Recapping the Oscars
Writing about an award ceremony when the world has bigger fish to fry does seem a little crass. Russian troops have fired warning shots at Crimea’s Belbek airbase and Kunming City in China is still...
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Review: True Detective
HBO continues its streak of cinematic, grand scope, big picture television with True Detective, which runs its season finale this Sunday after a short (eight episodes only) but critically acclaimed...
Review: Captain Phillips
Underhill, Vermont March 28th 2009. Captain Richard Phillips and his wife Andrea drive towards the airport surrounded by thousands of cars and trucks going about their daily business. Their...
Review: House of Cards Season 2
‘Hunt, or be hunted. Welcome back,’ Congressman Frank Underwood says at the conclusion of the first episode of season two of House of Cards, the Netflix drama that’s transfixing viewers across...
On Piers Morgan’s Transphobia
Janet Mock is one of the most visible, active, and outspoken women of colour in US media today. A former editor at People with a lengthy and impressive resume to her credit, she’s celebrating the...
Imported From Detroit: The Emergency Management of the American Dream
Another Super Bowl has come and gone and with it, the new staple of Super Bowl based commercials: the “Imported from Detroit” Chrysler commercials. Starting in 2011 with a highly successful...
The Best Bit of the Game? The 2014 Super Bowl ads
With the biggest sporting event in the US comes, of course, the biggest advertising event in an already ad-driven society. As US companies vie for attention in some of the most expensive advertising...
No Cheap Shots: HBO’s Looking
HBO’s new programme Looking seems to be attracting rather polarised responses: some are hailing it as refreshingly true to the lives of gay men in their 30s and 40s, while others are complaining...
Shia LaBeouf’s Bogus Journey: Is It ‘Art’?
Can you deflect criticism for plagiarism and ill-thought out Twitter escapades by announcing that your actions were really "performance art" all along? Actor Shia LaBeouf recently pulled, or...
Review: The Wolf of Wall Street
Jordan Belfort struts around his East Coast boiler room defiant. He’s a double-breasted Duce posing on the balcony, milking rapturous applause from his merry band of fucking idiots. “Stratton...