Martin Chulov of The Guardian newspaper got quite the scoop the other day. He got to interview a top-ranking member of the Islamic State (also known as ISIS) terrorist group, Abu Ahmed. Ahmed...
The minute the familiar opening montage of Twin Peaks flashes across the screen as I settle back to watch the pilot, I can feel my eyes tingling with nostalgia. The music swells, and we’re swept...
After reading this review and when you sit back to watch the box set of “Gomorrah The Series,” take some time out to remember just how much some writers have to suffer for their art. Back in 2006...
GamerGate’s toxic torrent has been at once enfeebling and enervating. Its furious assault on, chiefly, women in games and those who espoused anything approximating feminist views therein has had...
“Someone hums a muted tune, a lullaby from another planet. Then the line goes dead.” Insofar as this year’s Booker longlist has a theme or themes (other than “Life! What does it all MEAN!”...
Director David Michôd’s dystopian Western “The Rover” is a Spartan, intimate affair played out over vast distances in the Australian outback. Set ten years after a global economic collapse the...
It’s hard for us, in these enlightened days of 2023, to remember how dark the future once looked for the state of stupid action movies. Even as late as 2014, those of us who enjoyed our movies...
Big data is a big deal and Americans are of two minds about it. In this case, though, the division of attitudes doesn’t break along the expected good/bad line. Instead, American attitudes about it...
I was surprised by Maleficent. I was expecting to be sorely disappointed, given the predictability of mainstream media that leaves us low bars like, 'a single strong female character'! After the...
Truly, there’s absolutely nothing more embarrassing and awkward than running into poor people in the halls of your own apartment building. It’s bad enough that they have to live there in the...
