Brookie McIlvaine

I'm an experienced writer and editor with a history in film, TV, book publishing, and magazines.

Private Life is a criminally slept-on New York City movie about hope, by Brookie Mcilvaine

Private Life opens on the lower half of Rachel’s body, expectant. She’s clothed in only underwear, supine in dim lighting, and a male voice asks from behind, “Are you ready?” A needle appears out of thin air, confirming that she’s not about to have sex, as the film’s positioning would have you believe; she’s about […]

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Art and science are symbiotic at Pioneer Works’ magazine “Broadcast”

Michael Jones has worked in many different industries — as a manager for Brooklyn synthpop duo Holy Ghost!, at Vice Media in the early days of online video, in the emerging New York City 2010s tech scene at places like Cameo and Dash, and then doing brand development for a company transforming small business lending

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Durga Chew-Bose Reimagines Françoise Sagan’s Bonjour Tristesse

In her book-to-screen take on Bonjour Tristesse, writer Durga Chew-Bose crafts a lush atmosphere as meticulously and stylishly as she did in her 2019 essay collection Too Much and Not the Mood. It’s not easy to adapt one of the more beloved pieces of 20th-century literature, and Chew-Bose had the additional shadow of Otto Preminger’s

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