Variety, “Jake Gyllenhaal, ‘Life’ Director Daniel Espinosa to Reteam on ‘The Anarchists vs ISIS’”
The article tells the true story of a ragtag team of American volunteers, socialists, and outcasts, who are fighting alongside the Kurdish militia, known as the YPG, to beat ISIS in Syria and establish an anarchist collective amid the rubble of war. Continue Reading
Grazia Daily, “9 Things You Need To Know About Brit Marling”
Brit said: ‘We were young, hungry, and broke, and wanted to learn more about these ideas. We spent the summer traveling—train hopping cross-country, living on organic farms—and fell in with anarchist collectives and freegan groups. We were changed by that experience.’ Continue Reading
Inquisitr, “The Best Brit Award Moments of All Time”
Pop star anarchists Chumbawamba landed themselves in hot water when they threw a bucket of ice water over deputy prime minister John Prescot. Luckily for Chumbawamba, they didn’t throw eggs at the former boxer because then they would have had another “unlikely hit” on their hands. Continue Reading
The New Yorker, “‘Rectify’ is a Quiet Marvel”
Several of the best episodes are one-offs, featuring characters we never meet again. In one, Daniel drifts into the orbit of an antique dealer named Lezlie, a Pan-like anarchist, who invites anyone who is not a gentrifying yuppie—the class he regards as ruining Paulie—to party at his ramshackle house. In another, Daniel gets a ride […]
The New Yorker, “Isabelle Huppert’s Intellectual Sustenance in Mia Hansen-Løve’s “Things to Come””
En route to the classroom, she’s momentarily blocked by students protesting changes in the government’s retirement policy; inside, she gives a lesson that involves a quotation from Rousseau about democracy; and on the way out she’s visited by a former student, Fabien (Roman Kolinka), a talented young philosopher who writes for her monograph series but […]
KQED (Bay Area), “Cirque Du Soleil and Kinetic Arts Fall Deep Into the Dark Pleasures Of Circus”
The show starts with a full cast dance number and when the performers stand before us, you realize that artistic director Jaron Hollander’s notion of the circus is much closer to theater than is Cirque du Soleil’s. Here, we’re confronted with character types, not categories of performers. There’s an angry teen, an anarchist punk, a conservative […]
Chicago Sun Times, “‘Winterset’ a tale of guilt, innocence and justice denied”
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were Italian-American anarchists and immigrants who were convicted of murdering a guard and a paymaster during the armed robbery of a Massachusetts shoe company in 1920. Their case attracted international attention, for despite appeals in which recanted testimony, conflicting ballistics evidence, a prejudicial pre-trial statement by the jury foreman, and a […]
Time, “Review: ‘Watch Dogs 2’ Breaks as Many Things as It Fixes”
That would be something, by the way, if the protagonist turned out to be an alien from another planet gifted with crazy abilities, or just a dude with paranormal powers. But no, we’re meant to understand the character we play in Ubisoft’s open world hack-a-palooza in abstract: an elite cybercriminal amidst fellow anarchists fomenting a […]
LA Times, “Wealth disparity, hackers and cyber threats in Mr. Robot,” May 29, 2015
Wealth disparity, hackers and cyber threats in Mr. Robot by Alan Eyerly, LA Times, May 29, 2015 Luring Elliot into the realm of cyberterrorism is Christian Slater’s character of Mr. Robot, the leader of a New York-based anarchist group. If Mr. Robot succeeds with his audacious plan, he’ll bring about “the single biggest incident of […]