Box Brown Takes on the Ultimate Weed Killer in ‘Cannabis’
As cannabis legalization spreads, Box Brown's graphic novel, Cannabis, examines the sordid and racist history of how it became demonized in the first place.
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The Hidden Gender Roles in ‘Narcos’
Narcos has a "no girls allowed" quality that threads throughout the show -- to its detriment.
Sci-fi Cowboys in ‘Escape from New York’ and ‘Escape from L.A.’
Both films are the story of a lone, jaded gunslinger in a lawless wasteland, but instead of being set in the rurally nostalgic heartland, they're set in the dilapidated coastlines of an empire in decline.
Game Theory and Marx: ‘Narcos’ as a Capitalist Parable
Narcos depicts the narcotics industry as a form of capitalism run amok, an unending game motivating its central criminals.