Movie Review | 'Flakes': Cereal as a Metaphor for Capitalism
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A business course on cutthroat capitalism disguised as a slacker comedy: Thatâs the kindest way to describe Michael Lehmannâs âFlakes.â
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Pennsylvania - How&#39;s this for creative thinking? A cafÃ© has opened with pyjama-clad servers pouring cereal day and night, topping it off with everything from fruit to malted milk balls, and serving it in &quot;bowls&quot; resembling Chinese takeout containers.
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The film has its genuinely hilarious moments.
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In the documentary âCzech Dream,â two students at the Prague Film Academy use state money to stage an elaborate consumer hoax.
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It has been well recorded that the mid-nineties are best known for sudden popularity of independent cinema, but independent from what? The term "indie" is as slippery when applied to films as it is to music. The studio at the vanguard of this "revolution" was Miramax, which was long a subsidiary of Disney, and as for the "revolution" itself, it unleashed more painful and derivative Pulp Fiction clones than it did anything truly revolutionary. It was bled dry, turned inside out, repackaged, and sold back to the masses until it became the paradigm of unhipness. This seems to be the nature of all revolutions, from the Soviets to the Sixties; the bullshit always comes full circle.     While it's easy to be cynical of all so-called revolutions in hindsight, what one can't be cynical about is the intense enthusiasm audiences had for the so-called independent cinema of this era. To every person who ever dreamed of being in the director's chair, it seemed like all one needed to have the new hit movie was a vast knowledge of pop culture, the ability to write pages worth of rambling dialogue, and a Visa card.
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This show is an entertaining but sometimes too earnest primer about the politics of food.
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Nutrition, obsession, global business:  an exploration of our second most basic desire.
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A TIME critic's take on the cantankerous director of MASH and other sprawling social comedies
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Pop culture, society's meeting ground, has the privilege of playing a starring role in its conflicts.
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The Obama Express. My latest piece on Huffington.  If you like it, please feel free to pass it on.  "cheesecake"
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Visually and aurally stylish, âBeckett Shortsâ offers a lovely frame for a study in human frustration that only occasionally comes to life.
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How&#39;s this for thinking outside the box: a cafe with jammies-clad servers pouring cereal day and night, topping it with everything from fruit to malted milk balls, and serving it in &quot;bowls&quot; resembling Chinese takeout containers?
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What does Guillermo del Toro's brilliant fantasy film say about politics in an age of media fairy tales? In Table of Malcontents.
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Comment is free: George Monbiot: A hospital in Coventry lays bare the deceit of neoliberal logic: staff cuts, ward closures and millions to the financiers.
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A review of Michael Moore's latest film, "Sicko."
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With a title like  "Smart People," a film placed in academia signals that its  characters might be too clever for their own good.
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"Legong: Dance of the Virgins" is a delirious blend of sentimental fiction and ethnological fact. Also, Orson Welles's "It's All True" and "Spider-Man 2."