Jessica Gibson, University of York As the 25th James Bond film No Time to Die hits the cinemas, we are once again reminded of the way that disability is depicted negatively in Hollywood films. The...
One of the most revelatory “social issues” docs to hit theaters this year (NYC and LA on September 17) is the provocatively titled Civil War (or, Who Do We Think We Are), the latest from veteran...
Twenty years on, perhaps the one thing our highly polarized American electorate can agree upon is that A) We don’t have the full truth about 9/11 (hence the public demand to release the government...
Of the many humiliations faced by Great Britain since deciding to inflict lingchi on ourselves by voting for Brexit, the misappropriation of cultural icons by the Tories and their splinter far-right...
Pier Kids, the latest doc from Elegance Bratton (executive producer and creator of Viceland’s My House) captures both the struggles and the joys of three queer and trans youth who make their home...
“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.” Who better than Émile Zola to comment on Janciza Bravo’s new movie and his namesake,...
The philosopher and celebrated pessimist, Eugene Thacker envisages the earth as, “the-world-without-us”, a world that is both, “impersonal and horrific” and disdainful of human existence....
When you think about male British actors in Hollywood, you can pretty much narrow them down into two distinct categories: the thespian and the movie star. The cultured thespians like Laurence Olivier...
The Walls family has many problems, but their biggest problem is that they do not know exactly what their problem is. Rex and Rose Mary, the parents, want to be free, and freedom for them means doing...
In Congo Mirador the floating houses decreased in number, the inhabitants took them away in boats to escape the sedimentation that prevented their daily activities. Today, the village is a ghost of...
