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No Accounting for Taste

No Accounting for Taste – The Right Wing Batman

By Adam Boffa • October 5th, 2017

In Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight Rising, progressive politics gets dressed up in the costume of a terrorist super villain.

a dark haired Japanese man leans up against a car, a large rock formation cutting like a ribbon across the sky in the background. This is a still from the game Final Fantasy XV.

The Unspoken Glory of Tardiness

By David Shimomura • September 25th, 2017

Coming to things late lets you take it at a pace all your own, a pace dictated by nothing more than how you feel on that day or in that week.

Jennifer Lawrence, long blonde hair hanging around her face, stares directly to camera in this still from mother!

mother! is bullshit

By Amanda Hudgins • September 18th, 2017

I say this because I understood Darren Aronofsky’s mother! and it was bullshit.

Red lips in a white face with a ruffle behind, a red balloon partially consider the face. This is a still of Pennywise from It.

2017’s It Isn’t Scary, It’s Frightening

By David Shimomura • September 11th, 2017

It’s strangest quality as a film is that it’s a horror movie that is simply not very scary. While the line between scary and not is porous, subjective, and obtuse, it’s up to a movie to either define its terms or define itself in relation to existing ones.

Documentary Sunday

Nobody Speak

By Megan Condis • August 31st, 2017

What ya gonna do when the forces aligned against the freedom of the press run wild on you?  Let’s hope we don’t have to find out.

The Burnt Offering

Nostalgia Bomb

By Stu Horvath • August 18th, 2017

Nostalgia is the bottomless pit into which we willingly throw ourselves.

Fascination

On A Lizard in a Woman’s Skin

By Astrid Budgor • August 14th, 2017

“The truth comes to light in very odd colors.”

Idris Elba in a long coat and a shoulder holster, walking with a young boy through a yellow brown field. This is a still from the movie the Dark Tower.

The Dark Tower and the Razor’s Edge of Mediocrity

By David Shimomura • August 14th, 2017

The Dark Tower does something few other films are able to accomplish, it’s a perfectly “alright” film. It sits comfortably on the razor’s edge of mediocrity,

Rooney Mara, a dark haired white woman, stands looking out to the right, as seen through a window. This is a shot from the film Ghost Story.

A Ghost Story isn’t great it’s just slow

By Amanda Hudgins • August 8th, 2017

A Ghost Story is the kind of intellectual garbage a friend takes you to and insists it’s capital I Important.

Documentary Sunday

Weiner

By Megan Condis • August 2nd, 2017

“Like Huma, the film encourages us to step back and look at politicians like these with ‘a mixture of contempt and sadness.'”

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