Healthcare is currently the largest industry in the United States of America. Thanks in large part to momentous advances in sanitation and medical technology, human life expectancy has nearly doubled over the last 100 years, […]
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The Strawberry Criterion: The Grand Budapest Hotel
Editor’s Note: In preparation for this review, I saw The Grand Budapest Hotel twice. I did this neither out of adoration nor frustration, but out of functional necessity. See, I fell asleep around midway through […]
The Strawberry Criterion: The Grey
First and foremost, The Grey is a movie about Liam Neeson fist-fighting giant, CGI wolves; but in another curiously present sense, The Grey is a film about poetry. Surprisingly, earnestly, and sometimes subtly: poetry. The […]
The Strawberry Criterion: Drake’s Nothing Was The Same
Upon release of album three, what are we to make of Aubrey “Drizzy Drake” Graham, the Kleenex-soft rapper who claims he tops the mohs scale, the fake-friend paranoiac from the bottommost streets of Degrassi, who can’t […]
Requested: The Strawberry Criterion: Orange is the New Black
The “Golden Age” of television is drawing to a swift, spectacular close. The Sopranos and The Wire have exited our televisions, if not our conversations. Breaking Bad has already skidded into the final curve of its downward spiral. Within […]
Diplo’s Twitter Review of Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories: A Review
daft punks new album is streaming on itunes + of course music producer n blackberry spokesman diplo reviewed it on his twitter. this = my review of diplos review. lets go thru his v critically […]
The Strawberry Criterion: Magic Mike
“It is to be all made of fantasy, All made of passion and all made of wishes, All adoration, duty, and observance, All humbleness, all patience and impatience, All purity, all trial, all observance.” -Shakespeare, As […]
The Strawberry Criterion: The Master
Cliche upholds that the human mind is “an excellent servant, but a terrible master.” In The Master, his first film since 2007’s redoubtable There Will Be Blood, writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson seeks to dramatize his and our ancient […]
The Strawberry Criterion: The Dark Knight Rises
Has there ever been a wholly successful cinematic trilogy? On purely financial terms, of course. The current marquee dominance of reboots and sequels and sequels to sequels is a direct result of consistent, staggering commercial […]
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