Selected Writing

Film Essays

• “Fail Safe” and When Safeguards Fail (December 2021 / Bright Wall/Dark Room)

• We Do What We Can to Endure: On Memory and Time in David Lowery’s Films (August 2021 / Roger Ebert)

• A New Mexican Canon: The Filmmakers Rebalancing the Narrative of Their Country ( March 2021 / Roger Ebert)

• The Transformative Power of Empathy Unites 2021's Best Documentary Oscar Contenders (April 2020 / Paste)

• “The Young Girls of Rochefort” in the Social Isolation Era (Sept. 2020 / Crooked Marquee)

• Maria Bakalova Is the “Borat” Sequel Breakout, but “Transgression” Showed What She Can Do (Nov. 2020 / Paste)

• “Pan’s Labyrinth” and a pandemic: Guillermo del Toro’s surreal fairy tale takes on new meaning in surreal times (KENS 5)

• “Gladiator” at 20: More than ever, Ridley Scott's Roman epic feels like a genre's brief return than a full revitalization (KENS 5)

• What the historic triumph of “Parasite” means for right now, and what it could mean for the future (KENS 5)

• Movies in the 2010s largely captured, and warned of, our moments of reckoning (KENS 5)

Lists & Rankings

• Every James Bond movie ranked, from 'Dr. No' to 'No Time To Die' (KENS 5)

• The best movies of 2020 (KENS 5)

• Every Pixar movie, ranked (KENS 5)

• 8 movies for the uncertain moment (KENS 5)

• Eight actors you should know for the start of the new decade (KENS 5)

• The decade that horror came home: 10 movies that told the genre's story in the 2010s (KENS 5)

Arts & Entertainment Reporting

• San Antonio’s newest film festival is all about animals, and kicks off Friday (November 2022 / KENS 5)

• 'At a crossroads': San Antonio theater groups driven more than ever by inclusivity, on the stage and off (September 2022 / KENS 5)

• What has San Antonio lost with the dissolution of its full-time symphony? ‘A cultural aquifer’ (July 2022 / KENS 5)

• San Antonio’s newest music venue has been built at Tech Port Center + Arena. Will the city notice? (May 2022 / KENS 5)

• In frigid Texas, a warm return to in-person festival-goers at SXSW 2022 (March 2022 / KENS 5)

• What if the MCU never existed? (October 2021 / Inverse)

• Texas Biennial returns with massive San Antonio footprint and a multifaceted showcase for contemporary art (October 2021 / KENS 5)

• At McNay's 'Art of SA Eats' exhibit, a new way to appreciate San Antonio's food culture (October 2021 / KENS 5)

• Ongoing ‘Staging Nature’ exhibit puts the art of process on full display at the McNay (September 2021 / KENS 5)

• How a San Antonio chamber ensemble continued its mission of accessibility to the arts during the pandemic (August 2021 / KENS 5)

• 'San Antonio is where it’s at': New Alamo City organization seeks to connect female filmmakers while training the next generation (August 2021 / KENS 5)

• 'Always have a plan B, C and D': Alejandro Montoya Marin on the production of his 2021 SA Film Festival selections (August 2021 / KENS 5)

• 'We're moving into a different world': How the pandemic underscored Magik Theatre's mission of serving the community (May 2021 / KENS 5)

• State of cinema: How San Antonio's biggest local theater chain weathered a blockbuster-less summer (Sept. 2020 / KENS 5)

• The show must go on: In 26th year, SA Film Fest prepares for festival unlike any other in its history (August 2020 / KENS 5)

• Las Hembras focus on culture, identity on a personal level (March 2017 / Albuquerque Journal)

• Box Performance Space offers summer improv classes (April 2017 / Albuquerque Journal)

• Youth has its days (March 2017 / Albuquerque Journal)

Interviews

• ‘Huesera’ director on dismantling traditional ideas of motherhood (February 2023 / KENS 5)

• Meet the Texas-born actress who helped bring 2023 horror icon M3GAN to life (January 2023 / KENS 5)

• 'Nope' composer Michael Abels on working with Jordan Peele to create a genre-fluid score (July 2023 / KENS 5)

• ‘We’re All Going to the World’s Fair’ director Jane Schoenbrun on creating a new cinematic language (April 2022 / KENS 5)

• 'Love will ultimately, hopefully, overcome the bad': David Siev on his raw, pandemic-era documentary 'Bad Axe' (March 2022 / KENS 5)

• ‘Fire of Love’ director Sara Dosa on crafting the story, and myth, of history’s boldest volcanologists (March 2022 / KENS 5)

• ‘Son of Monarchs’ Director Alexis Gambis (October 2021 / JumpCut)

• How a south Texas childhood helped Mike Jones craft the story of Pixar's 'Luca' (June 2021 / KENS 5)

• 'At the Ready' director Maisie Crow on telling her subjects' stories through their own eyes (Feb. 2021 / Sundance / KENS 5)

• 'We were learning the whole time': 'Cusp' co-directors on capturing the aimlessness of being a teenage girl in small-town Texas (Feb. 2021 / Sundance / KENS 5)

• Jesse Borrego discusses telling San Antonio stories and Latino voices ahead of CineFestival (KENS 5)

• Una poca de gracia: Lou Diamond Phillips on his breakout turn as Ritchie Valens (KENS 5)