Dear Friends, Due to unfortunate considerations of time and cost, Backwards City is no longer a print journal. However, we will maintain our presence on the web that, however meager, we hope you might enjoy.
Reviews of Things I've Read or Seen Lately, in the Form of Equations
Crash (movie): Everyone's-a-racist!-style characters + a decent story + a whole lot of plot contrivance = more-or-less worth seeing
The End of Faith (book): Occasional insights + many, many more unsupported assesrtions + a healthy dose of self-righteous ethnocentrism = avoid
The original Superman (rewatched for the first time in about fifteen years): childhood nostalgia + recognition even as a child that this movie sort of sucks + validation of both upon rewatching = perplexed anger that they can't get a Superman movie right