THOMAS WARD

As a people our hypocrite radar is functioning at an all time high level. We love hypocrisy. We hope for it, search for it, share it, like it, like it, share it, and get to say “See! He/She/It/They’re full of shit! I was right! I’ve been right along!” That's why it feels good. It feels good to be right. The environmentalist who uses a leer jet, the preacher who gets caught with a hooker, the republican who gets divorced again and again and again, the rich liberal, the

I saw BOYHOOD recently and was raving about it to my friend Wes Cunningham. He said that it was "meh" for him and he asked me why I liked it. I told him and he said I should "blog that shit." So here's what I said: (spoiler alert: I talk specifically about things that happen in the film) Hey Wes, I've been trying to figure out why I liked Boyhood so much. It's certainly all to do with the gimmick of it. Shooting over twelve years, watching a real kid grow up. After the