What Did I Miss?: January 2020

Published Works

Review of Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming by Ann Marie Fleming – For Goodreads, I briefly give my general thoughts on this graphic novel adaptation of a favorite animated film.

Review of The Magical Language of Others by EJ Koh – For Goodreads, I give more so of a train of thought on my questions and takeaways from reading this emotional memoir that was born out of a really emotional circumstance.

‘Just Mercy’ Effectively Calls for Justice with Emotional Impact – For The Nerds of Color, I go over my impressions of this powerful film that retells a true story that is still just as timely today.

Review of The Epic Crush of Genie Lo by F.C. Yee – For Goodreads, I give my brief thoughts about this first novel of – what is surely to be – an epic series.

Review of The Iron Will of Genie Lo by F.C. Yee – For Goodreads, I briefly discuss my thoughts on this long anticipated follow-up to F.C. Yee’s The Epic Crush of Genie Lo.

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Art Imitating Life

I believe in the past on this blog, I’ve talked plenty of times about life imitating art. More often than not, it’s particularly eerie when you’re a sci-fi writer, whose story is set in a fictional future, and then events in real life begin to bear some level of resemblance to ideas and occurrences you had initially constructed in  your mind.

An Exploration of Thought and Poetry: Recommended Viewing

The nominations for the 92nd Academy Awards were announced earlier this week, and I’ll be frank when I say that a number of the people and films whose names are on the list this year I’m both disappointed about and don’t really care for either. One of those films is “Marriage Story;” a film that I, surprisingly, have seen. But ever since “The Rise of Skywalker,” I now see Adam Driver in a new light, which led me to watching this now Oscar-nominated film.

Overall, I’m indifferent about it, and yet within that span of time, I somehow came across the title of another film Driver did a few years ago called “Paterson.” Intrigued by the trailer, I decided to check it out from the library. I’ve since watched it twice and now, I want to make it the first featured material for Recommended Analyzing for the year.

Thoughts About Identifying as a Filmmaker

It happened again this week. I mean, I guess it would make sense for why I’ve been asked about this more than once by now. When your day job oversees funding, distributing, and occasionally producing films (and a film festival), I can see how it would only be natural one would ask if you have any filmmaking aspirations of your own. So when a visitor asked if I am a filmmaker, I said no, but I did say that I am a screenwriter. He argued in saying that a screenwriter is a type of a filmmaker. But is it?