Review: Zola
“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,...
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Planned obsolescence: how Degrassi stays relevant
In 1979, Linda Schuyler introduced The Kids of Degrassi Street to CBC Television in Canada. Spanning only one season of 26 episodes, the production was short lived, but it marked the beginning of the...
In The Earth: a frighteningly idiosyncratic tale of the weird and the eerie
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....
Headspace Guide to Meditation: the essential Netflix series for these unsettled times
Recent times have been challenging for everyone. We've all had to deal with different issues such as forced isolation, fear of getting sick, mental and physical health, loss of loved ones and...
Review: Wrath of Man
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...
Review: The Glass Castle
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...
Friends: the reunion every fan has been waiting for for over 17 years
In the last few minutes of the episode "The Last One", aired in May 2004, all Friends fans wept. In Monica's empty apartment, we saw the sextet that made audiences around the world laugh for 10 years...
Once Upon a Time in Venezuela: the documentary about the floating ghost town
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...
Review: Home by Yann Arthus-Bertrand
The documentary Home (2009) consists of three parts. Filmmaker Yann Arthus-Bertrand deals with various concepts with a poetic approach and captures spectacular and sometimes ugly images of nature and...
Review: Nomadland
There are times in Chloé Zhao’ s Nomadland where Frances McDormand’s face, lined and desperate, wistful and stoic seems to peer in from America’s Dust Bowl past to haunt its recent history....