Good black comedies are hard to come by. Perhaps it is because any book, television show, or film that is both funny and includes something universally viewed as ‘bad’ is immediately relegated to the ranks. Someone dies? Black comedy. Someone gets dumped? Yeah, that’s probably black. Oh wait, does it include the government or anything […]
1. The trailer for David O. Russell’s next great film, American Hustle. I watched the video on mute, but I’m assuming the plot is two Hollywood heartthrobs, played by Christian Bale and Bradley Cooper, try to out-ugly each other with a beer gut/combover combo and a perm, respectively, and still manage to nab some bombshells […]
In the early nineties, when shows like Twin Peaks and The X Files reconsidered the use of music and sound for narrative storytelling, the approach was an anomaly. Rarely was this distinctly cinematic element appropriated for the lesser art that was TV, but there it lay, making stories the better for it. Now, some twenty years later, […]
If you are not aware, Smithsonian has a channel and they produce original content. Not unlike history as produced by Discovery Channel or History Channel, these are sleak and well made consolidations of information into very short amounts of time. Much of their content is available online in full episodes and I recently came across the […]
“Have a Nice Day” “Have a nice day,” Dorothy says while handing me change and a plastic bag full of items that should’ve indicated just how nice the rest of my day would be. I don’t know Dorothy, but I know her name because of the small tag pinned on her red vest. And I […]
