September 2024
Assassin’s Creed is ‘a treat for fans of terrible films’
There’s a treat in store for anyone who takes a perverse pleasure in seeing truly terrible films, because Hollywood’s latest video-game adaptation, Assassin’s Creed, is a Christmas turkey with all the trimmings. That may not seem too surprising, given that most films based on video games are awful, but this one isn’t a shoddy cash-in,…
Yep, Comey’s Decision Was Just as Bad As You Thought
Apart from the question of its impact on the 2016, we now have confirmation of just how bad a decision, how unjustified a decision James Comey made when he rocked the presidential election a week before election day. Every bit as bad as you thought. The following is from a former federal prosecutor with deep…
The Alt-Right Hails Its Victorious God-Emperor – The New Yorker
Hide CM floating unit I spent much of this fall listening, both online and in person, to the connoisseurs of ugliness who call themselves the alt-right. This is such a new category that no two people agree on precisely what it means or how many people fall within it. Some on the alt-right are committed…
A Book Deal for Pantsuit Nation, and Then a Backlash – The New York Times
Members of the secret Facebook group Pantsuit Nation gathered in front of the White House to take pictures and show support on Election Day for Hillary Clinton. Credit Al Drago/The New York Times When Libby Chamberlain, the creator of the pro-Hillary Clinton Facebook group Pantsuit Nation, announced this week that she plans to publish a…
Shadows of the Empire: The Best Star Wars Spinoff Before Rogue One – Thrillist
IN LATE 1994, LUCASFILM HELD A SERIES OF TOP-SECRET MEETINGS with Star Warslicensees. On the agenda: how to invigorate a lucrative movie franchise that hadn’t released a movie for more than a decade. Out of those brainstorming sessions — attended by Bantam author Steve Perry and representatives from LucasArts, among others — emerged a 25-page outline for…
Your Guide To Overthrowing Media In 2017 – The Establishment
FEATURE FEATURE December 20, 2016 by Ijeoma Oluo 2016 was the year that everything failed. A massively garbage year on the trash heap of history. This was the year that we took all of our society’s weaknesses, mixed them all together, put them in the oven, and ended up with a…
Why Children of Men has never been as shocking as it is now
Nothing goes out of date more quickly than films set in the future. Big-screen visions of tomorrow always reflect the era in which they were made – hence the disco outfits in Flash Gordon. Most soon become quaint relics rather than uncanny prophecies of the shape of things to come. But then, on the other…
The real reason grocery stores are running out of whipped cream this Christmas – The Washington Post
(Deb Lindsey for The Washington Post) If you were planning to serve whipped cream with your holiday desserts this year, you might want to acquaint yourself with the homemade kind. Thanks to a nationwide shortage of nitrous oxide, a critical ingredient in aerosol whipped creams, some major manufacturers have announced that they won’t be able…
The Case Against La La Land
“That’s L.A.—they worship everything and they value nothing,” sighs Ryan Gosling’s La La Land character Sebastian. I’m not sure if this is a critique or a mission statement. Perhaps it’s both. Certainly, a movie that forces you to endure Gosling and Emma Stone sing multiple songs is trading in the crass depths of celebrity culture….