The new millennium ushered in a politically charged and social media-obsessed society dominated by technology and an increased geopolitical awareness. Film has always been a cultural index, illustrating and amplifying the cultural climate in which we live. Just as Technicolor™ revolutionized Hollywood in the early 20th century, innovations in cinematic technique in the 2000s changed […]

The Swedish duo Korallreven’s A Dream Within A Dream mixtape is a well blended 25-minute abstraction of pure pop, taking some normally very mainstream tracks and twisting them out into Korallreven’s hazy, glittery worldview. Thank FADER for dropping this third mix in a series (peep one & two): “Their mammoth Britney Spears remix rolls in […]

In tribute to Inception re-emerging as one of the interweb’s overwhelming Memes of the Year (have you heard — it’s out on DVD!), a fellow named Weikang assembled the various levels of inceptions into one “real time” video, thereby distilling the entire film into the 4 minutes of which it actually took place.

Now that Inception — arguably the biggest Internet Meme Hit since LOLcats — has hit the DVD market you can watch and re-watch and re-watch the Christopher Nolan film until your eyes dry up into tiny raisins and you’re so sleep deprived that you actually think you’ve finally figured it out (you haven’t). But as […]

Madman Mundt and the Elf were guests at last week’s AFI Fest and attended the Los Angeles premier of Black Swan. This is their collaborative review. Black Swan is out in the US on December 1st. The Elf: I’m a sucker for a dance movie. Ballet specifically. Whether it’s Fame, Flashdance, Center Stage (starring a […]