Every two years or so I watch Oliver Stone’s 1995 political masterpiece Nixon. Stone is one of the few directors who’s director’s cuts are arguably better than his theatrical releases — which are also damn good. The DC of Natural Born Killers includes an extended sequence of the prison…

AMC’s Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire is not Anne Rice’s Interview with a Vampire. There is a Louis and a Lestat, sure. But something is missing. Something as vital as the undead’s need for living human blood. The problem is not that AMC’s Vampire is almost completely unconnected fan…

The problem of identity politics is that it presupposes that identities exist. I don’t think they exist. — Žižek “Identity” (in this case: a set of physical, psychological, and historical features that come together to create an inner and outer gestalt that engages in the inner psyche and the outer…

Hulu’s much anticipated new Hellraiser reboot is as boring as it is gross. Going into it I was hoping for some fresh hell indeed, but ended up getting more of a dull purgatory instead. Sadder still, its the kind of movie you can fast forward through and still not miss…

Don’t Look Up is about how mass media, politics, and capitalism naturally slither together, co-conspiring to create false realties, ideologies, and agendas in order to assuage humanity from recognizing that, quite simply, we are all in very big trouble. In this film, the big trouble is an extinction level event…

Fiona, Guy, and co. have once again cut a chunk out of the contemporary American Rock and Blues scene with weirdly seeming ease. The chemistry in Silver’s teams are always full-frontal fuck off good talents that seem to do nothing else but blast out jammers. …

This is not a joke. The modern trend of using the dried out, cliche, hackneyed, lazy, thoughtless, worthless, irritating, belittling, bullshit headline ‘we need to talk about’ must come to an immediate and violent death—thrown into the dustbin of literature as soon as humanly possible (if you can call blogging…