Leonardo Faierman

Leonardo Faierman is the senior film editor at Black Girl Nerds. Born in Buenos Aires, raised in Queens, Bar Mitzvah'd at Young Israel, buried under student loans. He writes video game, music, film, and movie reviews, as well as poetry, comic books, bad dreams and good copy. He's 1/5th of the comics podcast #BlackComicsChat and 1/2 of horror film podcast The Scream Squad.

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Sorry to Bother You
SXSW 2018 Premiere: ‘Sorry to Bother You’

Sorry to Bother You. A weirdly gutless, somewhat humiliating and feeble utterance spoken countless times…

Ready Player One
SXSW 2018 Review: ‘Ready Player One’

There’s a scene in Ready Player One, Steven Spielberg’s long-awaited adaptation of Ernest Cline’s seminally…

Pass Over
SXSW 2018 Review: ‘Pass Over’

Introducing Spike Lee’s newest film Pass Over, the presenter at the Alamo Drafthouse cited another of…

Unfriended: Dark Web
SXSW 2018 Review: ‘Unfriended: Dark Web’

There’s something unusually intimate about watching somebody’s computer screen when they’re not looking, being a…

Anna Deavere Smith
BGN Interview: Anna Deavere Smith

It’s always interesting to interview an interviewer. Not because they’re cagey—quite the opposite. They’re too relaxed.…

Notes From The Field
BGN Film Review: ‘Notes From The Field’

Anna Deavere Smith’s Notes From The Field begins abruptly, presenting its establishing theme and pattern,…

Annihilation
BGN Film Review: ‘Annihilation’

Annihilation. Apart from the euphonious gallop of the word itself, there’s very little communicative in…

Tessa Thompson
BGN Interview: The Tessa Thompson Rule

Turns out, Tessa Thompson is exactly as wonderful as you think. With a diverse resume…

Tom Hardy is Eddie Brock in the Newest ‘Venom’ Trailer

Venom‘s road to release has been plenty mysterious, with sneaky teasers trickling out, and very…

Iconoclasts
BGN Game Review: ‘Iconoclasts’

Eight years. I can’t fathom what that must be like for a lone indie developer…