Culture
To Pahatlabong and back: ‘The Explorers Club’ slow-roasts Victorian imperialism
June 6, 2024BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Victorian England in the 1860s and ’70s represented the height of the British Empire, a time when this devout Christian nation was torn apart by Darwinian science, which in turn inspired, in...
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‘The Dead Don’t Hurt’: Viggo Mortensen as Lord of the Gunslingers
June 5, 2024The thoughtful, left-leaning Western is well-acted and well-made, and in his second time up at bat as a writer/director, Viggo Mortensen proves that he’s much more than a mere lord of the rings.
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Meridel Le Sueur and ‘The Fetish of Being Outside’: A manifesto for writers
June 5, 2024Rescuing a lost but important 1935 article by the proletarian literary figure.
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‘Taking Venice’: How the U.S. did it
June 4, 2024The film is structured as a suspense story, though we know the conclusion before we even set foot in the theater. The musical score helps to keep viewers on the edge of their seats.
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Aristocrats, acrobats, anarchists, marriage proposals and a plane crash populate Shaw’s ‘Misalliance’
June 3, 2024Let the worldly wise tomfoolery and drollery unfold.
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