This is what media pressure & a fear of political diversity gets you. Is it too extreme to call the state of American pop culture authoritarian? Maybe. Lazy & ignorant? Definitely. There's absolutely nothing fascist or neonazi about this show.

What's truly striking about the corruption on display here (and in general among America's judicial system) is that it boils down to two other failures that are uniquely American and interrelated.

For anyone who still doesn't quite grasp how idiotic the Glenn "death" was and why it's infuriating. Simply, it's just a big breaking of fundamental cinematic grammar. It presumes that the audience doesn't really require a competent production because the we should be happy with the heavily laced contrived emotional…

Jackson Heights resident for over a decade. It's multicultural and great. Mostly residential. If you're young or in your early to mid 20's and unless you're moving here for the 'cheap' rent there's not much else going on. Rent is still "relatively" cheap but quickly becoming gentrified. Unfortunately it's also become…

VICE being in on the joke is the worst case of self-admission possible. Aligning themselves to this satire is more or less them trying to do some kind of damage-control. Difficult to imagine they were totally ok with it. Then again that sense of arrogance-laced apathy you get from them makes it really hard to tell.…

Can you please credit the artist of the poster? As a commercial artist my work is constantly stolen, rotated, credited without credit. This is considered editorial use so I don't understand the constant oversight. Thank You.

Wow I love the ample vitriolic generalizations of indie filmmakers. Way to miss the point everyone. If filmmakers find it hard to get a permit or shoot a certain way it's because the space for experimentation doesn't exist today, nor an industry that is willing to take risks on original ideas and creative talent.…

Because Alex doesn't perceive himself as an auteur it's bullshit. But then he says it exists. I call bullshit on that. It absolutely exists but in very rare cases and certainly not in mainstream. That's the problem. Auteur theory started grassroots but as usual co-opted as a marketing asset. Auteur theory is one of…