• Civil War review – Alex Garland’s immersive yet dispassionate war film

    The writer-director’s much-anticipated look at the horrors of an America violently divided is an impressive technical feat yet an emotionally cold drama‘We know why it might happen’: Alex Garland’s explosive thriller Civil War premieresCivil War, Alex Garland’s hotly anticipated dystopian drama on an America divided by military conflict, knows what we’re looking for. The film opens with the president (Nick Offerman) in profile, practicing lines as he prepares to address the nation. His...

  • SXSW review: Civil War

    There is an inherent audacity in making a film like Civil War, even before writer-director Alex Garland starts to lay out the finer points of his near-future thriller. At a time when the atrocities of war are unfolding in multiple places around the world, and our own country feels perched on the kind of knife’s edge where just about anything could happen, it’s a bold move to make such a film, particularly outside of the more exploitation-heavy genre flights of things like The Purge. Treating a...

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    ‘Star Wars: Dark Droids’ review

    Any fan of Star Wars can easily pick this up and find something to appreciate.

  • Waxahatchee: Tigers Blood Album Review

    Carrying forth the Southern sound of Saint Cloud, Katie Crutchfield does it

  • At the Heritage Foundation, the anti-DEI crusade is part of a bigger war

    Last week, I attended an event at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, DC, focused on “seizing the moment to defeat DEI.” I have written before about the right’s use of the acronym as a codeword to attack social progress generally and the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 specifically. The panel at Heritage—a think tank […]

  • The anti-war protest secured a huge primary vote. What happens next?

    Thousands registered their opinion against the war in Gaza through the ballot, showing Biden it could sway the electionA key Democratic voting bloc intensely focused on Joe Biden’s support for Israel in the war on Gaza could sway the 2024 election in November – depending on what happens in the war and how Biden works to win back these voters.The anti-war vote has shown in recent weeks that it is both organized and effective at using its voice at the polls, displaying one of the most effective...

  • Enzo Mari review – the anarchic Italian at war with design world ‘pornography’

    Design Museum, LondonFrom his steel-bar fruit bowl to his troop of wooden animals, the combative creator railed against ‘the rampant consumption of luxury furniture’ – despite his own hefty price tagsShortly before the maverick Italian designer Enzo Mari died in 2020, he donated his archive to the city of Milan with one condition: it must remain closed for the next 40 years. It would take at least that long, Mari argued, “before we have a new generation that is not as spoilt as today’s...

  • ‘We Were the Lucky Ones’ Is a Gutting and Thoughtful Depiction of a Jewish Family in the Holocaust: TV Review

    Popular on Variety There has been no shortage of television series centering the horrors of the Holocaust. Last year alone, Netflix’s “Transatlantic” depicted a group of resistors living in Marseille, and National Geographic’s “A Small Light” offered a retelling of Anne Frank’s experience through the eyes of Miep Gies, the woman who aided the Franks […]

  • Winnie The Pooh: Blood And Honey 2 review: the bear necessities for a good time

    If the original Winnie The Pooh: Blood And Honey, as the exact same movie, had been made in Italy during the ‘70s, it’s just the sort of film Quentin Tarantino would be hailing as a lost masterpiece today. Frankly, it’s been hilarious watching fellow Gen-X critics, who grew up in the heyday of slasher sequels on VHS, rushing to turn their noses down at this ultra-low-budget gorefest with a gimmick. With time, all horror becomes respectable and Scream Factory deluxe blu-ray worthy, and we’re not...

  • Ukraine war briefing: anti-Putin forces behind raids into Russia speak out

    Discharge petition backing Ukraine funding rolls on in US Congress with first Republican signature. What we know on day 758See all our coverage of the war in Ukraine Continue reading

  • PODCAST: ‘Love Lies Bleeding’ Review: A Revenge Thriller Drenched in Sweat and Tension

    In the latest episode of Rewind of the Living Dead, we’re going to pump some iron and oil up our pecs as we review the 2024 film “Love Lies Bleeding”