The desert is a landscape that filmmakers have used even before the advent of Westerns, I reckon, as a way for directors to convey their protagonists' emotions. From the hazy, parched and barren ...

Sirāt tells the story of a man searching for his lost daughter at a rave in the Sahara Desert. Though it carries echoes of ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

I promise, you don’t have to drive all the way to L.A. to celebrate film and queer community. The city of Twentynine Palms is home to a vibrant intersection of communities. It’s an entry point for ...

Ryan Heffernan is a Senior Writer at Collider. Storytelling has been one of his interests since an early age, with his appreciation for film and television becoming a particular interest of his during ...