Month: February 2017

52 Films By Women 7. LOL, directed by Lisa Azuelos

7. LOL, directed by Lisa Azuelos

LOL Can Mean One Thing or the Other in This French Gem   Let’s make this immediately clear that this is the French, 2008 version, and not the American remake. Not that I’ve even seen the American one (who knows, it could be better than what all those vehement critics are suggesting), but we all know that …

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Music If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late For Drake

If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late For Drake

It Seems Increasingly Obvious That We’re Living in a World of Drake’s Rapid Decline, Which is Sad But Almost Unavoidable   Three days ago, Drake’s surprise retail mixtape If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late turned two years old. In rap years, that’s basically a decade, and the interim has not been overly kind to the Canadian wonder …

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Episodes The Walking Dead, S07E09

The Walking Dead, S07E09

Mid-Season Premier “Rock in the Road” (alternative title: “Stick in the Mud”) is Very Much What You’d Expect   “Let me stop you before you break into song!”, cuts in Gregory when Tara starts giving a very typical speech for this show, talking about the resilience and strength people can exhibit when their backs are …

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Music Grammys Reward White Mediocrity

Grammys Reward White Mediocrity

Yeah, I’m Making This A Race Thing, ‘Cause How Do You Not At This Point?   A few hours ago, Adele took home the Grammy for Album of the Year for 25, beating out Beyoncé’s Lemonade. Last year, Taylor Swift’s 1989 won over Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly. The year before that, Beck’s Morning Phase won over another Beyoncé record, …

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Interviews Our Interview with Grim Streaker

Our Interview with Grim Streaker

Check Out Our Correspondence with the Burgeoning American Band Who are About to Make it Big   Grim Streaker are an up-and-coming, Brooklyn-based quintet whose music occupies the chaotic realm between punk rock, noise and skate anthems. Consisting of lead singer Amelia Bushell, guitarists Daniel Peskin and Micah Weisberg, bassist Bill Dvorak and drummer Piyal …

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52 Films By Women 6. Picture Me: A Model’s Diary, directed by Sara Ziff & Ole Schell

6. Picture Me: A Model’s Diary, directed by Sara Ziff & Ole Schell

A Picture is Worth A Thousand Disappointments in a Raw, Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Modelling Industry   We see the images, we see the clothes, and of course we see the models. Oh yes, those models who just seem to embody perfection. But what we never see? The untold story behind the image: what happened that …

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Trump Turnbull vs. Trump

Turnbull vs. Trump

Showing That We’re Just Gonna Have to Get Used to this Bewildering Freefall, Trump Kinda Bullied Our Prime Minister Over the Phone (Seriously)   About a month back, I wrote a piece containing some fairly reactionary hypothetical situations that could arise from a Trump presidency (you can check that it out here, if you’re interested). …

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52 Films By Women 5. Prophet’s Prey, directed by
Amy J. Berg

5. Prophet’s Prey, directed by
Amy J. Berg

Lock Up Your Daughters And Wives (All Of Them…) In Prophet’s Prey   The most affecting stories are often the ones that are true. It’s rare that you’re summoned into a highly secretive cult and in this case, thank the Lord, it’s only through J. Berg’s documentary Prophet’s Prey. The movie is a riveting exposé on …

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