Culture
‘Landman’ series a propaganda promo show for fossil fuel industry
December 12, 2024Billy Bob Thornton has thrown in his lot with the powers that be, the rich and powerful, the corporate interests of Big Oil.
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2024’s top 30 (and 5 worst) global television series: The pickings get slimmer (1)
December 11, 2024It’s been a strange television season. The general trend, continuing from last year, is trimming and cutting back as the streamers realize that streaming, though here to stay, is not the manna from heaven they thought...
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‘The 9 Lives of Barbara Dane’: Documentary on a progressive culture superwoman
December 10, 2024The world will have an opportunity to learn about this extraordinary human being, thanks to this seminal film and the efforts of those who knew and loved her.
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Trump’s at the door with an axe: 2024 seen through ‘The Shining’
December 9, 2024Remember the 1980 movie The Shining?
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Han Kang’s fight against violence, revisionism, and alienation
December 6, 2024On Dec. 10, Han Kang, a writer deeply attuned to Korea’s history of violence and resistance, will receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, becoming the second Korean and the first Asian woman to earn this honor.
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