Category Archives: White Noise

What Fifty Shades of Grey will say about our culture

By most accounts, Fifty Shades of Grey isn’t a good book. It was born of a housewife in her mid-40s with a hardon for Edward Cullen typing a requiem for a sex life that was never this exciting, and that’s what … Continue reading →

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The Ballad of Spider-Man in Film

In 2008, Marvel took a chance on Iron Man as a proof-of-concept to fund and start up a long string of superhero movies that didn’t focus just on Tony Stark, but would also include Captain America and Thor and a long list of … Continue reading →

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Not what we had in mind

They’ve been talking about Ghostbusters 3 for 20 years solid now and nothing’s come of it, and after the death of Harold Ramis last year, nothing ever will. Having already made Ghostbusters 2 due to studio pressure despite writers Ramis and Dan Akroyd and … Continue reading →

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Selma snubs stun silver screen scribes

When it comes to the Oscars, both the winners of awards and winners of nominations have been purely political statements for as long as anyone can remember. Awards are garnered more on subject matter than quality. The Academy as an … Continue reading →

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The most important movies of 2014

Annual top 10 lists are stupid and easy and boring and no one likes them. On this blog, we try to track the path of movies over time, so instead of blindly stating what we liked and disliked about 2014 movies, we’re going … Continue reading →

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