Your Discerning Guide to Modern Culture
The Bestest 2017: Filmmage This year was a strange one for films. There were plenty of great ones, but it's proving impossible for a truly small film to find a theatrical word of mouth success in the way that there used to be in the past. In the … [Continue reading]
Another year, another reason to lose yourself in music instead of the news or social media, or the news on social media. Perhaps it was the pervasive effect of the internet on my life, and some profound desire to push away from it when I had the … [Continue reading]
Great TV is inflicting pain on the movie business. Not just because the most creative writers and directors are expanding their ambitions to the small screen, but also because many of the theaters where you see high-brow films have disappeared. But … [Continue reading]
2016 was a year to forget … but also to remember. We lost at least a dozen of the most important artists we will ever hear. As much as the music business is still adjusting to the new frontier, great music seems to pour out of every corner of the … [Continue reading]
Although in many respects great TV is crippling independent film (https://pando.com/2015/10/02/has-tv-stolen-independent-film/), it is hard for me to remember a better year for films of all shapes and sizes. Sure, I saw many of them on the small … [Continue reading]