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.
Remember last year’s ...
16 July 2025
In a city that paved over its history, Z.F. Taylor is putting it back on stage.
The idea for the Legacy Series didn’t start in a theater. It began with a conversation with local business...
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...
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