Film
![Slamdance Film Review: A Great Lamp](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/a-great-lamp-slamdance.jpg)
Slamdance Film Review: A Great Lamp
A Great Lamp makes crucial points about the coded ways we talk about what it means to be well-adjusted or independent, and why these terms might be ultimately futile. … read more
![Slamdance Film Review: Behind the Bullet](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/behind-the-bullet-slamdance.jpg)
Slamdance Film Review: Behind the Bullet
Behind the Bullet tells the stories of Christen McGinnes, Will Little, Kevin Leonard and Taylor Dwyer, four people who, throughout the film, tell us how they have lived with the consequences after pulling the trigger. … read more
![Slamdance Film Review: Dollhouse: The Eradication of Female Subjectivity from American Popular Culture](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/doll-house-slamdance.jpg)
Slamdance Film Review: Dollhouse: The Eradication of Female Subjectivity from...
The film is exactly what it markets itself as, an exploration of the manner in which female pop stars are exploited and misrepresented through the media and entertainment industry. … read more
![Sundance Film Review: Anthropocene: The Human Epoch](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Anthropocene.jpg)
Sundance Film Review: Anthropocene: The Human Epoch
Anthropocene: The Human Epoch succeeds in not trying to assail each topic but giving us a panoramic view of how all of these human activities cumulatively affect the planet. … read more
![Slamdance Film Review: The Professional: A Stevie Blatz Story](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/the-professional-slamdance.jpg)
Slamdance Film Review: The Professional: A Stevie Blatz Story
The Professional is an apt title for a film about someone going through the realest hustle, of owning one’s own business and trying to keep a life together around it. … read more
![Slamdance 2019 Film – Desolation Center and the Birth of the Modern Music Festival](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/ED-361-Desolation-Center-Band.jpg)
Slamdance 2019 Film – Desolation Center and the Birth of...
This year, the Slamdance Film Festival will debut Desolation Center, the story of the early iconoclasts of DIY culture and the roots of modern, outdoor music and performing-arts festivals. … read more
![Aquaman](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/aquaman-image-28.jpg)
Aquaman
Aquaman is fun, but as I’ve said in the past, you have to modify your brain to sleep mode and enjoy the silliness, as it can be preposterously idiotic at others. No one walking into the theater should expect anything more than underwater soldiers riding sharks, seahorses and whales while engaged in heavy combat. … read more
![Dirty God at Sundance Film Festival 2019 – Scars as Beauty Marks](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/361-Ed-Sundance-Dirty-God-Jade-Vicky-Knight-Sacha-Polak-Parisa-Taghizadeh.jpg)
Dirty God at Sundance Film Festival 2019 – Scars as...
Dutch director Sacha Polak’s Sundance 2019 film, Dirty God, opens with what almost looks like an alluring red-rock landscape. The up-close shot soon reveals that it’s the acid-scarred skin of lead character Jade, played by Vicky Knight. … read more
![Content Shifter: 9 Streaming Series from 2009](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Parks-Recreation.jpg)
Content Shifter: 9 Streaming Series from 2009
TV had a pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty good 2009, as well. Here are nine iconic-to-obscure shows that debuted 10 years ago to stream while pondering what the hell you’ve done with your life. … read more
![Film Review: Roma](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/360-Ed-Film-Reviews-Roma-Alfonso-Cuarón-691x1024.jpg)
Film Review: Roma
Whether it’s a grand-scale production like Gravity or a fly-on-the-wall observatory project like Roma, the creativity and passion that flows on the screen is undeniable. The raw emotion packs a punch that’ll leave audiences with something to ponder on the drive home. … read more