Noah Berlatsky

The surface text of the film is that you can't trust some guys. The (barely) subtext is that you can't trust any guys.

Genre boundaries are conscious of race—and, in the case of rock, conscious of gender too.

Conservative fetishization of the past is myopic, simplistic, and mean-spirited—but progressives can be too quick to cede tradition.

Action movies don't usually bother much with romance. The trailer for The Transporter: Refueled certainly doesn't. The hero is cool — sexy women, plural, throw themselves at him, or at least stand near him and things blow up; there are fights and revenge and high production values. Romance is, at best, a secondary concern.

Lower your standards, live in moderate amounts of filth, and go to bed early. The cat will thank you.

Feminist dystopia at its finest. Joanna Russ imagines a world in which the elimination of gender hierarchy leads to freedom, strength, and power.

A Ghostbusters with a female cast is a thorough violation of the spirit of the original. And that's a good thing.

Why should prostitution be illegal? And, more specifically why should male prostitution be illegal?

In the U.S., anti-Semitism is universally condemned. This means that, effectively, anti-Semitism doesn't exist.

Writing can be hard and uncomfortable and precarious—but it's hard and uncomfortable and precarious in the way that any job can be.