by Alex McIntyre The Locust Review is a project of the Locust Arts & Letters Collective, “published quarterly in an anachronistic newspaper format” and online. The collective defines itself as “an association of radical, critical irrealist and socialist artists,” and published the first issue of the Locust in Fall 2019. […]
“A Culture of Incompetence:” Public Records Lawsuit Spells Public Relations Nightmare
by Alice McIntyre Photo: John Carmichael Addresses the Board of Trustees in a July 2020 Virtual Meeting, THE EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE. On Aug. 26, former Cooper Point Journal news editor Daniel Vogel filed a lawsuit against The Evergreen State College and the State of Washington, alleging Evergreen “systematically and repeatedly […]
Spoiler Warning: Go Play Disco Elysium. Now. Posthaste.
By Alice McIntyre The 2019 role-playing game “Disco Elysium,” developed and published by ZA/UM, is phenomenal. This column has been, and will continue to be, essentially a place for me to gush about media I like and think CPJ readers ought to check out. On this occasion, though, I really […]
Spoiler Warning: Bullshit Jobs, Clerks, and Capitalist Realism
By Alice McIntyre Kevin Smith’s “Clerks” (1994) is one of my comfort movies, for sure. It chronicles the misadventures of Dante (Brian O’Halloran) and Randal (Jeff Anderson), two minimum-wage retail clerks in New Jersey. After being called in to cover another employee’s morning shift, Dante has a series of encounters […]
Spoiler Warning: It’s a Strange World – “Blue Velvet”
By Alice McIntyre Blue Velvet (1986) is the fourth feature film directed by David Lynch, and a new favorite of mine. It follows Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlan), a college student returning to his hometown of Lumberton, NC in the wake of his father’s near-fatal stroke. During his visit, he finds […]
Spoiler Warning: Of Wizards and Workers – “Хо́ббит”
By Alice McIntyre As a child I was, like many others, enthralled by Tolkien’s classic novel The Hobbit. To this day when I recall my father sitting on my bedside and delivering his personal rendition of Bilbo Baggins’ journey to the Lonely Mountain and back, a part of me becomes […]
Spoiler Warning: Videodrome
By Alice McIntyre Videodrome (1983), directed by David Cronenberg and starring James Woods, is a sci-fi horror classic. It chronicles the descent of TV executive Max Renn (Woods) into a derealized nightmare by way of the ultraviolent program known as, well, “Videodrome.” The film is well and truly terrifying—not only […]
Spoiler Warning: Sex, Power, and “Eyes Wide Shut”
by Alice McIntyre Eyes Wide Shut (1999), the last film directed by Stanley Kubrick, is a wonderful walk through an anxious maze. Based on the novel Traumnovelle by Arthur Schnitzler, Eyes Wide Shut follows the doctor Bill Harford (Tom Cruise) as he deals with the ramifications of jealousy. The night […]
Spoiler Warning: “Red Dawn” and the Remnants of Ronald Reagan
by Alice McIntyre “Red Dawn” (1984) is a delightful, paranoid trainwreck. The film, directed by John Milius and starring Patrick Swayze, depicts a group of high-school students at the outset of World War Three. Forming a guerrilla force named after their school mascot, the “Wolverines,” this plucky band tries to […]
Cops Off Campus!
Photo: The Internationalist by Alice McIntyre The Cooper Point Journal has, over the course of several years, documented struggles against police violence in our community on and off campus. It has documented police surveillance of students and made the public aware of the increasing militarization of Police Services at Evergreen, […]