My Last Time

It’s been a minute since I last entered Disneyland. My first visit happened in 1965, when my mother was seven months pregnant with me. My second was around 1973 or 1974. The third was when Jimmy Carter was president, and Star Wars, now Star Wars: A New Hope, had dropped a month and a half […]

Nghi Vo’s Siren Queen

A certain figurative language about Hollywood has been circulating through human discourse since cinema first entered the world. “Hollywood magic,” for instance, refers to special effects or related techniques employed to illustrate desires and fears across the “silver screen.” This fantastical imagery occludes the malevolence behind the curtain, the industry itself, which receives metaphorical treatment […]