Radio, Someone Still Loves You

After months of having it constantly shoved in my face, I finally got around to watching that new Queen biopic, Bohemian Rhapsody. I always meant to watch it sooner, but now I’m kinda happy I didn’t. The movie was great, don’t get me wrong, my only issue with it was that it felt a bit […]

Conceived Realities

Over the weekend, I finally saw a movie that I’ve been dying to see for the longest time. It’s called The Truman Show and it stars one of the greatest comedians of all time, Jim Carrey. So I’ll give you guys a quick synopsis, basically it’s about a man named Truman, who is unaware that […]

The Powerful Effects of Human Interest

Another year, another Spring Break where I literally did nothing but sleep and watch TV… This time around, I ended up watching two pretty amazing movies, both an ode to a couple of once very popular, yet semi-fleeting mediums—the radio and the newspaper. The radio movie, ironically titled, Talk Radio, is a late 80s film about […]

Government Assisted Monopolies

A few days ago, as I was routinely swiping past and finger-hovering over the various applications on my mobile device, I noticed that I still had the Tidal application downloaded, despite not ever using it since 2017. For anyone unfamiliar, Tidal is that music streaming application that’s trying (and mostly failing) to compete with the […]

Producing Mirrored Opposites

My favorite moment from Unproductive is the moment when Winona gets the radio General Manager position against Kelly’s wishes. I’m a sucker for an underdog story plot, what can I say? Overall, from my opinion, there seems to be an underlying/recurring theme of characters being mirrored by their exact opposites. Moreover, these very opposites end […]

Imitating or Imitated?

Before watching the movies, Gattaca and Pump up the Volume, from the titles alone, I assumed Gattaca was going to be some sci-fi movie, possibly taking place in space. I mean- I don’t know, what else does Gattaca sound like it could be about? It’s almost like a given. As for Pump Up the Volume, […]

The Fate of Journalism

It is 2019 and journalism as we know it is undergoing massive changes. Print-newspapers are losing billions in ad-revenue, corporations are buying out multiple print-media companies (diminishing the integrity of these news sources), downsizing newspaper companies at the local level are leading to an overexploitation and/or loss of the editorial staff’s labor power, and most […]

A Thin Line Between Hate and American Values

Before watching Marshall Curry’s, A Night at the Garden, based off of the title alone, I immediately assumed that this documentary would most likely be Madison Square Garden related. This is virtually the one and only thing that I would guess correctly about the documentary prior to viewing it. For the most part, I had no […]

15 Years of Driving Facebook

The 15th anniversary of Facebook was recently celebrated on February 4, 2019. It’s insane to think how long Facebook has been a part of our lives, shaping our culture, driving the way people interact with media. I first heard about Facebook exactly 10 years ago, right during the decline of another once-popular, social media network, MySpace. I remember […]