Black Mirror makes us feel terrible for loving true crime

We are a society obsessed with murder most foul. From serial killers to kidnappers, mass murderers to family annihilators, true crime very much remains our genre du jour—so much so that a 2022 poll found that a whopping half of Americans enjoy blitzing through true-crime titles on streaming services, with another 13 percent going as far as to say it’s their favorite genre. Their favorite. Suck on that, drama, comedy, sci-fi, fantasy, and romance.Dermot Mulroney on possible actors strike, "Sec...

Black Mirror Review - Sixth Season

The sixth season of "Black Mirror," Charlie Brooker’s award-winning anthology series that Netflix turned into an original in 2016, might be the most inconsistent in the show’s history. At first, it’s tempting to dismiss it entirely as a production that’s past its sell-by date, especially given how much the world has changed in the four years since the last installment. Those feelings surface most of all when the season feels like something put together after Brooker put some hot-button topics...

Black Mirror Has Always Excelled at Dystopian Design—Here Are 5 ... - Yahoo News

Futuristic interior design in television and film has captivated audiences for decades. As early as the 1960s films like Barbarella and 2001: A Space Odyssey told us walls lined in metallic silvers, heavily minimal white spaces, and geometric shapes were going to be key parts of our home design. The future then was rooted in space (technology) and the unknown (possibility), and so space-age design became popular in homes and in film. It was meant to give viewers a visual representation of fut...

Black Mirror - Beyond the Sea - dark ending

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Canon-Breaking Easter Eggs in Black Mirror S6

Black Mirror is an anthology, but it’s never shied away from connecting its stories together. From Season 1 through Netflix’s interactive Bandersnatch, each self-contained tale always seems to tie into a handful of others. There was even a whole episode, "Black Museum," chock full of "artifacts" from other episodes. Season 6 is no different. In fact, this season might have more Easter Eggs than any other, including one that harkens all the way back to the very first episode. Streamberry Is Fu...

The Bride Wore Black

The Bride Wore Black (La Mariée était en noir) is a 1968 crime drama by Francois Truffaut.The Story: after witnessing the love of her life murdered on her wedding day, the bride (Jeanne Moreau) overcomes her depression and vows bloody revenge. One by one she attempts to track down and kill a group of men responsible for the death of her groom.The Bride Wore Black has quite a reputation. Possibly because it counts among Truffauts more accessible, more pop endeavours and presents an aesthetic a...

20best film noirs: From Double Indemnity to Shadow of a Doubt

The phrase film noir was first coined in 1946 by a group of French critics to describe the emerging movement of mainly black and white Hollywood films with dark, pessimistic themes and signature motifs such as alienated antiheroes, rain slicked streets, dark shadows and seductive femme fatales.Borrowing heavily from the hard-boiled but literary detective novels of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, film noir attracted some of cinema’s greatest craftsmen including Orson Welles, Howard Hawk...

黑影展 - Black, a Film Festival

2022.05.20 - 05.22 @ C-LAB - Taiwan Sound Lab                  Due to their opposing characteristics, light and dark have been employed throughout the history of filmmaking to create shadow and visual effects. However, the visual characteristics of "black" often make us "blind" to it. From a re-exploration of the development of filmmaking techniques, there is ubiquitous use of black in film production and screening, from the effects of metallic silver grains to the evolution of formal film la...

The cult of Black and white Cinematic Symbolism (Part 27)...

The cult of Black and white Cinematic Symbolism (Part 27)…How Louisiana’s "Dads On Duty" are dismissing myths of the absentee Black father, superstitions surrounding "triple sixes", debunking "The Batman", and what the movies "Swan Song", "A Journal for Jordan", and the 'Pixar' flick "Soul" ALL have in common."The white race is absolutely disagreeable to get along with in peace. No other people on the face of the earth have been able to get along with white people since white people have been...

'Black Narcissus' Blu-ray Review: The Criterion Collection

Blu-ray Review: Powell and Pressburger’s Black Narcissus on the Criterion Collection Black Narcissus, as with the remainder of Powell and Pressburger’s masterworks, is sound, hue, and shadow as holistic dramaturgy. By Joseph Jon Lanthier on July 18, 2010 Just as the stoic, skeletal holy man both defies and presides over the feverishly ecclesiastical business of the Palace of Mopu as an intransigent, blood-locked ghost, Black Narcissus impishly keeps watch over the Arch...

Mars Blackmon (person) by Billy - Everything2.com

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Mars Blackmon (person) See all of Mars Blackmon, no other writeups in this node. (person) by Billy Sun Apr 20 2003 at 18:44:06 Spike Lee character from Lee's 1986 film She's Gotta Have It, but more known for a series of Nike commercials with Michael Jordan in the late '80s and early '90s. In the movie, Blackmon is one of the three men battling for the attention of Nola Darling. Blackmon is a bike messenger from Brooklyn who talks...

