Alex Pagliuca

If the consolidation of the media industry doesn't result in the erasure or false scarcity removing the film and television from the first quarter of this century from public access, it's very possible that people in the future will look back on Nathan Fielder as one the indispensable voices, an acc

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas occupies an interesting place in the landscape of contemporary horror. She has been at the forefront of an academic movement treating horror and exploitation film as not just worthy of interrogation, but as important to interrogate as sociopolitical work. Moreover, she's ma

What makes this movie an enduring masterpiece, is that it's thesis seems to be, "America is a madness, and I want you to look at it, and experience it." And there's art that works in a more polite setting, but ultimately I think most great art is a punch in our complacent faces. That movie expands m

When we speak about the arts, most especially the popular arts (movies, books, music, television), one of the things I get tripped on is a consistent drive to hem them in. “This is art,” and “That is not art.” The most common version of this is to speak about art made with the perceived intent of be