Review: Gomorrah The Series
After reading this review and when you sit back to watch the box set of “Gomorrah The Series,” take some time out to remember just how much some writers have to suffer for their art. Back in 2006...
Category: Europe
Tumblr of the Day: Discourse on the Otter
Anyone who has been near an undergrad philosophy class in the last 50 years will tell you that the theme of the Other has been a constant among the world's thinkers. From Marxism to...
The Niqab of the Paris Opera: A Tale of Censorship
Despite divergences of opinion amongst Muslim religious scholars as to whether covering the face of a woman in Islam is compulsory or not, practice testifies that many Muslim women customarily do....
Is Outlander the Feminist Answer to Game of Thrones?
Is Outlander ‘the feminist answer to Game of Thrones,’ as some people seem to be billing it? That would depend, one supposes, on which definition of feminism is being used. If ‘feminism’...
LFF 2014 Dispatch No 3: Thou Wast Mild and Lovely and History of Fear
The remarkable and sinister “Thou Wast Mild and Lovely” begins in abrupt fashion. Jeremiah a Kentucky farmer wrestles with his daughter Sarah. She stabs him with a headless chicken, an act both...
LFF 2014 Dispatch No 2: Fishing Without Nets, Flow and Jamie Marks is Dead.
Expanded from Cutter Hodierne’s own short film of the same name, “Fishing Without Nets” is the flipside of “Captain Phillips.” Hodierne explores Somali pirates from the point of view of...
LFF 2014 Dispatch No 1: Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films, Tokyo Tribe and The Man In The Orange Jacket.
Remember when movies were movies? Remember when voice–overs were the words of god on celluloid, balls out and bombastic? Remember Cannon Films? “Cannon Films the home of high power, high voltage...
Review: Ali Smith’s How to Be Both
Ali Smith’s latest novel was being tipped for the Man Booker longlist 12 months before it came out on some book blogs, and within days of its release, the zeitgeist had it that this was definitely...
An insight into South-Italian culture through the art of Angelo Formica
“So what this is all about?” is one of the frequent questions that people ask artist Angelo Formica. It’s no surprise. Even if in contemporary art provocation is the norm, to see a religious...
Downton Abbey Returns… But Do We Still Care?
Series five of Downton Abbey premiered in the UK on Sunday night, which normally would have had ISPs across the US humming as people furtively downloaded the hit British drama. Yet, something curious...