Small Admissions: A lab full of successful creative experiments.

Small Admissions: A lab full of successful creative experiments.

25 Books in 2020: #4, Small Admissions Small Admissions is a charming, lighthearted novel that uses creative experiments, especially with point of view, to tell its story. Set in the uber-competitive world of New York City private school admissions, the story employs both first-person and omniscient points of view. It follows twenty-something Kate Pearson–no, not […]

A Masterclass in the Beauty of Restraint

A Masterclass in the Beauty of Restraint

100 Movies in 2020: # 15, Lost in Translation Lost in Translation is a story about an unlikely relationship between a faded movie star who comes to Japan to make liquor ads and a young woman accompanying her photographer husband on a business trip. In this film, writer and director Sofia Coppola gives a masterclass […]

Booksmart Is the Best Female Buddy Movie in Years

Booksmart Is the Best Female Buddy Movie in Years

100 Movies in 2020: #13, Booksmart A good female buddy movie is hard to come by. There’s this list, but half of these aren’t true buddy movies (the other half I haven’t heard of, much less seen). Bombshell? Steel Magnolias? No. Two women who happen to be friends in a film does not a buddy […]