Are you capable of killing someone? What if you’re in a particularly bad mood? What if someone’s really asking for it? In the BBC’s new drama Inside Man, David Tennant’s character, a vicar, is falsely accused of owning indecent images of children. He faces the following everyday dilemma: should he allow his accuser to spread the falsehood? Or should he just bump her off when he has the chance? Thus begins a show that explores the idea that “everyone is a murderer. You just have to meet the right person.”
Those words are uttered by Stanley Tucci’s character, Jefferson Grieff, who speaks from experience: he is locked up on Death Row and awaiting his execution. But is he right? Is there, inside every non-murderer, a murderer trying to get out? David Wilson, professor emeritus of criminology at Birmingham City University, thinks not. He, too, speaks from experience,...
Those words are uttered by Stanley Tucci’s character, Jefferson Grieff, who speaks from experience: he is locked up on Death Row and awaiting his execution. But is he right? Is there, inside every non-murderer, a murderer trying to get out? David Wilson, professor emeritus of criminology at Birmingham City University, thinks not. He, too, speaks from experience,...
- 10/5/2022
- by Tom Ough
- The Independent - TV
Are you capable of killing someone? What if you’re in a particularly bad mood? What if someone’s really asking for it? In the BBC’s new drama Inside Man, David Tennant’s character, a vicar, is falsely accused of owning indecent images of children. He faces the following everyday dilemma: should he allow his accuser to spread the falsehood? Or should he just bump her off when he has the chance? Thus begins a show that explores the idea that “everyone is a murderer. You just have to meet the right person.”
Those words are uttered by Stanley Tucci’s character, Jefferson Grieff, who speaks from experience: he is locked up on Death Row and awaiting his execution. But is he right? Is there, inside every non-murderer, a murderer trying to get out? David Wilson, professor emeritus of criminology at Birmingham City University, thinks not. He, too, speaks from experience,...
Those words are uttered by Stanley Tucci’s character, Jefferson Grieff, who speaks from experience: he is locked up on Death Row and awaiting his execution. But is he right? Is there, inside every non-murderer, a murderer trying to get out? David Wilson, professor emeritus of criminology at Birmingham City University, thinks not. He, too, speaks from experience,...
- 10/5/2022
- by Tom Ough
- The Independent - TV
Are you capable of killing someone? What if you’re in a particularly bad mood? What if someone’s really asking for it? In the BBC’s new drama Inside Man, David Tennant’s character, a vicar, is falsely accused of owning indecent images of children. He faces the following everyday dilemma: should he allow his accuser to spread the falsehood? Or should he just bump her off when he has the chance? Thus begins a show that explores the idea that “everyone is a murderer. You just have to meet the right person.”
Those words are uttered by Stanley Tucci’s character, Jefferson Grieff, who speaks from experience: he is locked up on Death Row and awaiting his execution. But is he right? Is there, inside every non-murderer, a murderer trying to get out? David Wilson, professor emeritus of criminology at Birmingham City University, thinks not. He, too, speaks from experience,...
Those words are uttered by Stanley Tucci’s character, Jefferson Grieff, who speaks from experience: he is locked up on Death Row and awaiting his execution. But is he right? Is there, inside every non-murderer, a murderer trying to get out? David Wilson, professor emeritus of criminology at Birmingham City University, thinks not. He, too, speaks from experience,...
- 10/4/2022
- by Tom Ough
- The Independent - TV
The country is in crisis, and Real Time host Bill Maher is predicting that things could descend into even more chaos by 2024, when a potential election coup could generate violence in the streets and a total Constitutional crisis.
Maher outlined the steps he saw leading up to that awful moment in his “New Rules” closing monologue. At the end, he made his point: “I hope I scared the shit out of you.”
But it’s a long way to that moment, and the HBO show started with an examination of why things are devolving into a potential crisis, to the point where talk of civil war and politicians being chased into bathrooms are part of the regular news cycle.
Steven Pinker, a professor of psychology at Harvard and the author of the book Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters, pointed out that the current situation...
Maher outlined the steps he saw leading up to that awful moment in his “New Rules” closing monologue. At the end, he made his point: “I hope I scared the shit out of you.”
But it’s a long way to that moment, and the HBO show started with an examination of why things are devolving into a potential crisis, to the point where talk of civil war and politicians being chased into bathrooms are part of the regular news cycle.
Steven Pinker, a professor of psychology at Harvard and the author of the book Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters, pointed out that the current situation...
- 10/9/2021
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
“Harry Potter” writer J.K Rowling, “Handmaid’s Tale” author Margaret Atwood and “Midnight’s Children” writer Salman Rushdie are amongst 150 public figures to have signed a letter condemning the practice of ‘public shaming,’ or cancel culture as it is known popularly.
Cancel culture is a term used to describe individuals who have shared an unpopular opinion or have past behavior that’s deemed offensive, who are ‘canceled’ on social media. Rowling is one such example, due to her views on the trans community.
