The Lobster | Director: Yorgos Lanthimos | Rating: 10.5/11 Our society is fixated on couples: so fixated that is not uncommon for those who are not in a couple to be treated like outsiders. To remedy their sorry state, friends, family, and general societal pressures will force them into coupledom (even if they don’t wish to be in one, especially with the person they are […]

Murder at the 42nd Street Library | Author: Con Lehane | Rating: 8/11 | In Con Lehane’s first installment of the Raymond Ambler series, we find ourselves on our way into the iconic 42nd Street Library in New York City, past Patience and Fortitude, the lions standing guard and into an obscure second floor office, where Dr. James Donnelly is […]

Dorothy | The Echo (Los Angeles, CA) | May 10, 2016 | The name of their upcoming debut album may be ROCKISDEAD, but what the hard rocking Los Angeles quartet Dorothy threw down at the Echo testifies to otherwise. Gotta love it, God bless it and throw up your Dio sign and head bang to it because it’s a good music time to […]

Big Black Delta | Trágame Tierra | Rating: 8/11 | If nothing else, life can be a series of happy accidents…or a series of truly fucked up shit that you simply summon enough intestinal fortitude to suck it up and do what you can (and more) with what you’ve got. Feel free to make a “lemons to lemonade”/Bey inference if you have to. Go […]

Everyone Brave is Forgiven | Author: Chris Cleave | Rating: 7.5/11 | It is impossible to measure the impact that World War II has had on society’s collective psyche. While many of us grew up reading books about the mental anguish and physical devastation wrought by World War I – books such as Erich Maria Remarque’s classic, All Quiet on […]

Viva | Director: Paddy Breathnach | Rating: 7/11 | Viva, a hit of the 2015 Telluride Film Festival, focuses on many traditional themes present in many LGBTQ stories while maintaining a fresh feel. Set in modern day Cuba, Viva follows Jesus (Hector Medina) a young, gay hairdresser who works in a drag club that he one day dreams of performing in. As […]

It’s hard to deny that we live in a golden age of television. From complex anti-heroes on Breaking Bad and The Wire to razor-sharp satires such as Jane the Virgin and Unbreakable Kimberly Schmidt, television has become far more than mere entertainment. The plots, themes and characters have become as complex and nuanced as those in classic literature. Don Draper […]