Keeping It Real in the LHJ or What might The PJs be saying about urban leadership in low-income communities? Before the labyrinth of the internet’s shadowy caveats, cable television was the bastion of high-quality ephemera and there are…

The World Still Needs The Grind, or Why Pre-Millennial Dance Shows Were A Weird Kind Of Spiritual Experience For Me. Those pre-millennial dance shows: there seems something slightly sinister (or maybe just lightly unnerving) about them now.…

I've had several, what you might call, “meta” moments recently (in the cinematic mode). “Meta”, of course, is a term used when a situation approaches the limit of its ontological reality through some linguistic utterance (whether in form or…

*SPOILERS* I want to talk about Breaking Bad and House, two television series that have meant a lot to me over the past ten years and two series that utterly disappointed me in their denouement.  My issue is the indestructible lead…

Alternative Title: The Zellner Brothers Called Me Up at Two in the Morning And Hung Up The Phone Without Ever Telling Me Why: a review of Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter A Nightmarish Flâneur Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter has been marketed as a…

So, let’s talk about Bamboozled, a Spike Lee film from 2001.  I know that it’s kind of late to be doing a review, but I think some movies need reflection more than review.  Maybe the climate is right for reflection.  After the Academy snub…

I want to talk about the medical risks of seeing the movie Whiplash. Never have I exited a movie realizing ever more acutely the euphonious variety of mood disorders that I am suffering from. Daily existence should bring them out. It’s…

(and why I don’t know why everyone is so excited about it) So, let’s talk about the Michael Keaton film, Birdman. I can at least mention the name, right? Of course, it was way down on my list. I still hadn’t seen Ida and I was…