Titanic 3-D is yet another instance of James Cameron's belief in technology's recuperative power.
Bio: Mark Sussman is a writer and a doctoral candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center. He teaches American literature at Hunter College and lives in Brooklyn.
As the title screen fades in, the audience will cheer and then laughs at the irony of its own enthusiasm—many people came, after all, to enjoy a fully ironized experience. But something strange will happen around the two-hour mark, about two-thirds of the way through the film: as the ship begins to sink the audience will grow silent, and the laughter will stop. More
Posted on April 4th, 2012 10:05am
The show follows 20-something Jason Strider (Peter Vack) and his friends through the tribulations particular to their age and neighborhood. The upright and responsible couple Stacey and Eric (Elizabeth Hower and Jordan Carlos) are finishing med school and law school, respectively, while Tina (Kim Shaw) and Jason stumble through hook-ups, failed relationships, and mid-twenties malaise. Superficially, the show seems like another instance of an MTV teen/twenties sex-and-sentiment dramedy (cf. Undressed, Skins, and even the past decade or so of The Real World). In the pilot, Jason commiserates with Tina over his inability to get laid and ends up taking a girl home from the bar, after which she borrows a pair of his pants and leaves him with a fake phone number. His yearning after said pants and the girl who wore them—and all the stymied possibilities and disappointment they represent—constitutes the emotional through line for the show. Neither boyfriend jeans nor ex-girlfriend jeans, they're mere hook-up jeans. More
Posted on February 3rd, 2012 12:21pm
Despite the familiarity of Matt and Mavis’s friendship, Young Adult’s darkness keeps it from simply trudging down the well-worn path of belated teen romance. More
Posted on December 13th, 2011 4:12pm
