> “This summer the unvarying male uniform in the precincts of Brooklyn cool has
been a pair of shorts cut at knickers length, a V-neck Hanes T-shirt, a pair of
generic slip-on sneakers
If you’ve ever been browsing PBS during random afternoon hours or late at night,
you might have come across an awkward khaki-pantsed northwesterner with a
Minnesotan accent stumbling through basic phrases in
That was a good movie. Let’s go fight each other with some bottle rockets.
This might be the best way to describe The Hurt Locker if it was your standard
summer action
In the movie Wall-E, the opening sequence is a vision of a post-human American
city. It’s a landfill where once gleaming steel structures are overrun by drifts
of plastic. The vision served
America, in a stuporous hangover from a decade-long party of indulgence, seems
to be recovering in a cultural rebellion against the drink that ailed us.
In a highly prescient move to invest in