“In the sight of God, what is the difference between a white man and black one?” First told as an autobiographical story in Solomon Northup’s 12 Years A Slave published in 1853, the world was introduced to an extremely important piece of trying to decipher…

“…the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.”—William Faulkner This past weekend in NYC was the premiere of James Franco’s As I Lay Dying: his second novel adaptation released this year, shortly after Child of God that first played at…

“And then all of the sudden President Kennedy appeared[.] And he had a way of doing this like no one had ever seen before. And it was a presence bigger than life. I never knew how tall the man was, or anything else, but he…

“Where’s my daughter? Where’s my daughter!” Do we ever really know our neighbors? Do we put too much trust in letting children play among these periodically seen strangers? In Denis Villeneuve’s latest film Jake Gyllenhaal is Detective Loki, a cop who in the eyes of a…

Everyone—artists especially—keeps tabs on their classmates’ movements. Who works at what publication, who got a promotion, who lives at home. It’s always been a sick obsession of anyone with any hope for a career, but for the current crop of twenty-somethings, of which I am…

Of all the complaints aimed toward Girls, the one thing you’ll never hear is that it doesn’t move fast enough. The show has fallen into a fairly steady rhythm of conflict/resolution/conflict, and “Hard Being Easy” is no different. This week opens on Hannah/Marnie/Charlie immediately after…

Comedically, this is one of Girls’ weakest episodes. Luckily, there’s a lot of good character stuff happening. Like so many of the best television shows, Girls—especially this episode—seems to be about characters’ lack of control. In “Hannah’s Diary,” none of our women are in control: Even…