Atwood received considerable backlash in late 2016 after supporting an open letter calling on Canada’s University of British Columbia to provide its reasons for suspending and firing novelist and instructor Steven Galloway after sexual assault allegations emerged. Meanwhile, Rushdie’s 1988 novel “The Satanic Verses” has also drawn criticism over the years for its depiction of Islamic beliefs.
Other signatories of the letter include authors Martin Amis and Jeffrey Eugenides,...
Cancel culture is a term used to describe individuals who have shared an unpopular opinion or have past behavior that’s deemed offensive, who are ‘canceled’ on social media. Rowling is one such example, due to her views on the trans community.
Atwood received considerable backlash in late 2016 after supporting an open letter calling on Canada’s University of British Columbia to provide its reasons for suspending and firing novelist and instructor Steven Galloway after sexual assault allegations emerged. Meanwhile, Rushdie’s 1988 novel “The Satanic Verses” has also drawn criticism over the years for its depiction of Islamic beliefs.
Other signatories of the letter include authors Martin Amis and Jeffrey Eugenides,...
- 7/8/2020
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
On August 11th, 1999, the Dalai Lama brought thousands of New Yorkers to Central Park to hear him preach the gospel of nothingness. About 20 years later, a tech start-up called Ozy Media updated His Holiness’ concept as a bipartisan bacchanal of surrender complete with false prophets, matching accessories and the pacifying sense that everything will be fine – if only we embrace our fate as steerage passengers on the SpaceX™ Titanic.
Fueled by Silicon Valley venture capital, the third annual Ozy Fest brought together the brightest minds of neoliberalism for an extended...
Fueled by Silicon Valley venture capital, the third annual Ozy Fest brought together the brightest minds of neoliberalism for an extended...
- 7/23/2018
- by Jamie Peck
- Rollingstone.com
None of us know what made us what we are, and when we have to say something, we make up a good story • Steven Pinker
Long drive to and from Secaucus. It was a convention-filled weekend and, judging by the contents of the jar that accepts donations, a profitable one for The Hero Initiative. That organization is mostly the reason I attend conventions these days and a noble reason it is.
Two rough spots: as I was leaving a stage after blathering for an hour, I stumbled and fell – whomp! No harm done – no kidding, none – except maybe to my ego.
That slapstick was the first rough spot. The second was much grimmer. Sometime Sunday afternoon someone said that George Pérez wasn’t in attendance because he’d been taken to the hospital. Later we learned that George had suffered a heart attack. Had been given angioplasty and was resting comfortably.
Long drive to and from Secaucus. It was a convention-filled weekend and, judging by the contents of the jar that accepts donations, a profitable one for The Hero Initiative. That organization is mostly the reason I attend conventions these days and a noble reason it is.
Two rough spots: as I was leaving a stage after blathering for an hour, I stumbled and fell – whomp! No harm done – no kidding, none – except maybe to my ego.
That slapstick was the first rough spot. The second was much grimmer. Sometime Sunday afternoon someone said that George Pérez wasn’t in attendance because he’d been taken to the hospital. Later we learned that George had suffered a heart attack. Had been given angioplasty and was resting comfortably.
- 5/4/2017
- by Dennis O'Neil
- Comicmix.com
Heide Hatry: Icons In Ash Ubu Gallery, NYC Through March 7th, 2017
Heide Hatry's show at Ubu Gallery is a series of portraits made from cremated ashes based on photographs of the deceased selected by family members or loved ones who have provided her with their ash remains. These are objects made in the spirit of the Consolatio, the ancient tradition of honoring the dead and consoling the mourners.
The resulting portraits presented in deep shadow-box frames, have a surface both softer and more active than the photo. Granular, like rough cut granite. But these portraits are not "painted", the very tedious, time consuming process uses tiny "dust" particles on wax to create a "mosaic." The solid characteristics of the 'thing' contrasting with the fleeting glimpse of the photo.
She has also released a book publication, Icons in Ash, (which accompanies the show) in which twenty-seven contributing authors, including Siri Hustvedt,...
Heide Hatry's show at Ubu Gallery is a series of portraits made from cremated ashes based on photographs of the deceased selected by family members or loved ones who have provided her with their ash remains. These are objects made in the spirit of the Consolatio, the ancient tradition of honoring the dead and consoling the mourners.
The resulting portraits presented in deep shadow-box frames, have a surface both softer and more active than the photo. Granular, like rough cut granite. But these portraits are not "painted", the very tedious, time consuming process uses tiny "dust" particles on wax to create a "mosaic." The solid characteristics of the 'thing' contrasting with the fleeting glimpse of the photo.
She has also released a book publication, Icons in Ash, (which accompanies the show) in which twenty-seven contributing authors, including Siri Hustvedt,...
