Category: Culture & Humanities
Down with ***! How the Soviet Union took on religion – in pictures
Marx said religion was the ***** of the people – and in the Soviet Union, atheism became government policy, enforced by the state and encouraged by anti-religious posters and magazines. These have been collected in a new book from Fuel called Godless U…
Terminator: Dark Fate review – Arnie’s back, and it’s never going to stop
James Cameron co-produces the latest in the humans v machines odyssey – featuring a fierce Linda Hamilton and Arnold Schwarzenegger as a cyborg Grandpa WaltonSo in Terminator’s beginning is his end and in his time-travel action franchise is the ending …
What Netflix’s biggest reveal tells us about what works and what doesn’t
The streaming giant has unveiled the most watched shows and films of the past year, suggesting what its future might look likeOne of the many disruptive qualities of so-called industry disruptor Netflix has been a lack of transparency over viewing figu…
Colbert: Trump hosting G7 ‘not just unbelievable, it’s unconstitutional’
Late-night hosts dig into Trump’s now-reversed decision to host the G7 summit at his own resort and his 71-minute press rantStephen Colbert returned to the Late Show after a vacation in New Zealand, which he said is “as far from the insatiable black ho…
Turbulent indigos: glorious Joni Mitchell watercolours – in pictures
In 1971, Mitchell gave 100 of her closest friends a handmade copy of The Christmas Book, a collection of early songs, poems and watercolours. It is now being published more than 40 years later by Canongate as Morning Glory on the Vine Continue reading…
We should feel sorry for Jared Leto. His Joker never had a chance
The actor’s Suicide Squad character had been sidelined long before Todd Phillips’s film starring Joaquin Phoenix as Batman’s arch enemy was greenlitWould it really be surprising that Jared Leto had tried to stop Todd Phillips’s Joker from being made? T…
Struggling with The Golden Notebook? The hard work is worth it
For every moment of high drama, there are also sections of intense tedium. But Doris Lessing’s masterpiece delivers a big payoffIn my edition of Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook, the text that forms the titular volume arrives on page 531. These clim…
Superhero films are ‘cynical exercise’ to make profits for corporations – Ken Loach
Director joins Martin Scorsese and Frances Ford Coppola in censuring industry, calling superhero movies commodities ‘like hamburgers’Ken Loach has joined the chorus of auteur directors criticising superhero movies, saying they have “nothing to do with …
The Rise of Skywalker trailer – five things we learned
In the final Star Wars movie, Kylo Ren is devilish, Palpatine is spooky, C-3PO pegs out, Jannah leads the charge and Rey sparklesBack in my day, jocks and nerds didn’t get along much, but it seems such old distinctions are now gone. Making its debut at…