US Masterchef Returns For Another Helping
MasterChef is back on Fox for a fifth season of Gordon Ramsey’s yelling, Joe Bastianich’s devastating snark, and Graham Elliot’s kindly, but firm, criticism. We’re watching home cooks from...
Category: Arts & Literature
Review: 112 Weddings
What came first, the documentary or the wedding video? Doug Block has been filming weddings for the best part of two decades to support his work as a documentarian. It’s well paid but Doug tries to...
Game of Thrones’ Fantasy Misogyny
In watching Game of Thrones and falling in love with the worldbuilding, the characters, and the stories, there’s one thing that’s inescapable: the misogyny. This is not just a violent, brutal...
Review: Snowpiercer
Before the Internet stole our ability to dream, school kids looked in wonder through the pages of beautifully illustrated textbooks, littered with hundreds of scientific predictions by 1970s...
Review: Karen Joy Fowler’s We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
“Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.” (Albert Camus) Karen Joy Fowler is a writer that I thought I had not encountered before reading her most recent novel, We Are All...
Shock Value: Hannibal’s Explosive Finale
Friday’s explosive Hannibal finale left viewers gasping for the next installment of this tight, smart, and creepy television drama, proving that the production team still has the power to shock...
Is contemporary art effective in spreading awareness of climate change?
When I was in primary school, one of my first concerns was to save lynxes from extinction. There were no lynxes in the Italian costal town I used to live in - at the time I thought because they...
Review: Godzilla
In a house in San Francisco, Sam Brody, a 5 year old boy who dreams of dinosaurs. Waking from his slumber we see the cause of his phantoms, toy models that dominate the foreground of the shot. It...
Tumblr of the Day: Cats Contemplating Capital
For the Leftie in your life, a tumblr that pairs cats contemplating French economist Thomas Piketty's recent intellectual blockbuster Capital in the Twenty First Century, which has influentially...
2014 Upfronts: What’s Coming Up on US TV?
It’s upfronts time, when US networks present their 2014-2015 schedule to advertisers in a fierce bid for their dollars. With networks facing a changing world when it comes to how people consume,...