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Nov 5, 2024 | 
full-stop.net | Selina Lee
[Pantheon; 2024]Bloomberg-era rezonings transformed New York City’s skyline and streetscape into a glass-and-steel jungle of luxury high-rises and pristine POPS (privately-owned public spaces) where office workers could scarf $14 salads. The legacy of these 2000s changes is most visible in a handful of neighborhoods.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
inreviewonline.com | Selina Lee |Luke Gorham
The world humanity leaves behind won’t be completely empty, despite our best attempts. There will be all the animals that manage to outlive a nuclear holocaust or an unrecognizable climate, and all the centuries of stuff — rusting cars, fallen satellites, mountains of plastic, and who knows what else — that will have accumulated during our brief, catastrophic reign as apex predators.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
inreviewonline.com | Selina Lee |Luke Gorham
A snakeskin tube top and cowboy hat. A belt worn on a bare midriff, above the belly button. And, of course, the famous white tutu. Who but the inimitable Patricia Field could come up with these bizarre, divisive, and now-iconic outfits? As a stylist and costume designer, the former NYC club kid is known for putting together ensembles from wildly disparate pieces that have no business looking good together — “until they do,” as actor Michael Urie explains. Her secret? They have to make her happy.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
inreviewonline.com | Selina Lee |Luke Gorham
Clowning on Juggalos (see what I did there?) can sometimes feel like punching down. Their intense fandom, centered around the Detroit-based horror-rap group Insane Clown Posse, is one of the original instances of stan culture, with the usual crop of hyper-specific signifiers that make zero sense to the uninitiated. But something about Juggalos specifically — The obsession with Faygo? The clown makeup? A heavily-mocked throwaway lyric about magnets? — sets them apart.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
inreviewonline.com | Selina Lee |Luke Gorham
How do you prove that you don’t speak a language? Especially when that language, English, is a tool of centuries-old oppression wielded by one of the largest global empires in history, and your mother tongue, Irish, is spoken by less than 10,000 people in a highly contested corner of the world?
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Jul 29, 2024 | 
inreviewonline.com | Selina Lee |Luke Gorham
It’s not surprising that an artist with a career as shape-shifting and genre-defying as Brian Eno would balk at receiving the conventional documentary treatment. After all, once footage hits the editing room floor, there’s no going back; the final product is just that — final.
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Jun 28, 2024 | 
inreviewonline.com | Selina Lee |Luke Gorham
American rock climbing has come a long way from its dirtbag origins in the ’70s and ’80s, and not just because it’s now an Olympic sport. What once started as a hobby for van-living hippies is now the playground of tech bros in high-end gyms, and the era of sheepishly downplaying mega ascents has been replaced by the pervasive presence of social media.
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Jun 19, 2024 | 
inreviewonline.com | Selina Lee |Luke Gorham
To the uninitiated, techno music might feel forbiddingly sterile, lacking the warmth of familiar analog instruments or the collaborative dynamic of bandmates, songwriters, and producers. What’s more, the lone figure of the DJ, sequestered above and away from the dance floor, can seem both intimidatingly aloof and annoyingly self-aggrandizing. However, diehard and casual ravers alike know that the dance floor isn’t where egos are displayed, but where they melt away.
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
inreviewonline.com | Selina Lee |Luke Gorham
Pop quiz, hotshot: if a city bus is rigged with explosives and speeding down the highway at 50mph, what is the probability that Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock are on board? This is the basic plot of Jan de Bont’s 1994 Speed, an action thriller that’s almost caveman-esque in its primal simplicity: go fast or go boom. Reeves stars as Jack Traven, a member of the LAPD bomb squad who’s having a very bad day, though it’s not all terrible.
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Jun 4, 2024 | 
inreviewonline.com | Selina Lee |Luke Gorham
By the time Alfonso Cuarón (Y Tu Mamá También) took over from Chris Columbus to direct Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, the third in the seven-book, eight-film fantasy juggernaut and the entry that many consider the series’ best, he had the unenviable task of juggling convoluted narrative needs, sky-high fan expectations, and skeptical critics — and he hadn’t even read the source material! Columbus’ two adaptations were wide-eyed fairy tales that introduced the principal characters...
