A Few Impressions
James Franco on 'The Bling Ring' and Celebrity Culture
How we feel about fame, what we’re willing to do to achieve it, and why we even want it, is a topic both fascinating and insidious. James Franco contemplates if the Bling Ring teens are just today's punks?
What of the Ottava Rima in Byron’s 'Don Juan'?
Parallels between the extensive and quasi-exotic love story and modern day graphic novels.
Universalising Art: 'The Disaster Artist' and 'The Room'
A book about possibly one of the worst movies ever made.
Annoncering
Jake Gyllenhaal Is the Perfect Gumshoe in ‘Prisoners’
Jake Gyllenhaal is back as a hard-hitting actor and I love it.
'Salò' Revisited
Pier Pasolini's 20th century take on the Marquis de Sade's 18th century masterwork of depravity might be stomach turning, but it's also staggeringly honest about the power and chaos of unchecked desires.
What We Talk About When We Talk About a Couple of Carver's Short Stories
Raymond Carver's back and forth with Minimalism.