SELECTED FILM WRITING

Cine-File:
11 x 14
A Serious Man
The Boy and the Heron
Clifford
Just Another Girl on the I.R.T.
May December
The Nutty Professor
Scarecrow in a Garden of Cucumbers
Vulcanizadora
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Chicago Reader:
Daaaaaalí!
Love Hurts
Captain America: Brave New World

The Spool:
Smiley Face is Both Anna Faris & Gregg Araki at Their Funniest
"[Fanciful] camerawork, put-upon performance styles, and bright and poppy aesthetics are employed to means both despairing and delirious, and Smiley Face weaponizes the mania of Araki’s filmmaking talents to delightful ends.”

Retrospectives on local Chicago Filmmakers for the Parks District’s “Chicago Onscreen” program for 2022 and 2023.

On Manuela Hung’s “Handpan Journey”
On Katie Kapuza’s “Citric”
On Vanessa S. Vallerie & John Gregorio’s “Gut Feelings”
On Henry Van Zytveld’s “Teacher in the Window”

Newcity Stage:

Strike Up the Band: A Review of Cambodian Rock Band at Victory Gardens Theater
”Lauren Yee is one of this country’s premier playwrights, her works transcending genre and form, tapping into emotional truths embedded in deep cultural specificity. To see a Lauren Yee play is to take a glimpse into the hope and promise of how the American theater can truly thrive and succeed.”

Dog Days: A Review of Yen at Raven Theatre
“The ultimate tragedy of ‘Yen’ is that everyone here is longing for some sense of family, ultimately landing on the most foolish, destructive option of all: trying to find it in each other.”