The La Loma Review—title derived from where I grew up and what I want to do here—is my latest attempt at a clean slate. It’ll be like most of my work: A series of dispatches about cinema, with inevitable digressions into other media and contrived metaphors through various disciplines. Think of it as the Jonathan Kuminga of pop culture newsletters: You’ll find yourself constantly wondering when it’ll put all its pieces together, but it should be a ride regardless.

I’ve been writing about pop culture on-and-off for more than ten years now, and I’ve juggled it with my busy schedule as a corporate serf for the past eight (give or take a sojourn into grad school). I’ve been published on Bright Wall/Dark Room, Medium, and Barber’s Chair Digital. According to my editors, I have good taste and a solid grasp of grammar and style, but I need to work on my punctuality. Only time will tell if I’ve learned that lesson by now.

With that: Do hit that subscribe button, leave nice (or mean) comments, tell your friends (or your enemies, if you’re not a fan)! Give me some of that sweet, sweet dopamine, and maybe get a good recommendation or two for your trouble.

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Semi-regular dispatches about films, music, and whatever other cultural artifacts both past and present catch my fancy.

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Deany Cheng is a Filipino-Chinese writer, critic, editor, one-time film programmer, and occasional improvisor sun-lighting as a corporate serf on the weekdays. He also enjoys math, crossword puzzles, and making complicated Excel spreadsheets.