The Last Man on Earth, whose first season finale aired two Sundays previous, on FOX, theoretically could be–and arguably should be–sued for false advertising, for the high concept bait-and-switch it perpetrates at its own expense. […]
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The Strawberry Criterion: To Pimp A Butterfly
Musicians faced with great expectations have a tendency to disappear up their own asses. Either out of courage or cowardice, albums like Low, In Utero, Kid A and Yeezus consciously subvert the sound for which their predecessors won acclaim, garnering in those […]
The Strawberry Criterion: Chappie
Editor’s Note: The following review of Neill Blomkamp’s Chappie was written by the fictional robotic star of Chappie, Chappie. All opinions expressed are his own. The Strawberry Criterion: Chappie Chappie good movie, no? Chappie like. Chappie seen it. […]
The Strawberry Criterion: 50 Shades of Grey
Boredom isn’t particularly titillating. If a simple imperative exists for both fucking and filmmaking, it can summarily be expressed as, “Don’t be boring.” This principle applies doubly so to making films about fucking. A great force of […]
The 2014 BPoFD Chill of the Year: Honorable Mentions
Bonafide chills were few and far between in 2014. Subtle fraudulence belied even the most promising candidates, with perennial chills like Chris Pratt and Bill Cosby falling prey to corporate subjugation and being a rapist, respectively. At […]
An EXCLUSIVE Excerpt from Jonathan Franzen’s New Novel “Purity”
If the beautiful, perfect heart in the chest of Philip Roth ever stops beating, which it shouldn’t, Jonathan Franzen will become the greatest living American novelist. When news broke yesterday that Mr. Franzen’s new novel, Purity, […]
My 2014 Senate Race Predictions
Since November of 2010, the Advanced Analytics Department of Baby Pictures of Famous Dictators has been working tirelessly to predict the outcomes of the 2014 Midterm Elections. Using a hybridized version of FiveThirtyEight’s poll consolidation algorithm, which […]
Song of the Week: “Push” by Lorde
When news broke that Lorde was actually a 40-year-old male geologist from Colorado, not a gothic female middle schooler from New Zealand, many assumed her career would be over. Though much of the success of […]
READ MY NOVEL NOW: Chill or Fraud? Chapter Two
For reasons previously iterated, I will be serializing my novel, Chill or Fraud?, in its entirety on this blog. You can read the latest version of the novel’s second chapter, “Gentrified Brooklyn,” by clicking the words below […]
