Chad and Theo had been hunting prey in Cologne since the Hohe Domkirche Sankt Petrus was first built. Both were merciless hunters. Theirs was an ancient and unholy curse. The time of regret had long past and they settled in and shared their damnation together. The Kölner Dom (Cologne Cathedral) was the perfect location from …
The Sex Gourmet – Damage (1992)
#5 Jeremy Irons & Juliette Binoche Having written four previous pieces on sex scenes which have toasted my loins, the time has come to vent spleen on a film where I have been left both frigid and entertained in the most unexpected way. And, it is with an amused and a slightly annoyed disposition that …
The Radical Blackness of Digable Planets
The story of Digable Planets begins during the late 1980’s in the culturally rich City of Brotherly Love. Ishmael ‘Butterfly’ Butler was based in Seattle, interning at Arthur Russell’s Sleeping Bag Records in New York, and intermittently visiting his grandmother and father in Philadelphia. Meanwhile, studying at the prestigious HBCU Howard University in Philadelphia, Craig …
Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995)
Middle school was a torment for me, and don’t try to tell me that middle school wasn’t a torment for you because I know you’re lying. For all, to a greater or lesser extent, middle school was a time of physical and emotional transformation. “Welcome to the Dollhouse”, directed by Todd Solondz, is the story …