Art is art and science is science, or so the world has been led to believe. Some artists think they are social scientists and some scientists find their work to be art. And then there is Soft Matter, coming to VOD Tuesday, May 22, 2018...
After an extremely awkward moment at her birthday party, family pariah Moll (Jessie Buckley: War & Peace series, Taboo series) bolts for her house. Eager to forget her family’s fake sentiment, Moll grabs a drink but cracks a glass. Collecting the pieces in her hand,...
One constant in American cultural life is that when it comes to the wealthiest among us, people either love or hate them. Middle-class Americans will watch them on TV or read about them on the internet. They will either be enamored by opulence and its...
Cults seem to be having their moment in the American zeitgeist. There are the television series Waco and Wild Wild Country. There is the burgeoning story of Smallville’s Allison Mack and her involvement in the sex cult Nxivm. There is the constant talk around “cults...
“Give a man a mask and he will tell you the truth,” a seeming proverb reads, curiously scrawled on a diner chalkboard where one may instead see the daily special. Truth is a strange concept in a world populated by human beings defining their realities...
It is the year 2030 and the United States has fallen into chaos thanks to a moribund economy and the ravages of global warming. Amid these crises, an organization is given the power to determine whether or not American citizens are productive enough to remain...
Right as the credits for You Were Never Really Here start rolling across the screen, there is a cacophony of noise. It is actually even before the credits appear. It is when the screen is still black. This noise assault only hints at what is to...
It is probably not a stretch to say the majority of internet readers visit news publications, among other websites, mostly on their smartphones. The technology is ubiquitous. It is almost a cliché to bring attention to it anymore. Enter social media. Every time a user...
In 2013, Guillermo del Toro’s love letter to anime giant monster-robot smashups Pacific Rim burst on the scene. It was warmly welcomed for the most part. Audiences did come away with mixed feelings, though. Some fans had high enthusiasm for the sci-fi spectacle. Others were...
Mario Bava. Dario Argento. Lucio Fulci. These names pop up when Italian Giallo Horror is on the mind. Known for blood, bombast, and visual extravagance, Giallo terrifies as well as mystifies. These names come out from the past. Who are the filmmakers treading new ground and...
