Are US Procedurals Getting Boring?
As US television moves towards May sweeps, the inevitable discussion over bubble shows is beginning to percolate through gossip sites and trade magazines. Everyone wants to know which shows are in,...
Category: Themes
Becoming a Police State Will Not Make Turkey Safer
In Turkey as of late there are increasing fears among many Turks that their country is devolving into a police state. In the wake of the 2013 protests which gripped the country and the more recent...
Three Must-Sees at the Tribeca Film Festival 2015
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,...
Review: Lost River
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...
Is Game of Thrones Getting Too Bloated?
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...
Talking About Obesity Isn’t Taboo: Food Justice Is
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...
Review: John Wick
“Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries-for heavy ones they cannot.” Russian mob boss Viggo clearly hasn’t brushed up on his...
The Palestinians of Yarmouk: Haven’t They Suffered Enough?
After enduring unimaginable horror, pain and suffering it seems the worst has yet to come for those 18000 Palestinians, a reported 3500 of whom are children, who remain huddled among the debris of...
Orphan Black: An Allegory For Reproductive Rights
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...
Jarecki Family Values: Power and Privilege in “The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst”
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...