• Review: Europe’s New VW Tiguan Thinks It’s Wolfsburg’s BMW X1

    SUV was VW’s most popular vehicle globally last time around, and this one takes some important steps forward

  • Knife review: Salman Rushdie’s memoir is a reckoning with his reader – and it’s written with resentment

    Salman Rushdie's Knife is a reckoning with his reader, and it is written with resentment, writes Anna Moloney.

  • Editor’s Pick: National Review’s Geraghty Takes Blowtorch to NPR Over Berliner Debacle

    Writing Thursday morning over at National Review in the Morning Jolt newsletter, senior writer Jim Geraghty went postal on taxpayer-funded National Public Radio (NPR) over its handling of now-former senior business editor Uri Berliner’s bombshell essay for The Free Press meticulously dismantling NPR for its decades of liberal media bias. Geraghty (correctly) stated it’s been “refreshingly honest” to see how “NPR responded to the revelations and accusations of 25-year veteran Uri Berliner” with...

  • Editor’s Pick: National Review’s Geraghty Takes Blowtorch to NPR Over Berliner Debacle

    Writing Thursday morning over at National Review in the Morning Jolt newsletter, senior writer Jim Geraghty went postal on taxpayer-funded National Public Radio (NPR) over its handling of now-former senior business editor Uri Berliner’s bombshell essay for The Free Press meticulously dismantling NPR for its decades of liberal media bias. Geraghty (correctly) stated it’s been “refreshingly honest” to see how “NPR responded to the revelations and accusations of 25-year veteran Uri Berliner” with...

  • Ife Olujobi’s ‘Jordans’ Theater Review

    Ife Olujobi’s claws-out satire doesn’t quite reach the tragic potential of its DEI-in-the-workplace premise.

  • Movie Review – There’s Still Tomorrow (2023)

    There’s Still Tomorrow, 2023. Directed by Paola Cortellesi. Starring Paola Cortellesi, Valerio Mastandrea, Romana Maggiora Vergano, Emanuela Fanelli, Giorgio Colangeli, and Vinicio Marchioni. SYNOPSIS: Trying to escape from the patriarchy in the Italian post-war society, Delia plots an act of rebellion against her violent husband. Italian Cinema has had its share of triumphs over the […] From blockbuster Hollywood movies to independent and British cinema, Flickering Myth has you covered. Read...

  • ‘Challengers’ Review: It’s Almost a Sexy Movie

    Just like it’s almost a good tennis film, and almost the mature starring role Zendaya needed.

  • Theater Review: Abe Koogler’s ‘Staff Meal’

    A play about restaurant-making that’s likely to resonate with any underpaid, overwhelmed, hyperpassionate, exhausted creator.

  • 4K Ultra HD Review – Ocean’s Trilogy

    Ocean’s Trilogy Directed by Steven Soderbergh. Starring George Clooney, Matt Damon, Andy García, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, Casey Affleck, Scott Caan, Elliott Gould, Bernie Mac, Carl Reiner, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Don Cheadle, Vincent Cassel, Eddie Jemison, Qin Shaobo, Ellen Barkin, and Al Pacino. SYNOPSIS: The Ocean’s Trilogy, consisting of Ocean’s Eleven, Ocean’s Twelve, and Ocean’s Thirteen, […] From blockbuster Hollywood movies to independent and British cinema, Flickering Myth has you...

  • The Clown Must Die: a Review of Rushdie’s Knife

    “Conversely, imagine “the enemy” as conceived by a man of ressentiment—and here precisely is his deed, his creation: he has conceived “the evil enemy,” “the evil one”—and indeed as the fundamental concept frem which he then derives, as an afterimage and counterinstance, a “good one’—himself.” – Nietzsche Salman Rushdie is a funny guy. I wouldn’t say More

  • Taylor Swift’s “The Tortured Poets Department,” Reviewed

    This month, Swift released “The Tortured Poets Department,” her eleventh studio album. She has now reached a level of virtuosity within her genre that feels nearly immutable—she’s too practiced, too masterly, to swing and really miss. But “The Tortured Poets Department” suffers from being too long (two hours after it was released, Swift announced a second disk, bringing the total number of tracks to thirty-one) and too familiar. Swift co-wrote most of the record with Jack Antonoff and with Aaron...

  • What implications does England’s review of trans healthcare have for Australia?

    Australian experts defend 'holistic, gender-affirming' approach to