Feminism has a crucial role to play in modern life, but I sometimes wish it would leave our fairy tales alone. The results of its revisionist meddling are too often unconvincing and unsatisfying.
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05 July 2025
A central motif of the new horror film 28 Years Later is its statement about what normal looks like. From the outset, normality is encoded in the battle between normal humans vs abnormal, zombified ones. But another...
26 June 2025
This article first appeared on Reel Time with Richard Ades
One of my favorite movies of 2024 was The Seed of the Sacred Fig, about a family torn apart by Iran’s...
18 June 2025
This article first appeared on Reel Time with Richard Ades.
As a documentary about a woman who deals with trauma with the help of exercise, Jeannette reminds me of a...
10 June 2025
I would swear on the graves of my parents and four grandparents that this is the most common question from white people when a race-related incident occurs or the subject of race comes up. It is often asked with an exasperated tone of...
03 June 2025
When Donald Trump talked about immigrants eating people’s pets during a 2024 presidential debate, he was carrying on a longtime Republican campaign tactic: Win the votes of White Americans by scaring the hell out of them.
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