Neds (2010) – Don’t Let You Get the Best of You
David Simon has a lot to answer for. There was a time, around the turn of the millennium, when big institutions had their day in the sun: In foreign affairs, people began to look to the United Nations...
View ArticleWhat is a Fan? A Response to Justin
Justin Landon of Staffer’s Book Review has assembled some interesting thoughts on the apparent over-abundance of self-proclaimed (and predominantly unpublished) ‘writers’ in the genre community: During...
View ArticleThe Price of Institutional Racism
Yesterday morning, as part of my on-going mission to understand fandom and the history of its institutions, I came across an interesting article by someone named Helen McCarthy (Hopefully not that...
View ArticleREVIEW – The Armstrong Lie (2013)
FilmJuice have my review of Alex Gibney’s sports documentary The Armstrong Lie. I went into this film with quite a good impression of Gibney as a filmmaker. I loved his award-winning Taxi to the Dark...
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