Is Angelina Jolie’s Unbroken Racist?
Nobody can say that Angelina Jolie doesn't love her subjects. Watching Jolie's Unbroken, a WW2 drama about US soldier Louis Zamperini’s imprisonment in a Japanese labor camp, it was impossible not...
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Review: Syfy’s 12 Monkeys
Terry Gilliam is famous for his bizarre, fractal, mysterious approach to filmmaking, whether he’s adapting from texts like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas or developing original content. No matter...
Review: Birdman
What is it with back-stories? Every self-respecting superhero seems to need one and preferably the darker the better. The origin of this and the origin of that, why can’t they just be? Who said we...
Review – The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Thorin Oakenshield stalks the great halls of Erebor like a Shakespearian king, tragedy draped around his shoulders. This doom-laden cloak threatens to drag the King Under The Mountain into a quagmire...
On Loving and Leaving New York
One of the books on my New Year reading list is Sari Botton’s award-winning anthology “Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York,” whose contributors include everyone from...
Five Ways to Survive Awkward Holiday Dinner Conversations
You're headed home for the holidays, or you're the one hosting them. Despite best efforts, there's no chance that every event will go off without at least one person who is guaranteed to ruin the...
Hollywood Doth Protest Too Much: On the Sony Hacking Scandal
“This only guarantees that this movie will be seen by more people on Earth than it would have before. Legally or illegally all will see it,” tweeted Tinseltown’s box office sweetheart Judd...
Review: Hasidism Incarnate by Shaul Magid
What’s the difference between Christianity and Judaism? When one considers the shared cultural heritage of the Hebrew Bible (what Christians call “the Old Testament”), it seems in the end an...
Rewatching Firefly, Re-evaluating Whedon
The winter television hiatus in the United States makes for an excellent opportunity to watch old favourites — thanks to the short days and bitter nights, the prospect of curling up on the couch...
Why the #BlackLivesMatter Protests Matter In Michigan
When Michigan Governor Snyder first began installing emergency managers in different cities throughout the state, it couldn’t have been more deeply unpopular. The emergency managers came with the...