Keum Suk Gendry-Kim on the Symbolism of Trees and the Power of Black and White Illustration

Keum Suk Gendry-Kim (The Waiting) and Alexander Chee (How to Write An Autobiographical Novel) spoke to one another as part of D+Q Live, a fall event series by the graphic novel publisher Drawn & Quarterly. The driving force behind November’s conversation was Gendry-Kim’s second English-language release, The Waiting, of which Chee has written: How can black and white drawings do this, you might ask. But maybe only black and white drawings can do this—Gendry-Kim offers us here a glimpse ...

Odysseus: A Man of Many Faces

Aug 17, 20205 minOdysseus: A Man of Many FacesUpdated: Dec 24, 2020From the beginning the Greeks’ poetry was intended to be sung or recited. The subject was myth—part legend, part folktale, part religious speculation and partly based on the shadowy memory of an era before the Greek adoption of writing circa seventh or eighth century BCE. People in Homer's day had no access to the sort of historical records on which we today depend, especially regarding the period when Agamemnon supposedly led...

Tom McCarthy: Adventures of the Black Box

Being​ much plagued by insomnia, some years ago I took to reading, as I tried to drift off to sleep, a collection of dialogues recovered from the flight recorders of crashed aeroplanes. These transcripts, rendered on the page in conventional dramatic format, followed a uniform narrative arc: a mishmash of cockpit directions, communication with air traffic control, and with passengers and stewardesses, banal chit-chat about family or food (Krispy Kreme donuts seem to be a favourite of US pilot...

Black Film Archive

Black Film Archive BLACK FILM ARCHIVE Black Film Archive is a living register of Black films. In its current iteration, it showcases Black films made from 1915 to 1979 currently streaming. ABOUT BLACK FILM ARCHIVE Black Film Archive celebrates the rich,...

Life in Black and White

Louise Beavers (left) and Fredi Washington in Imitation of Life, 1934 (Everett Collection) Emily Bernard, a Scholar contributing editor, is an essayist and the author of three books, most recently Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother’s Time, My Mother’s Time, and Mine, and editor of two others. Her essays have been reprinted in The Best American Essays and The Best Creative Nonfiction. This excerpt comes from her upcoming book, Unfinished Women: Eight Lives, in which sh...

“Pacific Rim: The Black” is Grim While Still Being Fun

Image: Netflix Pacific Rim: The Black Season 1 continues the story established in Guillermo del Toro’s blockbuster film franchise (Pacific Rim and Pacific Rim: Uprising). Set some time after the second film, Netflix’s brand-new anime series introduces us to teenage siblings Taylor and Hayley, who find an abandoned Jaeger and must use it to cross Australia in a search for their long-missing parents. The first episode of Pacific Rim: The Black Season 1 sets the sc...

Black Bear - Sarah Gadon and Christopher Abbott Talk Working With Aubrey Plaza, Balancing Tension, Filmmaking

Premiering back at Sundance 2020, "Black Bear"might not have made waves equal in size to some (hello "Minari" and "Palm Springs"), but it certainly caused a stir among critics. Ours called the dark meta-dramedy about filmmaking, "madly hysterical and intoxicating." While Aubrey Plaza leads the narrative in director Lawrence Michael Levine’s film about a would-be filmmaker looking for inspiration and scouting a scenic lakeside home for locations, Sarah Gadon and Christopher Abbott play the cou...

Black Widow

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2Black Widow (idea)See all of Black Widow, there are 7 more in this node.(idea)by TheDeadGuy Sat Sep 28 2002 at 4:58:33 Slow death on two legs. Sure, there may be a male variety, but the female variety is the course of study in today's class. We're not misogynists here. We're students of the game of life. There is a broader definition of the black widow which makes her out to be the kind of villain that kills her mate, mimicking the behavior of ...

The Point in Your Star Chart that Reveals Your Hidden Sexual Desires

The Point in Your Star Chart that Reveals Your Hidden Sexual DesiresPhoto by Marija Savic via Stocksy. Jeremy Corbyn's birth chart via planetaaleph.comAnyone who is into astrology can tell you that it involves studying the movements of the planets, as well as their mythology and overall meaning; however, those aren’t the only celestial bodies we astrologers look to. For instance, there are asteroids, minor planets, and aspects that play a crucial role in a person’s birth chart. Of these more ...

The Blackout (thing) by nf - Everything2.com

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 The Blackout (thing) See all of The Blackout, no other writeups in this node. (thing) by nf Fri May 10 2002 at 4:01:40 Black Books episode guide: The Blackout (episode 4) After being given an Espresso Machine, Manny stays up all night drinking coffee and watching the entire box set of The Sweeney, only to find himself in chase of a bag snatcher the following day. Mistaken for a police officer, he is taken down to the station to ai...

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Black Stone (thing) by Grayman

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 The Black Stone (thing) See all of The Black Stone, no other writeups in this node. See also: Kaaba (thing) by Grayman Sun Sep 29 2002 at 5:36:48 A Muslim object of veneration built into the eastern-facing corner of the Caaba. It predates the Islamic religion and is probably of meteoric origin although according to Islamic legend the stone was given to Adam on his fall from paradise (however some conflicting legends say it was give...

Burnt Orange heresy

Note that "burnt orange" could be a way to describe sepia, as in historic films from the 1930’s and before. -zas

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