I still remember the days when MTV actually played music, and the music video star was born. It’s hard to believe that era is behind us, a victim of the […]

I still remember the first time I stumbled upon the concept of what is auteur theory in film. It was in a dusty, old cinema studies textbook, tucked away in […]

I still remember the first time I watched Blade Runner – the way the rain-soaked streets of Los Angeles seemed to seep into my bones, the neon haze that clung […]

I still remember the first time I watched The Sopranos, and how it marked the rise of the antihero in TV. It was like a punch to the gut – […]

I still remember the first time I watched The Wire, huddled in a cramped, smoke-filled room with fellow music journalists, all of us buzzing about how The Wire changed television. […]

I still remember the first time I heard David Bowie’s The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust – it was like a cultural bomb had dropped in my teenage world, […]

I still remember the first time I watched Pulp Fiction – the way Quentin Tarantino’s dialogue danced across the screen, a mesmerizing blend of wit and brutality that left me […]

I still remember the first time I stumbled upon an image macro of Grumpy Cat – it was 2012, and I was immediately drawn into the quirky world of internet […]

I still remember the smell of freshly printed zines and the sound of underground punk rock blasting from a friend’s boombox in the school cafeteria – it was the epitome […]

I still remember the smell of old film reels and the sound of heated debates in the university cinema club, where my passion for the art of film criticism was […]