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Not a Hatchet Job: Review of Ronald Suny’s “Stalin: Passage to Revolution”
Stalin by Ronald Grigor Suny is not a hatchet-job on Stalin like many other works by liberal scholars. Based on...
Cornering a Predator, Bringing them Back Alive: Review of She Said and Thirteen Lives
If you ask me, two films that should definitely be in contention for best film at the Oscars this year are “She Said”...
Re: Dolly de Leon’s Nomination as Best Supporting Actress for the Golden Globes
Her performance in Triangle of Sadness, where she turns from a meek OFW to, well, a not-so-meek OFW, was superb and...
Spellbinding: Review of Decision to Leave by Park Chan Wook
The professional and the personal merge intricately to create a memorable story of crime and passion set in a Korea...
Towards 2042: Review of Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
Others have made the point that America has a caste system, but no one has made it as effectively as Isabel Wilkerson....
Emancipation Review
You can never fail with a story of someone successfully eluding those chasing him with bloodthirsty dogs. And if it’s...
Lady Chatterley, Senator Leila, and Patriarchy
Not a substitute for the experience of reading a great novel, but this is probably as good as a film adaptation of...
Weimar, Cabaret, and Babylon Berlin
Ever since I did my PhD dissertation, which compared counterrevolutions in Chile, Italy, and Germany, I have been...
Ideas, Even the Most Foolish, Have Consequences
Is the radical right pure hate and all emotion? Well, they may start from that, but humans that they are, some of them...
Krieg Ist Die Holle: Review of All Quiet on the Western Front
Like “War and Peace,” “All Quiet on the Western Front” is achieving the distinction of having the most film remakes of...
Marooned: Review of Triangle of Sadness
Ruben Ostlund’s “Triangle of Sadness” (2022), which received the Palme d’Or at Cannes, is a new take on a question...