If you’re looking for a venue for stories from, studies on, and analysis of the Middle East outside coverage by the mainstream media you’ll find a treasure trove of alternative journalism from Alternate Focus. Founded by a Jews, Muslim and Christian, the San Diego-based documentary producer, broadcaster, and distribution company focuses on telling the truth [...]
“How much acid do you guys do?” asks a commenter on the YouTube page for the first episode of Sunset Television. It’s an appropriate question.
On October 31, 1851, the New York Times published its first celebratory coverage of the events leading up to and surrounding a “hymeneal ceremony.”
Married, on the banks of the Raquetta River, “in a temple not made with hands,” Mr. Theodorus Westcott, to Miss Sarah Cole, both of Charlottesville, (Tupper’s Lake) in the County of Franklin….A [...]
IFC’s original web series Like So Many Things arrives on the crest of Mumblecore, the approximately five year-old strain of independent filmmaking characterized by low-low-low budget production, unfussy shooting styles, stories focused on the romantic tribulations of young, post-collegiate urban hipsters, and, most notoriously, awkward and hesitant dialogue.
Last year I wrote two reviews in which I gauged some of the problems inherent to the web series format.
Cataclysmo and the Time Boys could have been a fun little exercise in sci-fi camp if it didn’t have all the episodic time in the world to keep meandering into wearying nonsense. Artifact, on the other [...]
It’s been eighteen years since the Soviet Union was relegated to the dustbin of history, but that hasn’t stopped Westerners from looking back on the very failed experiment in Communism with kitsch-fueled nostalgia, one of the many ways we display our utter contempt for the cruelties and complexities of the past.
It always irks me to [...]
The irony of William Shatner sharing personal videos with the public in Ironsink’s The William Shatner Project must have been readily – and cannily – apparent to the man himself.
Here’s an actor who was practically born to be a walking YouTube virus: from his infamous tuxedoed, lounge-style interpretation of Elton John’s “Rocketman” to pretty much [...]
In our ever-ironic infotainment world of pre-packaged celebrity and one-hand-washes-another show biz fawning, satiric talk shows are not coincidentally becoming increasingly ubiquitous.
Jiminy Glick may only exist on Martin Short’s Myspace page these days, but imitations abound, from Stephen Colbert’s self-congratulatory victory laps before his silly Q and A’s to The Michael Showalter Showalter, the comedian’s [...]
