A few things I learned from Sharknado and its aftermath. 1. You can cut a shark in half with a chainsaw while it’s flying through the air. 2. You can kill a shark from the inside with a chainsaw after it envelopes you midair, magically not killing your girlfriend-to-be who is inside the shark, unharmed, so you […]
1. Tonight on BBC America is the third season (“series,” per our British brothers and sisters) finale of Luther, the excellent cop drama starring Idris Elba. If you haven’t caught this season, get a move on. If you haven’t watched Luther at all, what are you waiting for? And if you don’t know who Idris […]
With Jonathan Glazer presenting his newest feature recently, I’ve been retreading past work, excited by what this new venture may be. So for this week’s topic I want to look back at some of the great work he’s given us beyond the silver screen. This week’s topic: Jonathan Glazer 1. UNKLE (featuring Thom Yorke) – Rabbit […]
Since 2000, cinema has had a gift in Jonathan Glazer. Music video director extraordinaire for bands such as UNKLE, Radiohead, Massive Attack, and Blur, he hit the scene running with Sexy Beast and rewrote the rule book with his astounding Birth. But that was a long time ago, and while he’s kept to the grind with music […]
As you may have gathered from my piece about Harold & Maude, there is a handful of art that connects me to a particular girl—specifically, to a shitty breakup. Neko Case’s previous album, Middle Cyclone, is another. The album was brash and empowered, wild, a nearly literal force of nature. High emotion is probably how […]
