Pop culture consumers may be devoted, but all that adulation can turn to outrage with the slightest of provocations
Movies
The Latest TV Trend: Autism
It’s great that diversity is extending to the neurological, but there’s a danger in portraying those on the spectrum as inherently miraculous
Why You Keep Seeing the Same Movie Over and Over Again
There is no end to the lengths Hollywood will go to make a major theatrical release that can be summed up in a poster
Is The Help the Most Loathsome Movie in America?
I’m not sure why so many people flocked to spend hours in this world of American apartheid. For me, watching The Help was like visual waterboarding. Still, Viola Davis should win the Oscar for Best Actress
Nostalgia: Our Favorite Cultural Copout
What Adele, Woody Allen and Newt Gingrich have in common and why we can’t stop romanticizing the past
The Garry Marshall Plan
Is the director of New Year’s Eve and Valentine’s Day trying to take over movies with the equivalent of the toilet read?
Iranians: As Unhappy As We Are
Why a movie about a dissolving marriage in Tehran might help American-Iranian relations more than any diplomacy
Will Pixar’s First Female Lead Break the Mold?
Princess Merida is a Pixar princess but a princess nonetheless
Who Speaks for the Trees?
Why, Dr. Seuss, of course. But will a new movie adaptation of The Lorax speak to a new generation of children?
Father Knows, Well, Not Best
What George Clooney’s portrayal of a struggling dad in The Descendants says about modern fatherhood
The Harsh Bigotry of Twilight-Haters
Why is it that female fantasy is so derided and feared?
Children’s Movies Have Too Many Orphans
Parental separation makes for a great plot point, but try telling that to a parent of an adopted child
In Defense of Movie Remakes
Those familiar titles you’re seeing on theater marquees are a sign of good stories, not creative bankruptcy