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Review: Selma, 2014, dir. Ava DuVernay

Review: Selma, 2014, dir. Ava DuVernay

“If Selma can be described in one word, it’s “fiery.” Biopics are typically such rote, thankless exercises in filmmaking that the idea anybody could make one colored with brushstrokes this passionate feels contrary. But there’s no better way to characterize what Ava DuVernay has accomplished in her dramatic chronicle of the 1965 voting rights marches … Continue reading

On America and Bin Laden

On America and Bin Laden

A somber post begins with the humor of an Internet meme. Me in a nutshell. I’m not really one to editorialize, so I’ll skip detailing my personal reaction to Osama Bin Laden’s death and forgo analyzing what his departure from this world means for humanity, and I’ll spare you all my various opinions of and … Continue reading