Clockers 25 years on
When Spike Lee took over directorial duties from his friend and mentor Martin Scorsese, his intention for “Clockers” was to put the, “final nail in the coffin” of the Hood genre, the cycle of...
Category: Arts & Literature
Review: Clemency
Before watching Clemency, director Chinonye Chukwu’s meticulous dismantling of the death penalty in America, it is worth reading President Trump’s infamous 1990s full-page ad in The New York...
The impact of coronavirus on the artistic scene
The world of entertainment looks dark this year. A great number of events have been cancelled and large concentrations of people banned. Tours, competitions, performances and seasons ended suddenly,...
Recalibrate the media, reconstruct the system, reimagine the police: pointing the way through movies (and a podcast and a web-series)
With trust in the media, in institutions, in each other at a depressing low, it’s important to know how we got here - and how to flip the script. Which is why I’ve compiled an eclectic...
Mystic Quest brings us the quarantine episode everyone needed
While we’ve only just now hit the halfway point to the year, 2020 is already been pretty damned rough. As of writing this, various American cities are in the grips of massive protests and riots...
Midnight Gospel: this is your brain on podcast
Somewhere along the way, it feels like podcasts took over. There is a podcast for everything, and I do mean everything (if you don’t believe me, just google whatever obscure hobby plus the word...
Podcast Showcase: The Struggle Bus
Welcome to the next in our series of Podcast Showcases, where we share podcasts with you in the words of the podcasters themselves. This time, we talk to The Struggle Bus. Sum up your podcast in...
Tori Amos’s Resistance is a solid, insightful musical memoir
I am an unabashed fan of Tori Amos. I have been a fan of hers for over 20 years now, and although I don’t self-identify as an EWF—Ears With Feet, her term for her fans—I’ve seen her in...
Final Fantasy 7 Remake: between escape and crushing reality
I remember when I first played Final Fantasy 7 way back in high school. It wasn’t my first Final Fantasy like it was for so many people, I had vague memories of playing one of the SNES Final...
The Romanians Are Coming!: The nonfiction gems of “Making Waves U.S. Tour of Romanian Cinema”
Hard to believe that it’s only been a little over three decades since the people of Romania decided they’d had enough of their country’s communist strongman and rose up to topple his...