Running April 15th-26th the Tribeca Film Festival, NYC’s own Hollywood on the Hudson, has become a borderline unwieldy affair over the past few years. In addition to the usual film festival talks,...
The “Lost River” of the title of Ryan Gosling’s directorial debut is actually a submerged series of towns deliberately drowned to make a reservoir and pump new life into Detroit’s...
Conspiracies wrapped in conspiracies, wrapped in feather comforter investments, because winter is coming—and it may be too big to fail. Game of Thrones slammed back onto US televisions this week in...
The NYTimes recently ran an article about obese pregnant women. Written by an OBGYN, the article starts off with the ominous “One recent night on my delivery shift, eight out of 10 of my laboring...
Orphan Black’s third season is about to premiere, taking viewers directly into the tangled web of medical and human ethics that is a world in which human cloning is possible and two organizations...
If you somehow haven’t heard by now, the titular subject of the sensational (in both senses of the word) “The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst,” was arrested in New Orleans (registered...
Apparently unsatisfied with cripping up for an Oscar in The Theory of Everything, Eddie Redmayne is charging ahead in drag as Lili Elbe in The Danish Girl, a film purporting to be about the life of...
The Selma marches constitute landmark events in American race relations. The marches were organized to protest the continuing voter disenfranchisement of the African-American community in Alabama....
The Federal Communications Commission has just issued a landmark ruling to reclassify broadband internet services as a utility, over the protests of industry giants like Comcast and AT&T, along...
The 87th Academy Awards aired to a lacklustre audience on Sunday—the viewership was the worst since 2009—but it sparked plenty of fireworks, particularly over Patricia Arquette’s incredibly...
