Andrew Truong
Andrew Truong is a writer and pop-up chef based in New York. Most of his writing about film and food can be found on his newsletter Buttered Popcorn. Each year, his crowning achievement is a ten-course Oscars dinner party, where each dish is themed to a Best Picture nominee.
By Andrew Truong
| October 3, 2026
Equally indebted to Magnolia and Dreamgirls, Misty Green strives to be a multi-faceted character study revealing the dark underbelly of Los Angeles, where artistic ambitions run up against financial need.
The very existence of this brash film, which reveals the hearts of darkness at the center of Cuba’s cultural institutions, is proof that creative expression may be hindered, or sometimes stalled, but it can never be stopped.