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Embroideries What My Mother Never Told Me
My mother never talked to me about sex. Neither did her mother talk to her. And her mother’s mother probably died without ever saying that word out loud once in her entire life.…
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Persepolis Marjane Satrapi: revolution through a child’s eyes
I was ten years old when God switched sides. It wasn’t gradual. It happened like this: one day the Shah was God’s chosen one, and the next day he wasn’t. Nobody explained what…
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What Doesn’t Make the Records
Stuart A Life Backwards transforms a true story about homelessness and violence into a devastating reflection on memory, abandonment and the people society stops seeing.
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Renting Affection Is No Different Than Paying for Sex
Renting a family in Japan seems pathetic to us. But paying a therapist to listen is noble. The difference? We're better at lying to ourselves. A thread on why all our connections are…
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Rental Family: You Pay for a Hug and It’s the Realest Thing You Have
In Japan you pay by the hour for someone to pretend to be your dad, husband, or friend. Rental Family doesn't make this up—these agencies have operated legally for decades. Brendan Fraser plays…
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A Guy Wrote Like a Virgin and Madonna Stole It Forever
Billy Steinberg wrote Like a Virgin about his heartbreak. It was a vulnerable male ballad. Nobody wanted to record it. Madonna heard it and went crazy. She sang it as feminist revolution. Didn't…
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One Thousand and One Nights or How to Save Your Life Telling Stories
One Thousand and One Nights is more than a classic collection of tales. It’s a brutal survival story about storytelling, addiction and the power narratives have over human beings.
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Films Worth Watching More Than Once, Unfolding Realities
Have you ever finished a film utterly confused, convinced you missed something fundamental? What if I told you there are films specifically designed to deceive your perception of reality on the first viewing?…
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The Truman Show: The Film That Invented Your Instagram Feed
The Truman Show (1998) wasn't exaggerating—it just arrived 27 years early. Predicted reality TV, Instagram, mass surveillance. Today we live publicly by choice. The difference: Truman didn't choose. We did. And we keep…
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Nouvelle Vague: Linklater Films the Moment Cinema Got Young
Did you ever watch a movie and think “this changed everything”? Godard did it literally in 1959. Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague doesn’t tell you how Breathless was shot—it drops you inside the chaotic…
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