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Frederik Sisa, arts/entertainment/politics/culture: Resolved to use his powers of writing for good instead of evil, long-time contributor and assistant editor Frederik Sisa is The Front Page Online’s resident art critic as well as a political/cultural observer through his column The Recreational Nihilist. He also edits The Front Page Online's fashion blog The Fashionoclast. When not writing, he writes more, whether working as a marketing professional for a local architecture firm or feeding his blog. Want to drop him a line? Write to: fsisa@thefrontpageonline.com.
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ICT’s ‘The Clean House’ Is a Funny Place to LiveBy Frederik Sisa @ 10:00 AM September 01, 2010Matilde, a Brazilian live-in maid with an inconvenient disdain for housecleaning, would have been right at home in World War II efforts to weaponize humour. That is, if she occupied a vintage Monty Python sketch instead of Sarah Ruhl’s new play “The Clean House.” read |
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'Salt': FlatBy Frederik Sisa @ 4:00 PM July 30, 2010What ever happened to the humble vial of truth serum? A few drops of the stuff and suspects were chirpier than a colony of birds on a telephone wire. It was the epitome of spy movie interrogation technology. The real drama, of course, came from the pitting of mind vs. mind, spy vs. counterspy, in tense, unaided confrontations across a table. Now we get neural imaging devices that scan a suspect’s brain in real-time to root out deception, which is convenient as it illustrates how much technology — both real and speculative — has infiltrated our spy movies. Like the dilemma facing the intelligence services, people have given way to machines.read |
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‘The Sorcerer’s Apprentice’: Welcome Back, MagicBy Frederik Sisa @ 1:00 PM July 23, 2010Dismissed by many among the film cognoscenti as shallow spectacle and proclaimed a flop by the media for raking in a mere $24 million on its five-day opening weekend — Disney’s second misfire after “Prince of Persia” — “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” seems positioned for box office oblivion. read |
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Inception: Into the Maze We GoBy Frederik Sisa @ 1:00 PM July 16, 2010Handling dreams like Russian nested dolls is perhaps not, in itself, the most innovative concept given movies like “The Matrix,” “Nightmare on Elm Street” and “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.” read |
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The Butcher’s Thumb: Both Up and DownBy Frederik Sisa @ 10:00 AM July 14, 2010Here’s the foremost question underlying Greg Haas’ “The Butcher’s Thumb”: Does it work to excavate or exploit a wound still receptive to salt? Ten years after the 2000 elections, the country is still stuffed with Democrats and their supporters smarting, mutely, over Gore’s loss to Bush. Or, to put it bluntly, Bush’s theft of the election and the aftermath of his assuming the Presidency. read |