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I recently saw Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Twice. (Don’t judge my ways.) The first time was at The Grand Lake Theater in Oakland, California with my group of friends.…

By Jonty Tiplady Bowie, Rickman, Rivette. ‘We’re losing them all’, Masha Tupitsyn emails me, in one of those quick messages that accumulate like lightning dabs when someone disappears, when you are…

In a recent conversation with friends concerning the best-selling albums of all time, something struck me as a bit odd. Beyond the Dark Sides and Thrillers of suburban ineptitude sat…

2015 has been a big year for television. While some long running shows came to a close, like Mad Men and Parks & Recreation, Netflix threw down so many new shows that…

1.) Crimson Peak Crimson Peak, the 2015 gothic horror film by Guillermo del Toro, is an absolute delight. It’s moody in that singular del Toro fashion, heavy on ooze and…

“The Sound” MARK EHLING is a person on Earth. He is the author of River Dead of Minneapolis Scavenged by Teenagers, a book of short stories, monologues, and dialogues in comics…

I’ve never wanted to outwardly define Penny-Ante beyond the obvious: “Penny-Ante is a book publisher and an art-based project company.” It’s fairly simple. The press acts in earnest to develop projects we feel deserve an audience. I don’t think a further directive would do any service to the authors. All our authors are independent thinkers and unique personalities who speak boldly for their oeuvre; one of many reasons the press serves their efforts.

Something new for the new year. On my site I made a bunch of resolutions, but the important one, with regard to this, has to do with me watching a film…

1 I want to begin by unpacking a fixed idea about transnational movement and influence. We tend to think about global influence as moving from the United States outwards. In…

Night Moves is a movie by director Kelly Reichardt. Reichardt is probably one of the most distinctive auteurs in contemporary American film. Her films take up the American West as…

For those of us in our 20s and 30s, the death of Robin Williams felt like the death of a childhood. In the city of Los Angeles, where I reside,…