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 […]
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Lena Dunham’s Gentrification of the Mind
If gentrification is nothing more than white supremacy for liberals, then Lena Dunham’s HBO series, GIRLS, may be the phenomenon’s urtext. Set primarily in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, the show follows four twenty-something female protagonists–Hannah, Jessa, Marnie, and Shoshanna–as they […]
Sardoni Selects 2: An Exhaustive Email Exchange: Part 3
(Editor’s Note: Three years ago, Carmen Petaccio and Taylor Sardoni exchanged 15,000 words of email correspondence about the ten most notable films of 2013. No one was ever able to determine why, and now they’re […]
Sardoni Selects 2: An Exhaustive Email Exchange: Part Two
(Editor’s Note: Three years ago, Carmen Petaccio and Taylor Sardoni exchanged 15,000 words of email correspondence about the ten most notable films of 2013. No one was ever able to determine why, and now they’re […]
The Strawberry Criterion: Suicide Squad
Suicide was once deemed the lone truly serious philosophical problem, but that was well before the advent of the superhero blockbuster. In The Myth of Sisyphus, Albert Camus writes, “What is called a reason for living is […]
Worst to First: M. Night Shyamalan Movies
In Split, the latest psychological thriller from writer-director M. Night Shyamalan, James McAvoy plays Kevin, “a sufferer of dissociative personality disorder” who kidnaps teenage girls and subjects them to a variety of torments, the specifics of which […]
The Strawberry Criterion: Guardians of the Galaxy
“Less is more” is an axiom, “more is more” is not. “Too much of a good thing can be a bad thing” is an axiom, “too much of a bad thing can be a good […]
Critical Analyses: The Flame Alphabet
As a purported graduate student, I’m supposed to satisfy the requirements of my respective courses. I have four courses this semester and each of them is truly a gas and a half. That’s ten total […]
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