On February 10, 2008, singer/songwriter Amy Winehouse was nominated for six Grammys, walked away with five—including Record of the Year—and solidified her place as a worldwide recording artist. For most people, that would have been more than enough. For Winehouse, … Continue reading AMY
On November 23, 2012, at approximately 7:40 p.m. in Jacksonville, Florida, Michael David Dunn gunned down Jordan Davis at a Gate Gas convenience store parking lot. The dispute was over the loud music emanating from the vehicle Davis was in, … Continue reading 3½ MINUTES, 10 BULLETS
If Jean-Luc Godard was correct when he surmised, “The history of cinema is the story of men filming women,” then the French auteur Olivier Assayas’s latest, Clouds of Sils Maria, adds the crucial word missing from that epigraph: young. The cinema is … Continue reading CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA
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