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Apocalypse, American Style

Apocalypse, American Style

Apocalypse Now is the most iconic American film about America's War in Vietnam. But we are not here to expand the myth. We are here to explode it.

The Fourth Season of ‘Inside Amy Schumer’ Turns Inward at a Cost

The Fourth Season of ‘Inside Amy Schumer’ Turns Inward at a Cost

As Trainwreck and Inside Amy Schumer's third season demonstrated, Schumer’s comedy's most potent when it explores the stakes of what it skewers.

Because Blood Is Drama: Considering Carnage in Video Games and Other Media

The Value of Exploitation: Of Puppies and Pornography, Violence and Vixens

The Value of Exploitation: Of Puppies and Pornography, Violence and Vixens

Guess which two characters appeared in the half hour trailer featured at E3 for Metal Gear Solid V? Diamond Dog and the Quiet. Guess why? You shouldn't have to guess.
While ‘Beneath’ Brings the Nails to the Story, It Forgets the Hammer

While ‘Beneath’ Brings the Nails to the Story, It Forgets the Hammer

Beneath has the tools to be a good horror flick: stranded teens; the decline of judgment in the face of terror; severed limbs; lots of blood.
On the Sex, Drugs and Dopplegangers in ‘Plus One’

On the Sex, Drugs and Dopplegangers in ‘Plus One’

If Superbad and The World's End had a lovechild raised by H.G. Wells and Leatherface, it would be the emotionally charged Plus One.

With Great Vulnerability, Comes Great Brutality: The Evisceration of Lara Croft

Bill’s Beatdown: ‘Donnybrook’

Moving Pixels Podcast: The Unsettling Allure of Violence in ‘Hotline Miami’

‘The Story of America’: The United States of Amnesia

Defending Lara

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker

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