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 [...]
Film
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 [...]
The Gradations of Insincerity that Haunt Frederick Wiseman in the Night
On the highly-specific-yet–strangely-supple homage-cum-parody spectrum, Baz Luhrmann’s frenetic, bombastic melodrama maximalism sits at one end, and the smooth stylings [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
“Festival Express” – a highlight and review
“Festival Express” is a documentary following some of the most famous musicians of the twenty-first century, as they traveled across Canada on a music, booze and [...]
Gluttony Mise en abîme
I’ve imbibed Ancient Aliens sober many a times, probably an unhealthy amount. I get it: It’s an ambient, lulling salve, a comforting bath of ludicrousness, blinking [...]
The Lonesome Crowded West
Both Billy the Kid and James A. Garfield were fatally shot in July of 1881. Kid died at the scene; it took 11 weeks and sepsis for Garfield to kick the bucket. Separated by [...]
The Lobster: Authoritarian Body Horror
How exactly do you feel about housecats killing birds? Is this fine by you, or are you ardently opposed? And, if a train were hurtling toward a bus stuck on the tracks with [...]
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