On Wednesday 7th of January, Paris made headlines worldwide when two armed men burst into the headquarters of the anarchist satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo to kill the cartoonists they deemed...
At Sunday’s Golden Globes ceremony, Amazon series Transparent took two awards: best comedy or musical series, and best actor in a comedy series (Jeffrey Tambor). The world promptly took to the...
Marcus Aurelius, the last of the Five Good Emperors, commented that “the art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.” What is more tragic than the forlorn shadow of a fallen athlete...
Nobody can say that Angelina Jolie doesn't love her subjects. Watching Jolie's Unbroken, a WW2 drama about US soldier Louis Zamperini’s imprisonment in a Japanese labor camp, it was impossible not...
Terry Gilliam is famous for his bizarre, fractal, mysterious approach to filmmaking, whether he’s adapting from texts like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas or developing original content. No matter...
What is it with back-stories? Every self-respecting superhero seems to need one and preferably the darker the better. The origin of this and the origin of that, why can’t they just be? Who said we...
Northeast of Syria's largest city Aleppo sits the small town of Dabiq. Before the war which continues to ravage Syria began in 2011 its population was below 4,000. It is noteworthy for the simple...
The US is in an ecstasy of delight: At precisely the moment when everyone is done with their families, desperate for a reason to retreat into their bunkholes, and starting to weary of vacation, the...
Thorin Oakenshield stalks the great halls of Erebor like a Shakespearian king, tragedy draped around his shoulders. This doom-laden cloak threatens to drag the King Under The Mountain into a quagmire...
One of the books on my New Year reading list is Sari Botton’s award-winning anthology “Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York,” whose contributors include everyone from...
