Sometimes they like it. Sometimes they don’t.
By Samantha Schles
For years, characters using medication on TV shows was like a hot stove. The networks would touch it, but jump back in time to not scar characters. It hasn’t been until the past 15 years that channels began to air programs with characters actually self-medicating. Of [...]
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Television’s Rocky Relationship with Drugs
RAW FROM THE SAW: Shutter Island
By Samantha Schles
Martin Scorsese is becoming a genre director, and Shutter Island is no exception. The movie, based on Dennis Lehane’s novel, operates as a tribute to Hitchock’s film noir of the 1950s and early 1960s.
Set in 1954, U.S. Marshals Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Chuck Aule (Mark Ruffalo) are dispatched to Shutter Island’s Ashecliffe [...]
Movie Review: Plan 9 From Outer Space
By Samantha Schles
There is one film that has the distinction as being the worst movie of all time: Edward D. Wood Jr.’s Plan 9 From Outer Space. Perhaps it’s the fact that a scene inexplicably changes from day to night then back to day again, or maybe it’s the redundant dialogue like, “And remember my [...]
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Conservatives: Stifling intellectual discussion since Eden
By Samantha Schles
We all remember back in 2007 when everyone was talking about the so-called dangerous anti-religious film The Golden Compass. That controversy goes back a long time to its book version of the same name, written by Phillip Pullman.
“[The Golden Compass] isn’t just a book that promotes atheism. It [...]
The Temper Trap, Conditions
By Sam Schles
For many American listeners, their first sample of the music of The Temper Trap came from the trailer for (500) Days of Summer. But now the Australian quartet proves they can stand on their own—no motion picture needed.
Their debut album Conditions is marked by choppy guitars, hammering drums and most notably front man [...]
