How to prepare for A Serious Man: play Jefferson Airplane records in a room adorned by seventies porn star posters dimly lit by a menorah while reading the Torah, on weed.
Contributor: Jason Cangialosi Published: Oct 28, 2009
Near the Denver Art Museum, The CELL is a non-profit, high-tech exhibit experience, called Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere: Understanding the Threat of Terrorism.
Contributor: Jason Cangialosi Published: Oct 13, 2009
District 9 is a rare movie capable of borrowing from the pantheon of science fiction cinema without being a hack. District 9 has social pertinence behind the mask of one bad-ass alien movie.
Contributor: Jason Cangialosi Published: Oct 03, 2009
Film adaptation of Robert Venditti's comic, Surrogates, directed by Jonathan Mostow, starring Bruce Willis, Rhada Mitchell, James Cromwell, Ving Rhames. Irony of the film's message, as Venditti's comic is stripped of its flesh and bone.
Contributor: Jason Cangialosi Published: Sep 29, 2009
Korean director Park Chan-wook continues his innovative lineage of thriller and horror films, with Thirst, creating a cinematic feast akin to a Shakespearean throne of blood.
Contributor: Jason Cangialosi Published: Sep 07, 2009
Philosophy student Duncan Jones shows a promising launch as a filmmaker; a preferred platform for philosophers in the 20th Century, by carrying the torch of social enlightenment through science fiction in his debut, Moon
Contributor: Jason Cangialosi Published: Jul 23, 2009
In April 2002, the Supreme Court made a 6-3 ruling that the law restricting computer-generated images of children engaging in sexually explicit conduct violated First Amendment rights, but isn't Child Porn still just Child Porn?
Contributor: Jason Cangialosi Published: Oct 31, 2008
As cliche as it may seem, in literature a flower can symbolize a character's urge to blossom in life. Such classic examples exist in Willa Cather's short story, Paul's Case and John Steinbeck's, The Chrysanthemums.
Contributor: Jason Cangialosi Published: Oct 29, 2008
A brief analysis of the oppressive nature of men towards women in late 19th century in the short stories A Rose for Emily, by Faulkner and The Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
Contributor: Jason Cangialosi Published: Oct 28, 2008
Pittsburgh's cold dullness bores a burning young boy, compared to the storybook extravagance of New York. Willa Cather's story, Paul's Case tells this tale of the two cities encasing his life, and how he chose death over life in Pittsburgh.
Contributor: Jason Cangialosi Published: Oct 28, 2008
"Someone once told me that I was a deep thinker, as deep as the ocean, but I replied, no, not even the Universe is deep in its immeasurable mass and I am only the illusion of a puddle."