Bringing Back Chillwave via The New Criticism

As y'all know, R. and I have chosen to loosen the reigns of this blog a little [via hipsterrunoff.com] and as our brand evolves, we will be writing in more authentic styles. From now on, R. and I will use the #chillwave tag to signify writing of ours that is truly relevant.

Here's an informed piece of award-show core criticism I wrote for a chill blog:

Shout Fire Film Society

via [UMD "Film" Society]:

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association could have catered to the socially conscious-inspiration fiends and chosen Precious — if only to see how many tears M'o'nique had left. The shadowy organization full of bros this reporter has never heard of could have also pretended it was 2k7 all over again and chosen the darkest film of the lot, The Hurt Locker. Finally, the foreign bros could have given maltstream Hollywood (formerly known as middle-brow or Spielberg/Hanks-ville) what it wanted and rewarded quality, personal filmmaking via Up In the Air or Inglorious Basterds. Instead, they "chose" everyone's favorite blue-alien-billion-and-a-half-dollar behemoth, Avatar as the best movie of the year. Make no mistake, award shows exist to value "relevance" over "authenticity" and "positive" films over "meaningful" ones.

- Vman