When history is being made, you focus on the mundane details, such as the snow that swirled down on election day in Kyiv. At the local voting precinct, the first representatives of the electorate to...
Media images appear to be prime motivation this week in a collective, mobilized response underscored by Western guilt. Bombarded with dust-covered corpses, blood and broken bones, and bodies rotting...
Another day, another apocalypse. This time it’s the turn of that sporadic directing team, the Hughes Brothers, to unleash the fire and brimstone upon the good ol' US of A. The instrument of their...
The latest move by internet search behemoth Google is to pull the plug on its Chinese operations. The tech outfit had a hissy fit when it discovered the Chinese government had infiltrated its servers...
Relief efforts throughout the globe are being organized to support Haiti as it recovers from the most severe earthquake disaster (7.0 magnitude) in over two centuries. Though official counts are...
Sometimes movie gets it so right you want grab the screen by its imaginary collars and drag it passionately toward you. For a fleeting, transitory moment, the film is yours and yours alone; it’s...
With the all the newspaper ink dedicated to a historic economic decline and record-breaking figures for drug murders, there's not been a lot of leftover attention for polarizing social issues in...
It has been a busy year in Irish politics – and hectic to say the least: first the never-ending revelations into Catholic sex abuse finally implicated the state, then the public was treated to the...
Has the old battle cry “The personal is political” been taken too far or perhaps, too literally? More importantly, have our politics descended into a form of narcissism, of trying to purify...
When we watch post-apocalyptic fare like “Dawn Of The Dead” or the “Mad Max” trilogy, we all secretly wish we could be in that situation, just for a little bit. We come out of the cinema...
