Old Movies
Now that my cable provider has gotten ahold of a batch of old Samuel Goldwyn movies, no doubt at a…
Category: Critical Essays
The Layman’s Holiday
Happy Fourth of July, Readers! I hope you’re all enjoying hot dogs and lemonade in bright blue backyard pools, or…
Forever 27
April 5th marks the 20th anniversary of Kurt Cobain’s membership to that infamous 27 club. It is a club with…
All American Tragedy: What the American Pie Franchise Tells Us about Failing in Sex, Education and Work
In 1999, the first American Pie movie gave audiences a fresh and honest perspective of teenage high school life. With…
The Absolute Nothing of Binge-watching: A Symptom of an Ascetic Ideal
To fully understand the phenomenon of binge-watching, it would be best to take a look at where we are today:…
North Korea in Fiction and as Fiction
It is perhaps easy for Hollywood to portray North Korea as a fictional enemy when so much of North Korea’s…
Fuck Authenticity: The Sordid Life And Subtle Gestures of the Sex Pistols
At the age of fourteen, to the chagrin of my parents, I dyed my already bleach-blonde hair bright green. I…
Stop the City: Identity, Protest, and the Punks Who Occupied London’s Financial District in 1983
In the wake of 1982’s notoriously specious Falklands War, in the ominous shadow of a nuclear stalemate, against the backdrop…
Whose Hands are We In? Banksy’s Anonymous Success
“Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a fucking sharp knife to it.” – Banksy Over the years,…