Mar 30The Best Streaming Services If You Love MoviesEarlier this year, I decided to do an inventory of the streaming services I’m subscribed to and which ones were really worth it. As a new streaming service seems to be launched every few months, the monthly cost for these subscriptions can add up fast. 9 times out of 10…Streaming4 min read
Mar 25GOT7 Is Booked and BusyIt’s been a little over a year since the multi-national, multi-talented K-pop group GOT7 left their agency Jinyoung Park Entertainment (JYPE) in a move celebrated by ahgases, their devoted fanbase, after debuting with the agency and being managed by them for 7 years, as outlined in their contract. Since then…Kpop7 min read
Dec 10, 2021The Yassification of True CrimeIt’s everywhere. Podcasts, YouTube channels, even cable TV shows — true crime. The genre that stems from a fascination with the unthinkable, what kind of person would murder someone at random, and not just murder, but brutalize beforehand and get satisfaction from it? From the pre-code mob movies of the…True Crime10 min read
Nov 25, 2021In Defense of Kay CorleoneAlmost as iconic as their volatile and immortalized husbands, the “mob wife” in fiction is a role characterized by tradition and loyalty in the face of violence and infidelity. They’re the unsung pillars of Cosa Nostra, working behind the scenes to help their husbands save face toward “legitimate” society. From…Film10 min read
Sep 24, 2021Buffaloed Pulls Back the Curtain on the Unregulated Debt Collection IndustryPeg Dahl (Zooey Deutch) is nothing less than a hustler, a smartly dressed #girlboss before it was all over t-shirts and coffee mugs on Etsy. Tired of living in lower middle class near-poverty in the once booming factory city of Buffalo, New York, Peg will stop at nothing to claw…Debt7 min read
Jun 28, 2021Reflections in a Switchblade Knife: Looking Back on Sal Mineo’s Bold BisexualityIn the decade following the end of the Second World War, a new type of American emerged from the shining new suburbs full of mass-market consumerism and conformity — the teenager. While, of course, people had been teenagers prior to the 1950s, the concept of teenagers as a class of…LGBTQ10 min read