Like Napster back in the day, streaming (and pirating) has been allegedly killing the film business for a decade plus. It’s actually not, but that’s the latest thing for us to shake our fists at...
Time to call it a wrap on Black History Month (until June, in which we celebrate Black Music) with something else different yet again: the black versions! There has always been a mainstream (read:...
Long hailed as France’s most famous – and controversial – public intellectual, Bernard-Henri Lévy has been making waves through his writing and speaking (and outsized personality) since his...
Well, if your Black History (Awareness) Month hasn’t been poppin’ so far, maybe you need a little bossa nova. I want to widen the scope a little outside of America and take in one of my favorite...
Bill Maher is one of those entertainment figures who seems able to sidestep any controversy. His random drop of the n-word last year interviewing Nebraskan Senator Ben Sasse, for instance, would have...
Watching ESPN’s documentary on Vince McMahon’s infamous failed football league, This Was the XFL, struck me in a lot of ways. In part because it’s an excellent and slickly-produced film, but...
The first lyrics that Sharon Van Etten sings on her new album are “Sitting at the bar, I told you everything / You said, ‘Holy shit, you almost died.’” Her singing is framed by harsh, echoing...
As I watched videos of Resident Evil 2 with a female friend before release we saw one of the two protagonists be chased, grabbed and clubbed by a huge indestructible masculine creature in a trench...
I can’t think of a more perfect genre than spy thrillers to immerse myself in for the winter. Time to come in from the cold, in every sense of the term! Spy films are a bit of a personal cult...
Well, it’s January and you know what that means… time to hit the Oscars trail yet again! Sigh. Let’s get the journey over with. If you’re not feeling terribly enthused about the season, join...
