We’re heading to the country, folks, as we dive into one of this summer’s upcoming romances: Crista McHugh’s A Cowboy’s Sweetheart. McHugh’s novel throws us into the upper-class and highly accommodate…
Book Review: Emergency Contact by Mary H.K. Choi
Meet Penny, a young, quiet, and firmly independent woman heading to college to begin paving the path towards her goal of becoming a writer, as well as escape the exhaustion of parenting her own mother…
Adrift Movie Review: Strong Directing and Performances Keep a Basic Premise Afloat
Adrift opens with a beautifully choreographed single take sequence where Tami Oldham (Shailene Woodley) finds herself stranded on the remains of her sinking sailboat after it has been struck by a wave…
Movie Review: Call Me by Your Name
Call Me by Your Name ventures into a realm of romantic and sexual possibility in some sunny territory referred to only in the film as “somewhere in Italy.” Luca Guadagnino is a master of lavish and se…
Movie Review: Lady Macbeth
The period drama is best identified by it swoon-inducing romantic subplots and heavy melodrama. If the characters in Lady Macbeth stumbled upon the figures from a Jane Austen novel, a fistfight would …
Movie Review: The Big Sick
Kumail Nanjiani is speedily becoming one of the funniest comedians in Hollywood. He does great work in both Silicon Valley and his standup specials, where he pokes him at himself and his Pakistani upb…
Book Review: “Caraval” by Stephanie Garber
Often, the problem with YA fantasy is that the romantic aspects of the books overshadow the world-building and background necessary to make the fantasy elements shine. This problem plagued Caraval. In…