Well, that was upsetting. The new documentary, Blood on the Mountain, about the coal industry’s insidious and nefarious relationship with the people and land of West Virginia, is an investigation into the corporate and political cover-up of a history steeped in exploitation and suffering. It’s also an indictment of the communities willing to trade that…
Like last year’s “The 33,” which told of the survival and rescue of a group of Chileans trapped in a gold mine in 2010, Lionsgate’s Deepwater Horizon, produced by and starring Mark Wahlberg (“Ted 2”), along with John Malkovich, Kurt Russell and Kate Hudson, relates the horrifying experience of another true life disaster culled from…
Well, Britain’s bombastic booze-loving fashion figureheads are back for some familiar naughty fun and frolicking, so committed “AbFab” fans can rejoice. So brace yourself “sweetie darlings” as TV-based drunken divas Patsy and Edina make their boisterous and cheeky return to the big screen in the off-kilter and shrewdly amusing, Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie. The movie…
Dungeons & Dragons. A fantasy mythos where people of all ages and from many walks of life come together to play with multi-sided dice and steadily build worlds of remarkable complexity and creativity in which elves, barbarians, warlocks, mages and dwarves embark on great adventures. A mythos that provides many with great pleasure and fulfillment…
The divas of dictation in the movies. Secretaries from all walks of life are called upon to please their bosses without hesitation. Sometimes it is a thankless job, but the duty never seems to end in terms of keeping thinking running smoothly for her/his superior as well as the other patrons they serve for the…
Climate change’s main drivers coincide with the main drivers of economic growth. We cannot have both, it seems. We do not get to preserve the Earth if we get to develop our economic prosperity in it. This is a dichotomy in all its height, an ill-conceived binary that produces nothing but contradiction and conflict, a…
“Et tu, Brute?” — William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act 3, Scene 1 Capitalism came into this world the same way in which every other system has been brought about: Through families. Yes, I know . . . you’re probably thinking that I’m full of shit, that I’m making things up, that I’m falling into gross…
