By MATT SHAPIRO While I love plenty of Netflix’s original programming (“Narcos,” “The Crown” and “BoJack Horseman” are brilliant) I have not been the biggest fan of their original movies. So I didn’t have particularly high...
By J.D. ECARMA I always come back to movies. Stories help when I’m going through something hard and it’s as much as I can do to get through everyday existence. Movies obviously aren’t a...
By J.D. ECARMA Come back, cotton candy queen. We miss you. Katy Perry’s new single “Chained to the Rhythm” commits certain sins that can be forgiven in a Top 40 hit, such as recklessly...
By AMANDA ELLIOTT When I was growing up in the upstate of South Carolina, my impressions of feminists and the feminist movement began and ended with man-hating angry women burning bras in the streets....
By J.D. ECARMA Photos courtesy of KATE BRYAN A few days before the historic Women’s March on Washington, organizers decided to cut the partnership of New Wave Feminists, a Dallas-based nonprofit comprising women who...
By J.D. ECARMA It’s honestly a shame that “safe space” has come to signify college students who want to shut down productions of “The Vagina Monologues” for allegedly being triggering and transphobic. Safe spaces are...
By J.D. ECARMA (Warning: Spoilers.) During the 1930s, American audiences flocked to musicals to let Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers take their minds off the Great Depression for a little while. At first, “La...
Credit: Netflix By J.D. ECARMA [MAJOR, LIFE-RUINING SPOILERS IN CASE YOU HAVEN’T WATCHED “A YEAR IN THE LIFE” TWICE ALREADY.] Whatever happened to Rory Gilmore? The former wunderkind made it into Harvard, Princeton and...
By J.D. ECARMA WARNING: ALL THE SPOILERS. YES, INCLUDING THE LAST FOUR WORDS. With no comforting theme song, a sharper edge and its fair share of regrets, “Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life”...
Credit: NBC By J.D. ECARMA No superheroes. No kings, queens or knights. Just a family with (mostly) normal problems trying to navigate life. “This Is Us” is a breath of fresh air in...