Wasn't 'white' that raised my hackles. Twas 'creepy'.

There is a difference between referencing something culturally relevant, and using a lazy shorthand in the hope of making a fairly rote piece of pop news seem interesting. I don't think the writer had any intention whatsoever to offend or be provocative, but that's the sort of thing that happens when you're operating…

However well one's privilege is checked, I think we can all agree that the death of children is worse than marital infidelity.

I was at this too and this is true. He walked out and started to play Two Headed Boy Part 2 and I thought my head was going to explode.

I've read this article couple of times now, and I'm really struggling what point the author is trying to make. An artist being unappreciated in their own time, withdrawing and becoming exponentially more popular in the interim as successive generations discover them…this is hardly an unusual sequence of events. You…

I haven't seen this for a while, but I remember finding it insanely didactic, maybe more than Funny Games. I always think Haneke is at his best when he manages to keep his intentions as fluid (to me, that is) as possible; The Piano Teacher and The White Ribbon are to me, joyously polysemous and obscure. I find that…