A long time ago, back when the original Star Wars was released, in 1977, its introductory crawl of yellow text played on a mere 32 screens across America, and featured neither subtitle nor promise of additional episodes. Any […]
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BPoFD Podcast Episode #19: Talking Tarantino with Seaners
In Episode #19 of the BPoFD Podcast, managing editor Carmen Petaccio sits down with visual artist and film critic Sean “Seaners” Lopez to discuss Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight. Highlights include a retrospective of Tarantino’s work, excellent impressions of QT, […]
The BPoFD 15
These are the fifteen best movies, albums, television shows and books of the century so far, according to the Baby Pictures of Famous Dictators Editorial Board. They are presented below without comment to acknowledge the utter inanity […]
BPoFD Podcast Episode #18: Vincent Scarpa
In Episode #18 of the BPoFD Podcast, managing editor Carmen Petaccio sits down with fiction writer Vincent Scarpa to discuss his recent Twitter battle with Roxane Gay, amongst other topics of note. Highlights include analysis of The New York Times 100 Notable […]
What Rapper Should Endorse Hillary Clinton?
Last night, hip hop artist and activist Killer Mike, of the rap collective Run The Jewels, endorsed Bernie Sanders (I-VT) for president at a campaign rally in Atlanta, Georgia. Mike spent five hours with the candidate prior […]
The Strawberry Criterion: Master of None
In “Plan B,” the pilot episode of Master of None, Aziz Ansari’s new, execrable half-hour comedy series, from Netflix, two quirky New York singles make a trip to the corner drugstore, to buy the eponymous pill. Both […]
The Strawberry Criterion: Sicario
Midway on her life’s journey, a woman finds herself in a dark wood, the right road lost. By no choice of her own, she finds herself in Juarez, a city where even heavily armed women can […]
A New BPoFD.com
In October, it will be five years since Carmen Petaccio founded Baby Pictures of Famous Dictators. It’s amazing to think what fruits of his invention persist from that first post until today: hysterical diatribes, wrathful pans, interviews both […]
How Italian Is Carly Fiorina, Exactly?
Carly Fiorina, the former Hewlett Packard CEO who now stands–among her 15 male counterparts–as the lone female in consideration for the 2016 Republican Presidential nomination, has built an ascendent political career on the pillars of business savvy, […]
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