Vee Hua 華婷婷Directed by Nadine Labaki; 2011 Where Do We Go Now? opens on an unremarkable dirt road. A group of women hugs the frame tightly. They are of all shapes and sizes — young and old, supermodel beautiful and commoner modest — and upon first...
Joshua Saunders finds irony in the most unlikely of things. I don’t know what else this particular show now taking place at Domy Books in Austin entails, but this image alone is just really, really, really funny to me. Showing in the back...
Eleanor RayAndrew Dinwiddie has meticulously recreated a live sermon by the evangelist preacher Jimmy Swaggart, recorded in Van Buren, Arkansas, circa 1971. In a remarkably fluent echo of the original (peppered with emphatic interjections, “Huh!”)...
In this video created by and for Adult Swim, scary new Mister Rogers introduces Mastodon into a world of destructive puppets and toys which mangle, demolish, torture, and pummel with all of the ferocity of Dante’s Inferno. Suck it, nostalgia.
If you’ve ever been to a metal show, you’ll know that they’re funny. Simultaneously really cheesy and really hardcore, metal dudes are quite frequently just nice guys that revel in the irony of it all. You can’t constantly be...
Gromozeka is, in the words of my cohort, “very Russian.” Gromozeka is, in the words of my other cohort, “odd.” This odd, very Russian film is not for everyone. It’s probably not even for 75% of film-going patrons...
Allen HuangHere’s a smattering of reviews that are up way too late for you to take advantage of, but nonetheless you should know about (for better or for worse). All these films were screened at the most excellent so far 2011 Seattle International Film...
This video shows kids shuckin’ and jivin’ before the conventions of the world start holdin’ ’em down. Ah, such lovely, humorous purity. It’s almost weirdly poetic set next to this music… who the heck thought of...