About
Pistachio's concession stand
a Richmond shawty transplanted in the DMV comma a researcher comma an avid pistachio-eater comma and hiker who breathes the cinematic arts and sciences
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In June 2018, the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative published a study “Critic’s Choice? Gender and Race/Ethnicity of Film Reviewers Across 100 Top Films of 2017” examining the disparities in representation and solutions to address the racial, ethnic, and gender gaps in the film criticism space. The study found that only 4.1 percent of all film reviews across the 100 most popular films of 2017 were authored by women of color, and women accounted for less than 9% of all individual critics. “Pistachio’s Film Reviews” is here to add a little “juice” to those rates and inspire others to create and fuel their passions.
Pistachio Jones is a public health researcher and avid pistachio-eater who breathes the cinematic arts and sciences. She credits her father for her love of film. As an adolescent, she rummaged through his eclectic and supremely diverse film collection, which included films like “The Royal Tenenbaums,” “Cooley High,” “Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo,” and the ”Star Wars” series.
Pistachio’s interests in the medium matured over time, challenging her perspective of the arts.
Jones credits her mother for balancing her challenging upbringing by allowing her to jump feet first into the arts: violin lessons, ballet, and covering her bedroom walls with scores of 10-cent thrift store vinyl album covers as a way to express the flairs of her mind. Her allowance was to be creative and eccentric, and she cashed in too many times to count!
Shouts to A.G., M.K., A.A., and H.P. for the almost weekly recommendations and for being film partners-in-crime. (luh y’all)
