Month: May 2017

Movies/TV Wonder Woman and the era of Butthurt

Wonder Woman and the era of Butthurt

People Online Are Getting Meaner, Which is Just Making it Easier For Us to Justify Hating One Another   Last week, when the Alamo Drafthouse theatre in Austin, Texas announced a Women Only screening of the upcoming Wonder Woman, Twitter became a microcosm of where we currently are as a human race. A lot of men …

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Seasons Archer: Dreamland – Season 8

Archer: Dreamland – Season 8

The Long-Running Animated Spy Comedy Takes a Swing at Condensed Storytelling, With Mixed Results   Stagnation, in television, is always the final stage before death. This is especially true of sitcoms, and a good reason why few manage to maintain a consistent quality after three or four seasons. Once you’ve explored all the avenues available …

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One Year On One Year On, #2 (2017)

One Year On, #2 (2017)

Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End and Overwatch   For avid gamers, May 2016 was a crowd-pleaser. Or at least, it very much wanted to be. Nostalgic FPS fans were treated to a revamp of DOOM, which seemed to tick all the boxes of the original: luridly violent, impenetrably stupid and irrepressibly fun. For RPG fanatics with literally nothing …

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52 Films By Women 21. The Secret Life Of Bees, directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood

21. The Secret Life Of Bees, directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood

Searching For Life’s Sweetness in The Secret Life Of Bees   Imagine living with the reality that, as a baby, you accidentally shot and killed your own mother! A little on the improbable side, but not at all impossible. And hey, this is America, where guns are practically used as dummies. Now, as a fourteen-year-old …

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Albums What Are We Supposed To Do With PWR BTTM’s Pageant?

What Are We Supposed To Do With PWR BTTM’s Pageant?

One of the Best Albums of the Year Has Been Plagued by Allegations of Sexual Misconduct, So is it Ok to Like It?   I feel strange even bringing this up, but here we go: about two weeks ago, the relatively unknown, vivaciously queer indie rock band PWR BTTM released their second studio album, Pageant. In …

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Seasons Master of None – Season 2

Master of None – Season 2

The Second Season of Aziz Ansari’s Early-Middle Age Lovechild is As Warm and Humanistic As Ever   One or two word signifiers don’t work for TV anymore. Usually. Yeah, Game of Thrones is a “medieval fantasy”, Fargo is a “crime saga” and The Young Pope is a “mindfuck”, but those are still fairly shallow descriptions of much deeper shows. And …

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Trump What Happens After
Donald Trump is Gone?

What Happens After
Donald Trump is Gone?

The Divide That Trump and His Ilk Have Caused Will Not Disappear Just Because He Does   A little over two months ago, I wrote my last piece that directly discussed Trump’s presidency. In that article, I said I was done writing about the bilious ham-sack known as Donald Jodorowsky Trump, barring “a significant public scandal …

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52 Films By Women 20. Whale Rider, directed by
Niki Caro

20. Whale Rider, directed by
Niki Caro

She’s A Feminist Without Even Realising It In Whale Rider   From out of the aquamarine comes the graceful body of a whale. In the quiet capsule of water, a sliding melody begins to echo the song of a whale. Raising the hairs on your arms, this haunting music wafts forwards, and a soft voice begins …

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