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As I sit here about to write this final piece for the April issue, I checked the COVID-19 scoreboard to see that the US has gone over 1000 deaths for the day, the most ever so far, but probably a normal figure for a number of days or months hereon in. The blame game is already starting, with many criticisms […]
With all new releases on hold and movie theaters closed indefinitely, the film industry is in a dire place. But delays are nothing new to Hollywood. Here are four films, delayed in their own time, that can help make sense of your new life under quarantine. Ad Astra When Disney executives purchased 20th Century Fox in 2018, they found they […]
If any character stands at the heart of Westworld’s narrative over its now three-season run on HBO, it’s Maeve (Thandie Newton). Over the past three years, the bordello-madame-turned-sentient-android, a creation of a faceless entertainment corporation, has awakened to greater ambitions than the simple genre tropes she came into being with, only to realize that there isn’t anything for her outside […]
“I am not interested in the kind of expression that you have when you paint a painting with brush strokes. It’s all right, but it’s already done and I want to do something new.” -Donald Judd (1928-1994) This quote from Judd perfectly embodies how the artist successfully changed the direction of the art historical canon, with the influence of his […]
Caleb and Frank like movies. Caleb and Frank are also snobs who think they’ve seen everything. Of course, they have not seen everything, and there exist a great number of movies that they have absolutely no intention of sitting through. But, trapped indoors and bored to tears, Caleb and Frank forced each other to watch the movies they’d otherwise avoid […]
There isn’t a human life on earth that hasn’t been affected by the coronavirus pandemic. For the first time in human history, there’s no other place to which we can escape. Here in New York City, many of us are quarantined at home. The nesting instinct isn’t natural this time of year when, through our dirty winter windows, we can […]