There’s Something Wrong with Aunt Diane: What Morality, Medicine & Documentary Can’t
Acclaimed documentarian Liz Garbus‘s most recent documentary feature, There’s Something Wrong with Aunt Diane (which premiered this week...
Recovery Lifestyle, 2.0
Today witnesses the launch of TheFix.com, a new “sober lifestyles” site offering “addiction and recovery, straight up” (their words, not...
Los Angeles: City of No Surprises
Everyone, including the writer/director, producer, and stars of the film, had figured Debra Granik’s Winter’s Bone a long shot in all the...
POINTS Guide to the 83rd Annual Academy Awards
In case you hadn’t heard, the 83rd Annual Academy Awards will be distributed on Sunday evening. And even if you haven’t paid attention...
Disconnect: Moral Liberalization and Mass Incarceration
Note: The following is David Courtwright’s thoughtful response to my earlier post, in which I raised some questions about his recent...
RehabTV?
Television narrative has long mined drug and alcohol use and abuse for inciting incidents. As a plot device deployed to inaugurate...















