A bust of Harold Ramis’s head appears early in Lady Ghostbusters, his wry grin preserved in bronze, as if pleased that death has excused him from the proceedings. Were only the living so blessed. Co-written and directed […]
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The Strawberry Criterion: The Life of Pablo
“The Life of Pablo,” the fourth title of Kanye West’s seventh album, remains conspicuously vague in the specifics of its reference, a curiosity given the levels of transparency otherwise afforded to the recording process by […]
The Strawberry Criterion: The Force Awakens
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 […]
BPoFD Recommends: Fruition of the Damned
After eight long years of development, Fruition of the Damned, a fantasy graphic novel designed specifically for the web, released its first chapter this morning. Spanning over 150 pages of original artwork, Prelude to Rapture ingeniously eschews […]
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 […]
The Strawberry Criterion: The End of the Tour
1. WHAT MOVIE THIS REVIEW IS ABOUT James Ponsoldt’s The End of the Tour, written by Donald Margulies, based on Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself by David Lipsky, featuring Jesse Eisenberg and Jason Segel. Financed by […]
The Strawberry Criterion: Trainwreck
If it takes a kind of genius to strike gold, then consider Judd Apatow a genius. In the fifteen years since the cancellation of Freaks and Geeks, that altar before which all unduly cancelled TV shows […]
The Strawberry Criterion: The Last Man on Earth
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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