Criticism-in-finity!
Posted in Reviews on Jul 27th, 2011
If you’re a lady with an office job in the United States, most days you probably only think about the patriarchy eighteen to twenty times, tops*. From the perspective of your grandmother and of ladies without office jobs, this rate is “progress.” Other days, you’re reading the Internet on your lunch break, and everybody with [...]
Posted in Reviews on Jul 11th, 2011
The hotel: at once a space both public and private, each door along the anonymous hallway leading to the domestic security of consumer and business culture. As a guest in any hotel we are everyone, and never exactly ourselves. For the spy thriller, the hotel is a necessary trope: it is a meeting ground (accidentally-on-purpose) [...]
Posted in Reviews on Jul 6th, 2011
The entertainment industry’s preoccupation with multiples is by no means a new thing; for example, there have been so many multiples-siblings movies that they can be divided into various subgenres. You have your multiple movies that take much of their conflicts from the fact that there are multiples in them (there’s more than one!?), such [...]