- 1/21/2017
- by Millree Hughes
- www.culturecatch.com
I was listening to the radio one afternoon and a fascinating telephone debate caught my attention. It was about youth unemployment in this country and it was the comments of one telephone caller that really got me listening, angry and thinking. The middle aged man (who will remain anonymous, well to be honest I can’t remember his name!) tried to link the current rise of unemployment to the amount of violent video games available to buy today. Claiming that the video game charts were full of them, blaming them for young peoples attitudes to life and how they are too lazy to get a job. He spoke of a very old fashioned stereotypical viewpoint that an older generation may have.
So here we are, inspired by this anonymous mans comments and fuelled by my annoyance, I decided to explore this age old view point, studying the global video game...
So here we are, inspired by this anonymous mans comments and fuelled by my annoyance, I decided to explore this age old view point, studying the global video game...
- 2/8/2012
- by Rob Cook
- Obsessed with Film
Emmanuel Roman is intrigued by the hi-tech banking methods imagined in Robert Harris's latest work
Post-financial crisis, it was only a matter of time before Robert Harris introduced a new set of bad guys. We had Nazis in Fatherland, corrupt Roman politicians in Pompeii and, closer to home, a barely disguised Tony Blair-like figure in Ghost. In The Fear Index, Harris's latest thriller – which he is already adapting for film, to be directed by Paul Greengrass – we are cast into the dystopic world of finance where nerdy hedge fund managers and their computers may be the modern embodiment of evil. Perhaps Harris has been reading too much Richard Dawkins and Steven Pinker, as he gives the impression of believing that financial markets are one step away from some kind of twisted final stage of evolution.
The hero of The Fear Index is a brilliant physicist called Dr Alex Hoffman.
Post-financial crisis, it was only a matter of time before Robert Harris introduced a new set of bad guys. We had Nazis in Fatherland, corrupt Roman politicians in Pompeii and, closer to home, a barely disguised Tony Blair-like figure in Ghost. In The Fear Index, Harris's latest thriller – which he is already adapting for film, to be directed by Paul Greengrass – we are cast into the dystopic world of finance where nerdy hedge fund managers and their computers may be the modern embodiment of evil. Perhaps Harris has been reading too much Richard Dawkins and Steven Pinker, as he gives the impression of believing that financial markets are one step away from some kind of twisted final stage of evolution.
The hero of The Fear Index is a brilliant physicist called Dr Alex Hoffman.
- 9/17/2011
- The Guardian - Film News
Hello and welcome to the inaugurial edition of Ask the Movies Editor. This is a chance for you, the common man, the flotsam and jetsam of the Internet, to have an audience with me, Jordan Hoffman, an award-winning film producer and internationally respected cineaste. I know, I can hardly believe it myself.
We invite you to send questions about any movie-related topic, be it past, present or future, either by putting it up on our Facebook Wall, hitting me over Twitter or by doing it the way your grandparents would, by sending me an email at jordan@ugo.com.
This being our first go, I have no questions to which I can respond, but I imagine there are many of you thinking quite a bit about The Avengers and what went down at D23. It is, therefore, not much of a stretch to imagine an alternate reality where Ask the...
We invite you to send questions about any movie-related topic, be it past, present or future, either by putting it up on our Facebook Wall, hitting me over Twitter or by doing it the way your grandparents would, by sending me an email at jordan@ugo.com.
This being our first go, I have no questions to which I can respond, but I imagine there are many of you thinking quite a bit about The Avengers and what went down at D23. It is, therefore, not much of a stretch to imagine an alternate reality where Ask the...
- 8/22/2011
- UGO Movies
American professor Sidney Perkowitz's proposals intended to curb film industry's worst abuses
Science fiction movies should be allowed only one major transgression of the laws of physics, according to a Us professor who has won backing from a number of his peers after creating a set of guidelines for Hollywood.
The proposals are intended to curb the film industry's worst abuses of science by confining scriptwriters to plotlines that embrace the suspension of disbelief but stop short of demanding it in every scene.
The guidelines are by Sidney Perkowitz, a professor of physics at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia and a member of the Science and Entertainment Exchange, an advisory body run by the Us National Academy of Sciences.
Perkowitz said he liked Starship Troopers, but criticised its giant insects, saying if you scaled up a real bug to that size it would collapse under its own weight. He hated The Core,...
Science fiction movies should be allowed only one major transgression of the laws of physics, according to a Us professor who has won backing from a number of his peers after creating a set of guidelines for Hollywood.
The proposals are intended to curb the film industry's worst abuses of science by confining scriptwriters to plotlines that embrace the suspension of disbelief but stop short of demanding it in every scene.
The guidelines are by Sidney Perkowitz, a professor of physics at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia and a member of the Science and Entertainment Exchange, an advisory body run by the Us National Academy of Sciences.
Perkowitz said he liked Starship Troopers, but criticised its giant insects, saying if you scaled up a real bug to that size it would collapse under its own weight. He hated The Core,...
- 2/22/2010
- by Ian Sample
- The Guardian - Film News
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