"Smoking or non-smoking?” Is throwaway line by Hudson in “Aliens,” and one that is redundant in today’s homogenized society. Back in 1986, the future still reeked of fag butts and cancer. The...
On day thirty, power had clearly gotten to Russell’s head. He decided to tell Mick that he owns an oil company in Houston, which netted him 1.7 million dollars last year. Earlier in the game, if...
This week, “Survivor” returned after a short hiatus for Thanksgiving. After convincing Shambo to vote with them at the last tribal council, the Foa Foa four found themselves in the lead. The...
The 00s were a decade fraught with fear. They began with the millennium bug and ended with the growing debacle in Afghanistan. Like a downbeat Hollywood franchise played out over countless movies,...
"Precious," based on the novel Push by Sapphire, tells the tale of Claireece "Precious" Jones, an illiterate, dark skinned, fat, Black teenager who is a survivor of physical, emotional and sexual...
Despite the advances of modern science, we live in a world that remains captivated by the occult. We have put a man on the moon, cured many diseases that were once deadly, and live in a time of such...
This essay contains spoilers. There, you've been warned. Don't come whining to us later. As a writer, it’s easy to criticize. You can throw around rhetoric, slather your ideas in half-baked...
On this week's episode, going into the merge, the numbers were not in favour of the former members of Foa Foa. Their only hope was to exploit any existing tensions in the former Galu tribe. This...
Larry Gopnik is a serious man. Well he would be if he were given a chance. His wife Judith is cheating on him with a family friend, his son is in debt to the Hebrew school drug dealer, and his...
There's a moment in "New Moon," the new film sequel to "Twilight," the vampire teen romance, that perfectly explains the appeal of this series. It's between human Bella Swan, played by a thin and...
