TV/Film criticism

• The danger of knowing one thing about the Central Park Five (The Week)
• What The Last Black Man in San Francisco, a movie ostensibly about gentrification, leaves out about gentrification (The Week)
• Game of Thrones at LARB (LA Review of Books)
• When Game of Thrones Stopped Being Necessary (New Inquiry)
• Who’s the Baddie? Captain Marvel in the Age of American Empire (LA Review of Books)
• Is Chernobyl historically accurate about the things that matter? (The Week)
• Game of Thrones’ Last Big Reveal (The Week)
• What Fleabag’s “hot priest” storyline gets so right about sex and love (The Week)
• Philip K. Dick’s Vision for Resisting Fascism in America (New Yorker)
• Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events: A Cautionary Tale for Those Who Believe in Comforting Lies (New Yorker)
• Westworld, Race, and the Western (New Yorker)
• The Hellish Comedy of Now: Silicon Valley (LA Review of Books)
• Post-Shawarma: On Avengers: Infinity War (LA Review of Books)
• The Westworld Rickroll (LA Review of Books)
• The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (LA Review of Books)
• Star Trek: Discovery (LA Review of Books)
• Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life (LA Review of Books)
• The Santa Clarita Diet (LA Review of Books)
• The Handmaid’s Tale (LA Review of Books)
• Stranger Things (LA Review of Books)
• Art during Austerity: On Mozart in the Jungle (LA Review of Books)
• The Good Wife (LA Review of Books)
• The Trouble with Calling Jessica Jones an “Antihero” (Pacific Standard)
• The Earnestness of Being Grantham: Anglophonia and Marital Inaction (New Inquiry)
• The Jimmy McNulty Gambit: Mike Daisey and the Thickening Crust of Our Awareness (New Inquiry)
• Lincoln against the Radicals (Jacobin)
• Daredevil and the Problem of the Not Bad (LA Review of Books)
• White Supremacy and Taylor Swift’s “Wildest Dreams” (Pacific Standard)
• House of Cards Should Stop Trying to Be The West Wing (New Republic)
• The Latest Westworld Reveal Shows It’s No Game of Thrones (New Yorker)  
• The Last Child Soldier: Beasts of No Nation and the Child-Soldier Narrative (LA Review of Books)
• A Snowpiercer Thinkpiece, Not to Be Taken Too Seriously, But For Very Serious Reasons (New Inquiry)

zunguzungu:

• Get Him to the Greek
• The famous Marshall McLuhan Scene in Annie Hall
• The Pipes of Sembene Ousmane
• Some Thoughts on Bridesmaids and the whole Bridesmaids thing
• Toy Story 3 and the Long Recession
• Generation Kill: Get Some
• Generation Kill, part 2
• “Generation: Kill” and Pieces of Flair
• The Valley of Elah is much, much better than The Hurt Locker
• The Hurt Locker’s Addiction to Detachment, and Ours
• Eat, Pray, Love
• Sublimated Misogyny In the Loop
• Avatar and the American Man-child
• Avatar and American Imperialism
• Ghostbusters
• Policing The Wire
• Inglourious Basterds and Prologue to that I.P. post, on Star Wars and WWII film
• Red October: the hunt for a way to win the cold war without negotiating with terrorists
• The Conversation about The Wire
• Mad Men and Transactional Sex
• The Worst Thing About Hell is Not Knowing You’re There (Mad Men)
• House MD Anti-Procedural Procedural
• Taking The Transporter Way Too Seriously
• What A Western Isn’t
• Star Wars
• Running on Karma
• Rushmore
• Billy Wilder’s The Apartment is a Fine Film
• Spockbama and George T. Bush
• Remarking on Seinfeld’s Pony
• The Breakfast Club
• The Karate Kid
• Capitalism, A Love Story
• Forgetting Sarah Marshall
• The Underdetermined Death of Uhuru
• Mau Mau and Charlton Heston’s The Jungle
• The Office, part 1: Does Jim Prefer? And Why Pam Does Not and The Office, part 2: Teaching Jim to Prefer and The Office, part 3: a Preference for Temporary Labor
• Quantum of Solace and Guilt Flavored Ice Cream
• The Abyss and Star Trek 4: With Friends Like These
• Shirley Temple: No One Gets Out Clean
• Aliens: Vermin, always Vermin
• The Godfather‘s Epigrammatic Accumulation
• Man on Wire and Burn After Reading
• Capitalism Makes the World Go Rounders
• Black Girl: What We Have Here is a Failure to Communicate
• The Proposition
• Spleen on Spleen: Why I think Altman’s The Long Goodbye is just teh suck
• Nostalgia for the Real: Manoel de Oliveira and Viagem ao Princípio do Mundo 
• Hancock and Arbitrary Violence
• Adam-12 had a baby (and named it McNulty)
• Braudel, Farmer’s Markets
• CLR James Disrespects John Ford
• Sergeant Rutledge
• The Colonialist Western and Putting an End to Realism
• Staging And Depth
• John Ford Goes to Guantanamo
• Dismembering and Remembering Mr. Lincoln
• The Unspeakable Pleasure of Killing Arabs
• The Movie of Shark Island
• Freaks and Geeks, part one
• Lindsay as Death-Bound Subject; Freaks and Geeks, part two
• What Millie Knows: Freaks and Geeks, part three
• Role Models and Playing: Freaks and Geeks, part four
• A Quick Trip to the Restroom (a brief coda)