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“Rick and Morty” has come a long way. Starting as a webseries about parodied versions of Doc Brown and Marty McFly from “Back to the Future,” the first episode was centered on Marty licking Doc’s balls to get them both out of trouble. The show was a twisted yet humorous
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Tuning into the season premiere of “Mad Men,” audiences might have expected another showcase of whiskey-soaked, midcentury cool from one of our dapper protagonists. Instead, “Time Zones” starts off in a room in Sterling Cooper & Partners, muffled by a gloomy, stifling winter sky. Freddy Rumsen (Joel Murray) stares us
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When attempting to provide an unbiased outlook on the United States government and its politics, where does one begin? For Heidi Boghosian, executive director of the National Lawyers Guild and author of “Spying on Democracy: Government Surveillance, Corporate Power and Public Resistance,” the investigation hinges on its undisclosed facts. Boghosian’s
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I sat down in my desk chair, opened up my computer and clicked on the Coachella live stream on YouTube. As has been my tradition the past few years, I began to pretend I was actually there. And, just by pretending, I was able to enjoy the music and the
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Planet Booty wants you to know that they’re not just a joke band. Even though they don skimpy sailor costumes and write songs about — who would’ve thought — booties, they are taking their sound in a more serious direction come June 2, when their second full-length album, Future Sweat,
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Wally Pfister made it a point to emphasize to the audience that “Transcendence,” his directorial debut, was a sci-fi thriller meant as entertainment. The film, starring Johnny Depp, Rebecca Hall and Paul Bettany, revolves around the possibility of uploading a human consciousness to a computer. At an event April 9
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When Sarah Shourd, Shane Bauer and Joshua Fattal took a hiking trip through Iraqi Kurdistan in 2009, the last thing they expected was political imprisonment in Iran. What ensued was a two-year struggle for freedom in the midst of a geopolitical conflict between the United States and Iran. The “detention
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Oski would be proud of the new Disneynature film “Bears.” This documentary promises bears, and it does not disappoint. Not only does the movie provide the cuteness and the knowledge one would expect from a documentary about a mama brown bear and her newborn cubs, but it goes further, giving
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“My job as an artist was not to impose my idea on the people of the United States but to open a platform to connect (the ideas of the conflict zone versus the comfort zone, ascetic pleasure versus pain, and the virtual versus the physical), to open a discussion,” said
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Serial killer and Santa impersonator George R. R. Martin, who authored last night’s episode, continued his ruthless killing streak on the latest episode of “Game of Thrones.” Two great tragedies befell the world in “The Lion and the Rose”: We were not blessed by the presence of Daenerys Stormborn of House
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