Culture
‘Past Lives’: Well-lived
July 6, 2023Through simple, direct narrative, writer/director Celine Song has deftly sketched a shaded palette of relationships.
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Apocalyptic TV and climate change: Don’t worry, be glum, part 2
July 5, 2023The final lesson of Snowpiercer is that if the world is shorn of its capitalist billionaires, its various and diverse peoples will find compromises that can yet save humanity.
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‘Joy Ride’ review: Raunchy comedy has heart and deeper meaning while still supplying laughs
July 3, 2023Joy Ride has themes of identity, sisterhood, and socio-political commentary but keeps the laughs coming.
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Apocalyptic TV and global warming: Don’t worry, be glum
June 30, 2023Fredric Jameson’s famous dictum that “It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism” has been taken up wholeheartedly by the makers of corporate television.
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Damien Geter’s ‘Justice Symphony’ needs to be performed and appreciated nationwide
June 29, 2023We had experienced something—dare I say it?—comparable, perhaps, to what Beethoven’s listeners heard in 1824.
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