This year the Quais du Polar in Lyon, the largest European festival of crime novels and one of the largest in the world, in celebrating its 20th... Continue reading
Dennis Broe outlines 3 Body Problem’s imperialist problem. Image above: the Chinese Cultural Revolution as a moment of chaos In Culture and Imperialism, Palestinian scholar Edward Said details... Continue reading
Jonathan Glazer is the Academy Award and BAFTA winning director of Zone of Interest, a film that highlights the “dehumanization” going on outside the Nazi death camp... Continue reading
All Hail the Uni Party: Democans and Republicrats As the range of debate between the two parties in the U.S. shrinks, election season becomes a time of... Continue reading
Dennis Broe discusses the opposition between corporate and alternative media, now and in the 1950s. Image above: Charlotta Bass, editor of The California Eagle Today with the wars on... Continue reading
Dennis Broe reviews The Way. Above image: Owen brandishing King Arthur’s sword – Mandalorian much? “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore,” about-to-be-fired news... Continue reading
There are always calls from the right to defund the British Broadcasting Company but they are now being joined by calls from the left as well, as... Continue reading
Dennis Broe explains how profit-making has cut corners in movie-making, especially since the pandemic. Image above: Grizzled outlaw Alec Baldwin One of the more hilarious moments of the... Continue reading
Dennis Broe gives us a brief tour of Vienna: its history, museums and galleries. Above image: the restored Wien Museum, site of a city grappling with its... Continue reading
A simple four-part television series, Mr. Bates vs The Post Office, has prompted the head of that agency to give back her title as a CBE (Commander... Continue reading