Spooky Action at a Distance
Behind a dark fold in the depths of every person’s subconscious, there’s carnival music and a candy-colored clown they call “The Sandman.” This recess harbors a [...]
Entertainment
Taxi Driver Revisited: 40 Years Later
2016 marked the 40th Anniversary of Martin Scorsese’s neo-noir film about Travis Bickle’s gradual descent into madness, played by Robert DeNiro. The violence, [...]
Don’t Make Mulan White, Make Mulan Right
After thousands of worried fans signed petitions and took to Twitter with the hashtag #MakeMulanRight to protest Disney’s whitewashing of Mulan’s live-action remake, the [...]
Whiplash and The Beethoven Effect
“ ‘Good Job’ are the two most harmful words in the English language,” says fictional Jazz conductor Terrence Fletcher in 2014’s Whiplash, an explosive film that [...]
Blood-Brain Barrier
In 1960, Nixon’s sweaty upper-lip squared-off against Kennedy’s impeccable hair. For all intents and purposes, the merciless gaze of the TV cameras swung the presidential [...]
Don’t Starve: The Life of Indie Games
You are low on food and starving. Your sanity is wearing thinner and thinner, and there are movements in the dark you are sure are getting closer every night. The landscape [...]
Pablo Escobar Normcore Chic
’90s nostalgia is either flourishing or metastasizing, maybe both. We’re right in that meaty part of the twenty-year curve, an odd time indeed—hitting stride, [...]
TV Echolalia & Thaw
It’s said that humor happens when we’re told “the truth quicker and more directly than we’re used to.” What if it’s slower? Or garbled? Or purposely aloof? Or [...]
Kubo and the Infinite Regress
On Shaking the Habitual, The Knife scrawled bellicose, rhythmic, culture clashing, humanistic, Salt-N-Pepa-and-Fugazi-referencing, irradiated cave paintings. Theirs had [...]
The Magisterial Grace of a Potato-Shaped Adonis
Mid-gallop, a horse’s hooves, all four, are suspended in mid-air—this much we now know. Sallie Gardner at a Gallop—Eadweard Muybridge’s proto-slo-mo, proto-film [...]
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