Month: August 2013

Features, Humor, Other, Uncategorized

Myth (Anthropic)

Congratulations. By picking up this pamphlet, you have made a very courageous act: you have admitted that you are susceptible to one of the many myths about mechomorphism (or MM). And admitting that you have a problem is the first step towards correcting that problem. Through understanding, acceptance and constant …

Essays, Features, Film, Other

What We Talk About When We Talk About Good Acting, Or, Curse You Young Oscar

The recent death of Dennis Farina led me to watch Michael Mann’s Manhunter for the first time in years, and from thence Jonathan Demme’s The Silence of the Lambs.  Thanks to time, tide, and certain mores of the Internet Age, the former is now often trumpeted as the truly great Hannibal Lecter …