soraya roberts
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culture writer. contributing @defectormedia. IN MY HUMBLE OPINION: MY SO-CALLED LIFE (ECW, 2016). UNTITLED CULTURAL HISTORY (LIVERIGHT, 2025). firstlast @ gmail
toronto
Joined October 2011
wrote about diane keaton forever choosing to go solo despite all the romantic comedies.
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At the end of Baby Boom, the 1987 film starring Diane Keaton as a career woman who suddenly becomes a mother after āinheritingā a baby, she stands before a board room full of the very men who decided...
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A man who doesn't fit "in danger of being out of time" tears across the desert in a "dad robe" and "glaucoma-grade sunglasses." -- @sorayaroberts on wardrobe as character for Leonardo DiCaprio's Pat in #OneBattleAfterAnother.
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āSheās a runner, you a stone.ā Thatās a weird thing to say to Leonardo DiCaprioās character, Pat Calhoun, in One Battle After Another, given that the first time we see him in the film, he is in...
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wrote about THE SIMPSONS, a show people can't stop quoting to me even tho i have never seen an entire episode. (s/o to @alansiegella for sending me his book despite this).
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People have been quoting The Simpsons to me so often, and for so long, that even if I donāt recognize the quote, I am able to recognize that itās from The Simpsons. When I do recognize the quote,...
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nothing like spending months on a super sprawling reported culture piece to make you realize how few places run that shit anymore...if anyone has any names for places that do i would love to hear them.
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if you are a culture critic, it's rare to have your work be actively obviously useful, but i wrote about writer hanif kureishi suddenly becoming a paraplegic and capturing his changing perspective in his new memoir, SHATTERED, and got a magical comment. https://t.co/t97nEFj18H
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wrote about tunde adebimpe's first (!!!) solo album and the time-travelling quality of mixes (he designed it to be like a mixtape :x)
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Anything I say about āMagnetic,ā the lead single off TV On The Radio frontman Tunde Adebimpeās first solo album, Thee Black Boltz, wonāt live up to hearing it for the first time. Go listen to it....
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wrote about BLACK BOX DIARIES, which really moved me (and is up for an academy award).
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The āblack boxā in the title of Shiori ItÅās documentary Black Box Diaries, in which the journalist investigates her own sexual assault, essentially refers to the excuse Japan gives for not properly...
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wrote about sebastian stan, A DIFFERENT MAN, and the power of perspective. https://t.co/nJ4HRxYfRL
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last column before christmas break is on james acaster's new special, HECKLERS WELCOME (i really wanted to like this!!!), and the inundation of crowd work in comedy.
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I hate to say it, but the biggest laugh in James Acasterās new special, Hecklers Welcome, comes from a heckle. Obviously. The show opens with the British comic naming his house rules, which amount to...
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.@redroomrantings wrote about my favourite subject.
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Beloved by critics and horror fans, Red Rooms from Pascal Plante is an unmistakably Quebecois take on true crime fandom.
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wtf is in the north carolina water that everyone from there is a genius singer songwriter.
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