Were I a documentarian, I’d be envying Andrew Jarecki right about now. With his HBO miniseries The Jinx, he got what every Vice-watcher and Thin Blue Line-worshipper would kill for—a hypnotic and fully cooperative subject, a riveting central mystery, and an on-camera twist that led, in the midst of the doc’s multi-week run, to a […]
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Our Lady Of The Crucifix And The Hollywood Sign: Florence Reinvents Herself on How Big
“Don’t touch the sleeping pills,” the singer commanded, and I was shocked. Not because the topic is all that taboo, mind you—on today’s pop-music scene, it’s inoffensive stuff, and for this particular artist, who writes often of one-night-stands and suicide-by-drowning, it’s small potatoes. What struck me about the sleeping pills was how ordinary they felt […]
Dueling Auteurs- George Miller x Joss Whedon: The Ballad of Joss and George
Because we’re geeks, we frequently find it’s easier to understand an artist’s work when comparing them to another artist, finding out the common or antithetical traits that bind them. Hence Dueling Auteurs, a column where we take two auteurs from any medium and compare and contrast them. This month, Mason Walker pits this summer’s two biggest […]