52 Films By Women 8. Lost in Translation, directed by Sofia Coppola

8. Lost in Translation, directed by Sofia Coppola

Let’s Be Alone Together in Lost in Translation   Two very different lives collide in this dreamy reflection of disconnection and disorientation. Set in the overwhelming intensity of Tokyo, and in the dingy, claustrophobic hotel within the city, Bob and Charlotte strike up an unlikely friendship.

News & Events Light Plane Crash in Melbourne

Light Plane Crash in Melbourne

All Five Passengers Onboard Are Thoutht to Have Perished in the “Catastrophic” Crash   A small private charter aircraft carrying five passengers has crashed into a Direct Factory Outlet in Essendon after suffering engine failure.

News & Events Milo Yiannopoulos: Ultimate Troll

Milo Yiannopoulos: Ultimate Troll

Due to Some Harmful Uncovered Interview Footage, The Breitbart Editor’s Reputation Could Be Irreparably Damaged   Here’s a quick bit of background for those fortunate enough to have never heard of Milo Yiannopoulos: he’s an ultra right-wing conservative commentator and currently the senior editor for Breitbart News who holds many staunch, often wildly contradictory opinions. He …

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Episodes The Walking Dead, S07E10

The Walking Dead, S07E10

“New Best Friends” Strives for Connection And Intermittently Succeeds   Another week, another slog through a dystopian apocalypse only marginally more disconcerting than the one we’re slowly ambling towards in the real world. God, whatever happened to escapism? This week’s episode, “New Best Friends”, is regrettably not the My Little Pony/The Walking Dead fanfic mash-up that I submitted …

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Trump Trump: Too Crazy for Fiction

Trump: Too Crazy for Fiction

The Real World Has Given Us a President that You Could Not Write a Credible Story About Under Any Circumstances   Let’s imagine I created a TV show called, oh, I don’t know… America is Broken; y’know, something subtle like that. Then I created some direct marketing platform akin to Netflix through which subscribers could watch …

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52 Films By Women 7. LOL, directed by Lisa Azuelos

7. LOL, directed by Lisa Azuelos

LOL Can Mean One Thing or the Other in This French Gem   Let’s make this immediately clear that this is the French, 2008 version, and not the American remake. Not that I’ve even seen the American one (who knows, it could be better than what all those vehement critics are suggesting), but we all know that …

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Music If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late For Drake

If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late For Drake

It Seems Increasingly Obvious That We’re Living in a World of Drake’s Rapid Decline, Which is Sad But Almost Unavoidable   Three days ago, Drake’s surprise retail mixtape If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late turned two years old. In rap years, that’s basically a decade, and the interim has not been overly kind to the Canadian wonder …

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Episodes The Walking Dead, S07E09

The Walking Dead, S07E09

Mid-Season Premier “Rock in the Road” (alternative title: “Stick in the Mud”) is Very Much What You’d Expect   “Let me stop you before you break into song!”, cuts in Gregory when Tara starts giving a very typical speech for this show, talking about the resilience and strength people can exhibit when their backs are …

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