A look at Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs. Isle of Dogs is the perfect blend of wit, heart, and adventure. My love for Duke, the gossip loving dog voiced by Jeff Goldblum, grows every day. The incorporation of Japanese language and culture is well executed (the sushi scene wow!) but stereotypes are a common theme throughout. The film’s ending, while beautiful, is slightly rushed and underwhelming and left me with…
This is a personalized detailing of my experience watching Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox. At the age of ten, I watched Fantastic Mr. Fox for the first time. The only valuable things I gathered from it were 1. it was quite an odd interpretation of the iconic novel that I treasured so much and 2. it had such particular stop motion animation techniques, far different from the likes of Wallace…
On any given day, I have a lot of strange, random, unexplainable thoughts. For a two-week period, I decided to write them all down, or at least the ones I could remember when in reach of my phone, in my Twitter drafts. With notes for the sake of clarity, here are my thoughts from March 7 – March 15: Alexandre Arnault is my greatest inspiration. Note: Son of…
On any given day, I have a lot of strange, random, unexplainable thoughts. For a two-week period, I decided to write them all down, or at least the ones I could remember when in reach of my phone, in my Twitter drafts. With notes for the sake of clarity, here are my thoughts from February 27 – March 6: What other types of ovations are there besides standing ones? …
Today is March 14 and Professor Stephen Hawking has passed on. At just four minutes past midnight, the first Breaking News headline rolled in. Over the next ninety minutes, at least ten different article alerts reached my phone, detailing the same news over and over again. Candidly, I am hesitant to admit that I cried, overwhelmed by the idea that such a profound human being could be overcome by something…
February 14th. Valentine’s Day. A day that capitalizes on a sacred emotion as a corporate money-grab scam. On that very day of this very year, Frank Ocean came out of hiding to restore true love within our tragic world. Frank Ocean is my number one, all time, favorite musician, yet he is known to take excruciatingly long hiatuses from his craft, only to return with utter perfection and revolutionizing the…
Oh, the good old days. The good days when the most controversial, head-turning, disgraceful part of the modern music industry was when people disagreed with Kanye West voicing his opinions. Now, the industry is full of rapists, pedophiles, abusers, oh my! As you put your headphones in and press play, you don’t know if you’ll be listening to someone’s life story or their confession. In a society where justice, truth,…
As people of Earth, we all have an interesting relationship with our own names. Although I have gone by a nickname since the third grade, I do take pride in the elements of my personality and heritage that are exemplified by this significant factor of my life: Full Name: A city in Saudi Arabia Middle Name: “River” in Farsi Last Name: The name of an ancient king Nickname: shortening of…
Now that 2017 has closed and 2018 is upon us, I like to reflect upon the positives and negatives of the year. Although I can think of an endless list of shocking and troubling negative aspects of 2017, some of which continue into the new year, it also brought with it a re-imaginative take on art. Art takes on many forms, but 2017 was specifically a great year for music.…
This is a comprehensive review of Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver. Baby Driver is one of those movies I had vowed to watch in theaters but never did. After over six months, I finally found time to experience this masterpiece on the 110-inch screen that turns my basement into a boastful home theater. I find it hard to invest time in movies that precariously balance on the two-hour mark, but I…
