Time to call it a wrap on Black History Month (until June, in which we celebrate Black Music) with something else different yet again: the black versions! There has always been a mainstream (read:...
Long hailed as France’s most famous – and controversial – public intellectual, Bernard-Henri Lévy has been making waves through his writing and speaking (and outsized personality) since his...
Well, if your Black History (Awareness) Month hasn’t been poppin’ so far, maybe you need a little bossa nova. I want to widen the scope a little outside of America and take in one of my favorite...
Bill Maher is one of those entertainment figures who seems able to sidestep any controversy. His random drop of the n-word last year interviewing Nebraskan Senator Ben Sasse, for instance, would have...
Watching ESPN’s documentary on Vince McMahon’s infamous failed football league, This Was the XFL, struck me in a lot of ways. In part because it’s an excellent and slickly-produced film, but...
I can’t think of a more perfect genre than spy thrillers to immerse myself in for the winter. Time to come in from the cold, in every sense of the term! Spy films are a bit of a personal cult...
Well, it’s January and you know what that means… time to hit the Oscars trail yet again! Sigh. Let’s get the journey over with. If you’re not feeling terribly enthused about the season, join...
January 18 is International Fetish Day and that’s more than enough reason for me to share some of my favorite kinky films! And yes, this is space that is safe from both fifty shades of anything and...
While coming back to favorite TV shows is always something to look forward to in any new year, there’s something special about discovering fresh series that you end up loving. Much like opening...
Thanks to Canadian filmmakers Mark Archbarand and Jennifer Abbott’s 2003 doc The Corporation (which was subsequently turned into the book The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and...
