Clever advert for Lifetime femicide of the week movie.
A delightfully clever advert from Lifetime: I can’t decide if the ♀ female sign inside the delete icon kills it or makes it. Also, the “LifetimeR...
A delightfully clever advert from Lifetime: I can’t decide if the ♀ female sign inside the delete icon kills it or makes it. Also, the “LifetimeR...
Romancing the brain: The classic psychological-anatomical comedy The Man with Two Brains is available for instant streaming.
Daft Punk do an excellent tribute to Vangelis and deserve every flower thrown at their booted feet. Speaking of camp, whoever at Disney is pushing their IP towa...
I had no idea the movie A Single Man was a black comedy, even after reading several reviews. I especially enjoyed the sequence in which the protagonist, George,...
Some movies, indeed some movie series, can be enjoyed starting with the final act on. Harry Potter is not one of them. Movies for kids now use techniques previo...
Fascinating, brief and polemical history of public media – now mass media – in the U.S., from the postal service to radio then television, etc.
A striking parallel from Peter Beste’s celebrated series on Norwegian Black Metal bands and Houston rappers: Archetypes of alienation.
Ana liked it.* I thought it was bordering on the absurd. A wish fulfillment scenario made for viewers with a very different set of concerns can feel like a fugu...
I had forgotten that Blade Runner is a movie about illegal aliens being hunted to death by a cop turned bounty hunter in a Los Angeles abandoned by anyone with ...
There are many reasons to love the 10 minute video Oops by Chris Beckman only one of which is that it can serve as a great reference for a discussion of the phe...
Based on a even more gruesome crime spree that began almost a decade ago, the movie Blind Shaft is a must-see dark satire about two cons who kill hapless migran...
In a short review of the new Chinese movie 1428, a reference to a macabre symbol of a massive cover-up: in 2009, the foundations of a concrete plant in Sichuan ...
If the left wants to convince voters the stimulus package was effective, it should focus on teaching Americans basic economic theory. Only then does it stand a ...
A few weeks ago I panned the movie Easy A as a teen drag performance and a bad one at that. Using teens and teen scenarios to tell adult stories is not inherent...
It’s hard to believe that I was born at a time when the city of Berlin was divided in the middle by a militarized border wall. The movie The Tunnel goes a...
We went to see the movie Easy A last night. Casting adults to play the role of teens is nothing new. Neither is writing adult dialogue for teens to recite. (At ...
Our society and economy would be much, much better off if debaters, especially on television, were able to call each others’ bluff with the simple use of ...
Reading Michael Heilemann’s celebrated investigation of how the character of Chewbacca was crafted, it struck me that movies are multi-player text-based v...
GQ revisits the making of GoodFellas: John Malkovich: It sort of came at a bad time in my life, when I wasn’t feeling well and didn’t want to think ...
A new video advert shows Uncle Sam digging a hole, deeper and deeper, as a woman with neutral English worries about our national debt. The woman mentions that t...