While I was watching the movie “Margaret” – directed by Kenneth Lonergan and released in 2011 – I heard somebody scream in anguish outside of my apartment building. I was so mesmerized
In 2020, the 24-hour news cycle has never felt so important, and simultaneously, so contentious. The “truth” has become a bragging point instead of the baseline and hyperpolarization is virtually unavoidable. Recently,
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In the wake of the brutal and senseless murders of Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and George Floyd, I, a young black woman, felt called upon by the Black Lives Matter movement and
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“It’s as if they had occupied SoHo” When I called my brother Dylan last fall for help on my final paper in Wally Levis’ “Money and Morals” class, he hung up and
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“We can learn to work and speak when we are afraid in the same way we have learned to work and speak when we are tired. For we have been socialized to
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Movies have been an almost essential part of culture and society in America for decades. The cinema is a classic place to go for a date, or a place to bring the
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