Although Michael Jordan’s “Republicans buy sneakers too” (a statement he might not have actually said) is oft-cited as a juxtaposition to the very public activism from many contemporary athletes, he was definitely not the only star of the ‘90s finding oxygen and endorsements behind the both sides shield. Where a…
What is there left to say about Kanye West that hasn’t been said? If you’ve been living under a rock, or care enough about yourself to take social media sabbaticals, then you may not be aware that Kanye is out here tweeting everything he can think of. From theories on love to support of Donald Trump, no topic is…
A year after I first watched it—and a day after watching it again on HBO (which seems to have a networkwide mandate to show it 17 times a week now)—the part of Get Out that fucks with me the most is that after Chris discovers Rose’s collection of selfies with the black people she’s lured into lobotomy and slavery, I…
Looking at the success of Get Out, one would imagine that writer-director Jordan Peele knew what he was getting into when he started working on the project.
My question is: Has Tiger Woods ever not been in the sunken place?
That Get Out will compete as a comedy during awards season is not a surprise. Although packed with thrills and scares, it ultimately exists as social satire—which, while not always funny, is a form of comedy. Also, this comedy distinction makes it more likely to win within its categories. For myriad…
At this point, I wish that sports announcer-turned-perpetual wagging finger of respectability politics Sage Steele would just sit, really sit, and stare at the stirring teaspoon.
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson was only on his third stop of a two-day Miami visit when he got trapped in the elevator, but I’d like to think that the elevator was actually in “the sunken place.”
Imagine, if you can, the sheer terror of watching yourself descend into The Sunken Place. Your body suspended in a perpetual state of hypnagogia. Your mind lucid enough to be conscious of the fright and the dread of what's happening to your soul but too subdued — too horrifyingly and devastatingly paralytic — do to…
Maybe Kourtney Kardashian saw Get Out, or maybe she was subtweeting Scott Disick to get out for the 100th time. But Twitter definitely felt that it was ironic for a Kardashian to tweet about a movie involving a black man and a crazy white family.
