He’s baaack. Golden Globe winner and Academy Award nominee Sacha Baron Cohen’s Borat Sagdiyev, the (fictional) leading journalist from Kazakhstan’s State-run TV network and that nation’s now-fourth most famous man, has returned to the big screen after 14 years, a long time during which a lot has happened. For one, Borat was sacked from his […]
Author: Martin Haro
#San Francisco, 3.3.20
Y’ know, everyone who came to this American land came seeking freedom and better. The vote is a direct result of that hope. It is one thing to take the imported organic blueberries that you get all year long at the grocery store for granted, but the vote is quite another. Do not take the […]
Il Fait Chaud
I don’t know what to tell ya: It is hot in the Bay Area. For serious, I think I’ve lost count, but I’m gonna say this that we felt this week was our sixth heat wave in two months. Get me a fan. Hey you. Time to wake up.
San Francisco, 6.1.20: The Pursuit of Happiness
Lunch before editing. Look here, it’s June 1, 2020. We know what needs to change – the entire world sees it. Here, there, everywhere. This system that discriminates, rapes and pillages, sickens, and shortchanges our brothers and sisters, you, me, it’s got to get an upgrade. Today. It doesn’t work. Hasn’t worked, except for those […]
The Thing About a Vaccine
It has been a little more than eight months since COVID-19 insinuated itself into our lives, upending our local and global routines, and forcing (most of) us to take a real good look at ourselves and the culture and the world, and really consider our place on our planet. It has been an extended come-to-Jesus […]
Life Is a Memory
Dudes. I was last week years old, when I saw this performance of “Gambler,” from “The Virgin Tour,” by Madonna for the very first time. No. Joke. Like she does during “Nobody Knows Me,” from the “Re-Invention Tour,” this is some energetic shit. Madonna dominates her dance floor stage left; much like during the glorious […]
‘Evil Eye’ x King of Cups
This week, Amazon Prime Video’s Welcome to the Blumhouse adds Evil Eye, directed by Tennesseean twin directors Elan Dassani and Rajeev Dassani, to its anthological collective. Like Black Box, this is another impeccable production of supernatural proportion (albeit a much more focused one) from Team Blumhouse Television & Amazon Studios. I mean, it’s all right there […]
Remembering the Queen of Tejano
Selena was some kind of queen. Bidi. Bidi. Bom. Bom. That much I knew growing up in the ’90s down in Lima, and that much sunk in after word that the star had been shot dead at age 23 reached Peru. The date was March 31, 1995, so it wasn’t that along, but this was […]
‘Black Box’ x King of Cups
The Blumhouse is taking over opening on Amazon Prime Video, with Black Box and Veena Sud’s The Lie, the first two of an eight-movie anthology o.k.a. Welcome to the Blumhouse, hitting the streaming service today for your entertainment this Halloween season. Another drop – featuring the Priyanka Chopra Jonas-produced Evil Eye and Nocturne – is […]
Vote MMXX: The Playlist
Vote for science, and for decency, America. You know the date (don’t even think to try to say you forgot or you didn’t know): Nov. 3 – be there or be square. Yes, there is quite a lot on the line, but you have the power to make a difference. This is your time. Shine […]
