Preview: Rectify
Sundance is furthering its exploration into scripted dramas with Rectify, premiering 22 April. The drama revolves around Daniel Holden (Aden Young), a prisoner released from death row after spending...
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Terrorism in Boston: Why Speculation and Sensitivity Matter
In the wake of the bombing attack on the Boston Massacre yesterday, one quote by the late Fred Rogers went viral. It said: When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would...
Review: Spring Breakers
Hieronymus Bosch is alive and well and living in Florida, bitches! He’s melding slobbering hunks of flesh into micro bikinis Brian Yuzna style. Two finger smiles, porn star tongues-this could be an...
FemFuture? A Few Reasons to Ignore “Online Feminism”
A new report just released by firm Valenti Martin Media called #FemFuture: Online Revolution recently defined Online Feminism as a movement that centers on “ umor, pop culture, fashion, and the...
The Slooooooow New Season of Mad Men
The sixth season of Mad Men aired on Sunday to rather a mixed response from critics; Alyssa Rosenberg at Think Progress probably put it most succinctly when she noted that: ‘The risk for Mad Men is...
“Herman’s House” Director Angad Singh Bhalla Discusses Solitary Confinement and the Angola 3
When one thinks of American torture tactics, images of men subjected to waterboarding in some faraway Middle Eastern country are more likely to spring to mind than that of an inmate quietly biding...
The Daylight Gate: Jeanette Winterson Goes Horror
Jeanette Winterson, The Daylight Gate. London: Arrow, 2012. Acclaimed English novelist Jeanette Winterson’s latest book is something of a curiousity. The book has been published by Arrow in...
Involuntary Sterilisation in the United States
On Tuesday morning, Twitter user auntie crissle (@crissles) posed the following question to her followers: ‘Do you think people currently on govt assistance (welfare, food stamps, section 8, TANF,...
“A series of endless stupid romances”: Doctor Who returns
Doctor Who came back from a brief hiatus this weekend with a rather unremarkable episode revolving around a plot to steal human minds over wifi networks in order to feed a mysterious client. Its main...
Recovering From an Obama Hangover in Palestine
What just happened? First, President Barack Obama landed in Tel Aviv—he stepped onto the tarmac, said “Shalom” and the crowd went wild. Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers saluted him and...