You’d be forgiven for thinking it the height of silliness to try and tease out some deep cultural truth from the contemporary action movie—an art form in which Sly Stallone mentioning that some kind of vague bad political and/or drug stuff sometimes goes on south of the border passes for trenchant political commentary. But then you may not be a fan of the action movies of one Jason Statham and you may not have had his most recent punch-fest, The Mechanic—an otherwise well paced, competently shot affair, with no wince-inducing dialogue and with plenty of stoic Statham ass-kicking—marred by the fact that the only gay character in the movie is stabbed to death, gruesomely, with a screwdriver. READ MORE

You know how long it takes to make a pizza? Ten minutes, you lazy little thing. Plus two hours. Sort of. READ MORE

Negating the negatory: "If the point of 'no homo' is truly, as Weiner argues, to slowly make hip-hop less heteronormative, censoring 'no homo' can only speed up the term's intended progress. Why not encourage rappers to express alternate interpretations of masculinity without an easily deconstructed verbal safety net?"