As there is matter and anti-matter, can there be film and anti-film? If the satisfaction of certain aesthetic and formal criteria can be said to make a film “recognizable,” what would an absolute failure to […]

As there is matter and anti-matter, can there be film and anti-film? If the satisfaction of certain aesthetic and formal criteria can be said to make a film “recognizable,” what would an absolute failure to […]
Last month, after four years of performative devotion, Lena Dunham admitted to abandoning her beloved rescue dog, Lamby, citing the animal’s penchant for biting her white concave ass. Controversial reports quickly surfaced from Lamby’s original […]
On Monday, in response to the New York Times‘s list of the Top 25 Films of the Century So Far, BPoFD announced its own list of the Top 25 Films of the Century So Far. Now, […]
Last week, The New York Times released its list of the 25 Best Films of the 21st Century So Far, with accompanying commentary from two of its better critics, Manohla Dargis and A.O. Scott, as well as […]
For the past seven years, the residents of New Jersey, our union’s greatest and most educated state, have been made a national laughingstock by their Republican governor, Chris Christie. Since assuming the office in 2010, […]
In summer the movie house is everything but quiet, its worlds all chaos, raging. Is the summer night like a perfection of thought? Not for the moviegoer, who shuffles from outside heat to cool theater […]
In Episode #23 of the BPoFD podcast, managing editor Carmen Petaccio sits down with Darri Farr, author of “Lena Dunham & the Magical Abortion,” to discuss the legacy of HBO’s GIRLS. Highlights include a deconstruction of GIRLS‘s faux-feminism, hypothetical musings about […]
by David Salinas Full disclosure: I haven’t watched GIRLS since the third season. I think. And I’m not sure it matters. The plot is so insignificant—characters shuffling between love, languor, and leases—that whole seasons meld into […]
By Darri Farr From the very first episode, GIRLS promised us an abortion. An early evasion of the topic takes place in “Vagina Panic,” when Jessa skips her own abortion to hook up with a stranger […]