Mariana Fabian
Mari's love of film started when she first saw Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park (1991) as a young dinosaur fanatic. She went on to study Film at NC State University, which solidified her long-lasting passion for talking about movies and watching them. She connected with award-winning director Catherine Argyrople as a student, which prompted their creative collaboration in the feature film, Growing Pains (2024), which is available to stream on Tubi. Fabian is passionate about the preservation of physical media, as a collector of DVDs, magazines, and newspapers. She is inspired by the work of Cheryl Dunye, Jordan Peele, and Karyn Kusama.
The 10 Year Legacy of Barry Jenkins’s Triumphant Coming-of-Age Story ‘Moonlight’
‘The Wrong Girls’ Review: Dylan Meyer’s Directorial Debut Falls Short of Iconic, but Blazes a New Path for Female Stoner Comedies
FANTASIA 2026: Diego Fuentes’s Debut Feature ‘Matapanki’ is a Disruptive, Bold, Punk-tastic Masterpiece
Fantasia 2026: ‘Attack on Paradise’ is a Blood-Spattered Action Joyride to the Top Floor
Filmmaker Danny Bourque Discusses Wholesome Animated Short ‘Sunspark,’ Premiering at Fantasia Film Festival 2026
Milestone 30th Annual Fantasia Festival Promises the Best of Global Genre Storytelling
250 Years of the United States Through Film
Director Juan Carlos Mostaza Discusses Animation as an Avenue for Inventive Filmmaking for His Latest Short ‘Under the Lake’
40 Years of Saving Ferris: A Look Back at the Impact of ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’
Interview: Eddie Sánchez on Tracing His Family's Immigrant Experience in a Debut Tribeca Documentary
Interview: Lyle Lindgren's Love Letter to Grillz with 'Mouth Full of Golds'
EP 207: Resident Evil (2026) & Guess the Video Game Adaptation Letterboxd Review Game
EP 203: Speed Run Reviews of Maddie’s Secret, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, Tony, and It Ends & Venice, TIFF, and NYFF Previews
The Awards Tape: Ten Years of La La Land & The Legacy of the 2017 Oscars
EP 202: The End of Oak Street (2026) & Blind Ranking Dinosaur Movies
EP 199: The Invite (2026), I Want Your Sex (2026), The Career of Olivia Wilde & Guess the Letterboxd Review Game
EP 198: The Odyssey (2026) & Nolan Filmography Guessing Game
Pride Mini-Series: Queer Representation on TV
EP 193: Disclosure Day (2026) & Steven Spielberg Tier Rankings
Pride Mini-Series: Hedda & "Queer Bending" in Modern Storytelling
EP 190: I Love Boosters (2026) & Live Commentary: 79th Cannes Film Festival Awards Ceremony
The Awards Tape: Meryl Streep Awards Draft
RETRO//RECAP: The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
This review may contain spoilers. so nostalgic for me. maybe it’s because i am on my period but wow i started sobbing when gus and maria give them a house.…
Read on Letterboxd ↗back at it with papa, for an underrated film in Carl Franklin’s Devil in Blue Dress (1995). A neo-noir starring the one and only, who plays Easy Rawlins, an ex…
Read on Letterboxd ↗there are not often films that have an impact on me the way this one does. From the opening shot, with Little Ant’s voice to narrate, I knew I was…
Read on Letterboxd ↗i had a lot of fun with this, went in pretty blind as I didn’t grow up with Resident Evil, and I get pretty scared at That Kind of Game.…
Read on Letterboxd ↗no like it really upsets me that she doesn’t get with Olivia like girl I know Channing was cute and all that but you had so much tension with her…
Read on Letterboxd ↗i wasn’t into One Direction when they came onto the scene. Parts of me were afraid to be into a boy band, other parts just kind of thought they were…
Read on Letterboxd ↗huge blind spot for me on this one— back at it with papa for an acting masterclass in Fences. Based on August Wilson’s play of the same name, and directed…
Read on Letterboxd ↗back to papa once more with quite a weird one here— Bob Hoskins plays racist cop that eats like garbage, smokes and drinks and has a vendetta against a black…
Read on Letterboxd ↗it’s been four years since I revisited it, and I still think it’s pretty incredible. Notorious is such a fascinating watch for me, because it’s notoriously so subtle and understated. the…
Read on Letterboxd ↗back to brass with papa here: watching Tony Scott’s final film ever (pain.) — Denzel plays a grizzled, veteran train engineer, Frank Barnes, who like every other day, works his…
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