Is There No Truth In Beauty?
One of the most basic – and pervasive – tropes around is that “beauty equals goodness.” The heroes are attractive, handsome men and beautiful women, the villains are have scars or other physical deformities. It’s…
5 (Unsettling) Things Skyrim Taught Me About Myself
On the one hand, I’m really happy that video games are a part of my life again. And it’s just icing on the cake that I get to share some of my wildly positive experiences…
5 Movies That Make You Want To Do…Something
The vast majority of movies are simply entertainment. That’s no knock on them; good, quality storytelling can nourish and provoke us in very real ways. And even ‘bad’ entertainment can still be fun as hell. …
“The One I Love” – How Do You Know Without Knowing?
Over and over, the one thing you hear about The One I Love is that it’s one of those movies where the less you know going in, the better. The trick with movies like that…
The Newsroom: What Kind of Day Was It?
Sick of my Newsroom posts yet? Well, this will be the last one. The Newsroom is over. It’s going to take some time to come to grips with the series as a whole; for right…
The Newsroom Stumbles To The Finish Line
Well, that happened. After all the praise I heaped on the show, and after the first few episodes of Season 3 were quite good (Episode 2, “Run,” was a brilliant piece of television), as The…
Did The Newsroom Suddenly Turn into The Office?
I’m loving The Newsroom these days. The third and final season is six episodes long, and we’ve got two to go, and so far, this is television at its best. Will’s glorious self-immolation is sad…
5 Classic Movies I Couldn’t Trick Myself Into Liking
Classic movies are classics for a reason. They’re widely recognized as important movies, movies of quality, movies that defined a moment in time. You can quibble about ranking, you can debate the way they stand…
The Most Uncomfortable Episodes in South Park History
South Park has managed to stay relevant and fresh, for the most part, for almost 20 years. It’s done that using a combination of being willing to re-invent itself (gradually morphing from pure sophomoric comedy…