Frida writing team member Nicole Nguyen takes a look at Hereditary and its portrayal of disability.
Frida writing team member Nicole Nguyen examines the history of “sexy” vampires in film and literature.
Today, Paris remains one of the most valuable and illuminating pieces of LGBTQ-focused media that exists.
Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining turns forty this year! And what a year it’s been. To be clear, that wasn’t an awkward attempt to shoehorn a …
It hardly bears saying that Hollywood has historically had a problem with diverse representation on the silver screen, especially with regard to Black artists. The recent push for better media representation, while pressing, is not new.
At some point, the end of August and the advent of September no longer holds much relevance for us. We grow beyond the back-to-school nerves and/or excitement. However, whether it’s nostalgia or relief that that period of your life is over, the memories of simultaneous endings and beginnings still linger.
When it comes to classical Hollywood films (“old” films, if you will), we might have a tendency to think of them as proper or even chaste, at least compared to today’s films. However, this is not necessarily the case.
Jules Dassin’s 1955 film noir Rififi had been on my watchlist for a long time, and when The Frida offered it to stream, I finally seized the opportunity to check it off.
We are OC’s year-round film festival.