woman and Dick Tracy. It was the year of “Vogue.”
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Quarantine from COVID-19 means screening the films I missed last year — and reading them to filth.
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By cancelling people on social media, we are cancelling ourselves.
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Brad Pitt gives a measured performance in a beautiful spectacle of a film that doesn’t know what it’s supposed to be
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From middle school fashion trends to Mariah Carey music videos, here are the pop culture moments that shaped by homosexuality.
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Seven weeks until Labor Day — just enough time to polish off these poignant, sophisticated, sexy titles.
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Revisiting the film that takes us inside the mind of the world’s most unreachable pop star
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