Jacking-in to Kathryn Bigelow’s Lost Classic ‘Strange Days’
Cyberthriller Strange Days is the Kathryn Bigelow version of a Brian De Palma film: interrogating the male gaze of the immoral.
Mark Palermo
Mark Palermo is an independent filmmaker, and the co-writer of the 2012 theatrical feature cult horror/comedy Detention, directed by Joseph Kahn and distributed by Sony Pictures. He’s written commercial treatments for several directors and served as film critic for Halifax’s alternative weekly The Coast for 11 years.
‘Get Hard’ and Get Angry
The Left is veering uncomfortably close to the Right in its half-informed demonization of individuals and artworks, as response to Get Hard illustrates.
The Tyranny of Aspiration Culture
Without room for doubt, uncertainty, and even self-hatred, the tyranny of Aspiration Culture prevails, and meaningful defiance is thrown out the window.