Tuesday, May 7 2013
SFIFF Spotlight: Vengeance!
Vengeance plays a prominent role in three audience-favorite films at the San Francisco International Film Festival this year. This classic theme lends itself to fast-paced, intriguing films about humans deal with darker urges.
Who Watches These Things?: An Examination of Daytime TV’s New Era
It's still nearly all talk all the time, but is daytime's audience changing?
Killing Spree: The Inconsistency of Video Game Violence
Bioshock Infinite is problematic because, unlike the battle for Hyrule or Jacinto, the massacre at Wounded Knee actually happened, as did violence against interracial couples. It becomes extraordinarily uncomfortable for a game to treat enemies as obstacles to be removed with a gun in the context of actual, still relevant wars.
Anti-Flag Rages on Against the Machine in 2013
Drummer Pat Thetic waxes on Anti-Flag's two-decade run as the most political band in music. Then the band blasts us with a barnburner show at LA's Troubadour.
Queensryche: 21 April 2013 - San Francisco, CA
Queensryche’s combination of progressive metal and bold political lyrics stood out from the pack in 1988, and still do in much the same way here in 2013.
Political, Pointed, and Peculiar: Armando Iannucci, Comedy Genius
Armando Iannucci's The Thick of It and Veep have solidified his legacy as a political satirist, but we mustn't forget the impact his other works have had on culture and comedy.
Power and the Passion: An Interview with Midnight Oil
They were big in Australia, but as politics slowly began to inform their lyrics, the band soon began taking off worldwide, and now, with an epic two-disc retrospective out, Rob Hirst walks us through Midnight Oil's entire career, and what a journey it is.
‘The Great Commanders’ Struggles With its Limitations
This six-part documentary provides evidence for the "great man" theory.
Deerhunter: Monomania
Music is a neccessity for Bradford Cox, and on Monomania he asks whether or not that's good for him.
Ola Podrida: Ghosts Go Blind
Ghosts Go Blind succeeds because it manages to pull tension out of spacious textures. It never unleashes a rock fury and often deals in isolated space, but it never sounds slack or insular.
