Boys State Trailer: Your First Look at the Doc of the Year
First look at Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine's Sundance award winning documentary
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Becoming Trailer: Get Ready for the Ultimate Superhero Origin Story
Netflix’s new documentary Becoming offers an up-close and personal look at Michelle Obama and reveals her impact on everyday Americans as she embarks on a 34-city tour.
The Report Review
Is 2019 the year of Adam Driver?
No-Budget Nightmares #89 – Basket Case
Time for another No-Budget Nightmares treat, and they don’t get much bigger than Frank Henenlotter’s microbudget bad taste sleaze horror classic Basket Case!
John Madden on the Politics of Miss Sloane, Toronto as Washington, and Meaningless Oscars
We speak with director John Madden (Shakespeare in Love) about his new political thriller Miss Sloane, working with Jessica Chastain again, and the junk he finds hard to throw away.
The Tragic Optimism of Watch Dogs 2
Watch Dogs 2 is a much better game than the original, but it arrives at a time when everything else is getting worse.
The Passion of Uwe Boll
On the eve of his retirement, it's time to reevaluate the career of the most hated man in cinema.
From Right to Left: Ranking the Politics of Superheroes
Where do your favorite heroes and villains fall on the traditional political spectrum?
A Long Rant About the Sociopolitical Allegory of Supernatural
The first five seasons of Supernatural offer a powerful yet unintentional critique of structural inequality and the fallacy of the American Dream.
The Ides of March Review
With his latest film, The Ides of March, George Clooney reasserts himself as one of the best actor-directors working today. As a throwback to the political potboilers of the 1970s and 80s, Ides doesn’t break any terribly new ground, but much like Clooney’s previous directorial efforts it is a solidly constructed and tightly paced film with great performances from an all star cast.
TIFF 2011: Sarah Palin – You Betcha! Review
In Sarah Palin – You Betcha! British documentarian Nick Broomfield and his tiny team cozy up in Wasilla, Alaska to try to gather opinions and footage from Palin's friends, colleagues and even Palin herself. Two thirds of those goals do not go very well at all, and for some bizarre reason Broomfield lets you in on every production misfortune.
Top 10 Absurd StarCraft Campaign Promises
Meanwhile, in the world of Starcraft, recent elections to replace Emperor Arcturus Mengsk have already yielded some pretty strange promises from the campaign trail. Both candidates are now staggering as interstellar populaces search for a third party candidate who can better take care of them in a galaxy almost assuredly bent on their gruesome deaths. Collected below are some of the ideas being thrown around by the candidates, and while some remain very popular, all are most definitely absurd.
EcoComics: The Economics of a World with Superheroes
EcoComics is a hilarious blog that applies real world economic and political science theories to the universes of Marvel and DC Comics. The site discusses what the economic realities of a world full of superheroes and villains would be. Among the topics discussed are how the recession is affecting comic book characters and the propensity […]
