The Oscars Give Themselves a Black Aye
The Motion Picture Academy suffers from radicalization and confirmation bias.
Film & TV
Oscar Nominations Reflect the Academy’s Struggle to Regain Relevance
With a spate of box-office successes garnering nominations, AMPAS takes a small step toward solving its ratings problem.
The Great Forgetting
People still talk about Back to the Future and Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Princess Bride (but not E.T., the biggest hit of the 1980s).
Trigger Warning with Killer Mike
He decides to "live black" for three days, patronizing only black-owned businesses and limiting himself to products made by black-owned companies up the supply chain.
The Mad, Comic-Book Insight of Glass
M. Night Shyamalan looks through a glass politically.
Conan O’Brien Reminds Us to Remember Our Deaths
Comedian Conan O’Brien standardizes life, erases the earthly concept of fame and luxury, and reduces humans to the dust we’ll all one day become.
A New Cinematic Masterpiece
Never Look Away is one of the best films of the decade.
M. Night Shyamalan’s Most Intriguing Film Since Sixth Sense
Glass continues the Unbreakable saga.
The Wife Is a Trophy-Wife Tragic Farce
Glenn Close brings #MeToo to awards season.
Forget the Gillette Ad, This Is What an Attack on Masculinity Looks Like
If you want to see the difference between a rather awkward attack on truly toxic masculinity and a frontal assault on actual masculine virtue, then look no farther than this ...