Some call it torture pornography. Others call it great art. With the film “Funny Games” (2008), Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke makes a halfhearted stab at condemning what he calls our infatuation with stylized Hollywood violence. The strange thing is that he already made the exact same condemnation ten years ago. More »
When 17-year-old front runner David Archuleta began to effortlessly honey out a Beatles classic in order to atone for what had been an unforgettable razing of “We Can Work It Out” the week before, pop culture fanatics everywhere — or rather, the ones who could hear themselves think over the panting bevy of tween girls who screamed as though he were formerly part of the Fab Four — no doubt noticed how uncannily his song choice reflected, once again, the predictable unpredictability of American Idol season seven. More »
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