Handshakes & Mindquakes

Mere frat clubs or real deal-changers on the grand and global scale? Murky conspiracy strategists or beacons of individual liberty? Esoteric dreamers or intelligent architects of human development...

The Act of Killing: A Killer Documentary

Indonesia, 1965. Civil war and a military coup that led to over one million deaths in a mere year’s time. Then it just kept on rolling. The estimation is that 2,5 million people were killed by...

Nymphomaniac & Shame: A good feel-bad double bill

What happens when the sex drive goes into compensatory overdrive? Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac (2013) and Steve McQueen’s Shame (2011) show us just what, and therefore deserve to be...

Oh my God, it’s the Devil!

“Satan has been the best friend the Church has ever had, as He has kept it in business all these years!” Thus wrote Anton LaVey in his The Satanic Bible in 1969. And how true that has...

Happy New Year?

Another year passed by, as years usually do. For me, this one was almost too intense and too high-paced. All my own fault though. However, almost all of the things that happened were good, so I...