The Call for Women Directors
It’s no secret that Hollywood is distinctly lacking in female filmmakers, but the reality of the situation may still shock you. It’s not that there aren’t talented and [...]
Entertainment
The Film-Time Continuum
We are still awaiting the fallout from the Apple Watch. Whether or not it becomes fully ingrained in our culture, and an essential component of everyday life, remains to be [...]
Mad Max’s Mad Women (contains spoilers)
If you haven’t seen Mad Max: Fury Road yet, you’ve probably heard that it’s a nonstop car chase with with feminist overtones. That’s a pretty accurate description. [...]
Quantum Entanglement in the Modern Media Multiverse
Time travel is possible. Every conceivable parallel universe exists and is within reach. In them, all wrongs can be righted (or made worse, depending on your preference), [...]
The Last Unicorn Live-Action Dream Casting
I recently had the pleasure of getting to see Peter S. Beagle’s The Last Unicorn in theaters, and better yet, meeting the man himself! For many of us older [...]
The Jaundiced Pointillism of Rotten Tomatoes
The human mind is prone to shortcuts. We seek order, trends, simplicity; we look for patterns and simple answers to make the chaos of the world easier to comprehend and [...]
FOTB: Green-lit for Second Season
In case you live in a box and haven’t noticed, something amazing is happening to prime time TV: Diversity. Fresh Off The Boat, a sitcom based on the early life of Eddie [...]
The Shape of Film to Come: “…the feelies and the scent organ instead”
Though far afield from the cold, hard principles of physical science, the second law of thermodynamics holds in the realm of film. Film as a concept, as a form, as a field, [...]
Add One More Show to Your Sunday Night Line-Up (Spoilers)
That’s right horror fans, Showtime’s Penny Dreadful returned to TV last night with it’s Season 2 premiere: Fresh Hell. For those of you who are not familiar with this [...]
Mulier Ex Machina
“You’re a Woman, I’m a Machine.” With this statement, Toronto dance-punk duo Death From Above 1979 contorted, conflated, and reframed a central existential conundrum [...]
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