Though film is my main passion, I’ve written about all manner of other subjects: not just other forms of entertainment (TV, music, books), but also news, politics, trending, travel, technology, wellness, and more. I’ve been a staffer writing long-form articles, and I’ve been on call to cover breaking news and aggregation. Below is a sampling of the wide variety of topics I’ve covered.

About film and filmmaking:

“Every Six Hours,” about film catering (Filmmaker)

“Worlds Within Screens,” about the rise of virtual production (Filmmaker)

“Go Back to the Good Ol’ Naughty Days,” about Sliver and ’90s erotic cinema (Jambys)"

On Tex Avery, Looney Tunes and Hollywood cartoons pioneer (Polygon)

“George Lucas’ Long History Of Using His Star Wars Money To Save Film History” (Uproxx)

“What, Exactly, Is Hiding in the Disney+ Movie Archies,” about the studio’s infamous live-action comedies from the ’60s and ’70s (Vulture)

“‘My Advice Is To Basically Get Help’: Industry Experts Explain The Quirks And Nuances Of Tax Incentives” (Filmmaker)

A takedown of Dinesh D’Souza’s far right propaganda, tied to 2018’s Death of a Nation (The Guardian)

The 25 Best Horror Films of the ’80s (Uproxx)

“When Late Night Television Brought Bad Movies Into The Mainstream,” about Elvira, Vampira, the Medved brothers, Up All Night, and Tommy Wiseau (Uproxx)

“Nicolas Cage’s Most Insane Role Sheds Light On What Drives Him,” about 1988’s Vampire’s Kiss (Uproxx)

“The Center Holds,” about a retrospective dedicated to filmmaker Frederick Wiseman (The Village Voice)

Alien: Covenant set visit (Metro US)

Obituary for filmmaker Jonathan Demme (Metro US)

How Paul Thomas Anderson’s Punch-Drunk Love comments on today’s toxic nice guys (Metro US)

A “mini-oral history” of Whit Stillman’s Metropolitan (Metro US)

“13 films now streaming that are sexier than Fifty Shades Darker” (Metro US)

Once plotted a 24-hour marathon of horror film to watch for Halloween using what was available to stream at the time (Metro US)

“Seven films not to watch with your mom on Mother’s Day” (Metro US)

“Down with love: For Valentine’s Day, here’s 18 unpleasant anti-romances” (Metro US)

Miscellaneous subjects

“How Headspace taught me to stop worrying and love meditation” (Metro US)

“Offline dating: How I learned to flirt from a professional dating coach” (Metro US)

A look at David Bowie’s discography post-Let’s Dance (Metro US)

A defense of Paul McCartney’s “Wonderful Christmastime” (Metro US)

Defended Dougie Jones on Twin Peaks: The Return (Metro US)

Wrote about the depressing third season of BoJack Horseman (Metro US)

Travel pieces about Berlin and Hamburg (Metro US)

Then there’s the thousands and thousands of stories from my lengthy stint as Uproxx’s nights and weekends writer/editor, including:

Entertainment:

“A ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ Billboard Got Defaced In The Most Beautiful, Lewd Way Possible”

“The Disastrous Wonka ‘Chocolate Experience’ Is Being Turned Into A Musical (In Addition To A Horror Movie)”

“A Moviegoer Was Caught Doing Something, Um, Well, Pretty Darn Lewd At A Showing Of ‘Love Lies Bleeding’”

“One Of The ‘Harry Potter’ Professors Doesn’t Get Why Adults Are Still Into The Movies: ‘They Should Be Over That By Now’”

“Stephen King’s Played ‘Mambo No. 5’ So Often That His Wife Said She Was Going To ‘F*cking Leave’ Him”

“Sydney Sweeney Opened Up About Having ‘No Control’ Over The ‘Weird’ Way People Discuss Her Body”

“Matt Damon Says His Daughter Won’t Watch ‘Good Will Hunting’ Because She’s Worried It ‘Might Be Good’”

“Ike Barinholtz Defeated A 13-Game Winner On Regular ‘Jeopardy!’ — Not ‘Celebrity Jeopardy!’ — And People Are Freaking Out”

“The ‘Godzilla Minus One’ Team Reacting To Their Visual Effects Oscar Nomination Is Just Beautiful”

“Relatable Icon Paul Giamatti Went Straight To In-N-Out Burger With The Golden Globe He Won For ‘The Holdovers’”

“A Family Spent $10,000 On What They Thought Were Disney Vacation Tickets, But It Was Actually On Disney+ Instead”

“Apparently Nicolas Cage And Lenny Kravitz Once Did A High School Musical Together (???) (!!!)”

“An Oscar-Winning Filmmaker Has A Bananas Idea For An ‘Erotic’ Version Of ‘Jurassic Park’ Involving Human-Velociraptor Love”

“Jon Hamm Worked With A ‘Dedicated Nippleologist’ To Create His Fake Pierced ‘Fargo’ Nipples”

“Before His Death, Matthew Perry Had An Out-There Idea For A Semi-Autobiographical Movie In Which He Was A Superhero”

Trending stories:

“People Are Flipping Out Over An Old Beer Ad That Was Bizarrely Edited Into A TV Airing Of ‘Star Wars’”

“People Are Mourning The Death Of Flaco, The Owl That Escaped From The Central Park Zoo And Thrived”

“Elon Musk And His Corny Panther Video Are Getting Roasted To Hell On X (Formerly Twitter), The Website He Paid $44 Billion For”

“A Full Video Of A BBC Anchor Flipping The Bird On Camera Shows It Was Just A Perfectly Silly Joke”

“Colombia Has Come Up With A Plan To Rein In Pablo Escobar’s Marauding ‘Cocaine Hippos’”

“People Online Are Losing Their Minds Over One Of Dakota Johnson’s Clunky Lines In The ‘Madame Web’ Trailer”

“Andy Cohen Is Begging CNN To Just Let Him And Anderson Cooper Drink On Live Television During Their New Year’s Eve Broadcast Again”

Politics:

“A Bar In Milwaukee Is Shutting Down During The RNC So They Don’t Have To Deal With Trump Supporters”

“Katie Britt Thought It Ruled That Scarlett Johansson Played Her In An ‘SNL’ Sketch That Made Her Seem Like A Hammy Creep”

“Rudy Giuliani Is So Broke He Jokingly (Or Not?) Asked A Newsmax Host If He Could Lend Him Any Money”

“Jake Tapper Had A Gaffe For The Ages, Accidentally Saying Trump ‘Engaged In An Erection’ (He Meant ‘Insurrection’!)”

“Acclaimed Independent Filmmaker John Sayles Said He And A Friend Took A Big Ol’ Whizz On Trump’s Border Wall”

“Pour One Out For Ron DeSantis’ Non-Starter Of A 2024 Campaign, But At Least He’s Endorsing The Guy Who Allegedly Came Up With ‘Meatball Ron’”

“Kevin McCarthy, Who Once Vowed To ‘Never Quit,’ Received A Humiliating Twitter/X Community Note After Doing Just That”

“George Santos, Knowing He’s About To Be Expelled, Has Decided To Go Out Calling One Of His Chief Tormentors A ‘P*ssy’”

“Trump Is Now Calling Corn ‘Non-Liquid Gold,’ Which Is Certainly A Strange Way Of Describing That”

“Trump Thinks The Civil War Could Have Been ‘Negotiated’: ‘You Probably Wouldn’t Even Know Who Abraham Lincoln Was’”

“Trump Does Not Appear To Know How Magnets Work In His Latest Surreal Brain Fart”

“Trump’s Super Mature Attorneys Compared Jack Smith To The Grinch In An Actual Court Filing”