The driving forces behind the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which have largely remained the same for over 75 years, are now evolving through the platforms it’s being reported on in recent years. Many people are now consuming the news through social media and websites on portable devices. However, the new movie September 5 is showing how an…
©Courtesy of Warner Brothers Even in Middle Earth, 183 years represents a long time for mere mortals. However, it is a manageable span for a powerful wizard. That is how a critical character from the original Lord of the Rings trilogy (and his immediately recognizable voice) could re-appear, but only for a brief cameo, in…
©Courtesy of Crunchyroll Video games are a brutal meritocracy. Your stats and levels are a direct result of your past play. The only way to raise them is by upping your game. However, Sung Jinwoo exists in a video game-inspired world, where the “player-characters” are blessed or cursed with very different starting endowments. Sung was…
©Courtesy of Netflix The slaying of six-year-old JonBenét Ramsey remains one of the great unsolved mysteries of our day. The young girl, a precocious child who had starred in beauty pageants and talent contests, was found dead by her father in her bedroom in their Boulder, Colorado home on the morning after Christmas 1996. According…
In the latest installment of “Above the Line vs. Below the Line,” film critics Matthew Schuchman and Edward Douglas discuss Robert Eggers’ new remake of Nosferatu, a movie that the filmmaker behind The VVitch, The Lighthouse, and The Northman has been wanting to make for thirty years. Nosferatu stars Timothy Hoult and Lily-Rose Depp as…
As I watched the poignant and powerful Queendom, I could not help thinking of “the personal is the political,” a catchphrase from the 1970s that was often used by feminists to validate the importance of personal, lived experience in the struggle to liberate themselves from oppressive structural systems. Agniia Galdanova‘s documentary, which was screened last…
©Courtesy of A24 Described by its producers as the story of “a cosmic and precarious love between two American expats in midcentury Mexico City,” Luca Guadagnino‘s Queer is a breathtaking adaptation of the eponymous novel that William S Burroughs had begun writing in the 1950s though it was not published until 1985. Starring Daniel Craig…
Photo by Disney/DISNEY – © 2024 Disney Enterprises, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Original Moana, after earning universal acclaim and more than $600 million worldwide, finally Moana is back! Moana has transitioned from being the youngest daughter of the island tribe’s leader to being the co-chieftain of her father after reversing an ancient curse on the goddess of nature. Now,…
Society preaches the importance of caring for everyone, no matter what circumstances they find themselves in, during the current holiday season. But once the new year begins, many people’s consideration for those who are less fortunate seems to become quickly forgotten. The new emotionally gripping drama, No Address, showcases how people who experience homelessness are…
Photo by Alan Roskyn/Netflix – © 2024 Netflix, Inc. I could still see it with the same vividness as yesterday…That was a first-time I laid my eyes on Ayrton Senna on TV, and everyone was anticipating his best performance in Japan, especially since he secured the pole position in the 1988 F1 Japan Grand Prix, despite…
Who knew that a film about accountants, bureaucrats, and municipal bond offerings could ever be interesting, let alone downright enjoyable? After all, hasn’t economics often been referred to as the “dismal science”? Despite its lugubrious title, Drop Dead City is actually quite an undismal description of how New York City was driven into near-bankruptcy half…
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