Culture
“The Shannara Chronicles” offers elves, magic, and Millennials
January 26, 2016Everything ancient is new again on The Shannara Chronicles, which caters to a very specific audience and is far better than it has any right to be.
Read more“The X-Files”: The nostalgia is out there, but is it good?
January 26, 2016The question is whether The X-Files, in its six-episode "event series," lives up to the hype, or holds a candle to the original.
Read moreSinging the praises of a Portuguese Holocaust hero
January 26, 2016Five years ago the Sousa Mendes Foundation commissioned composer Neely Bruce to write an oratorio about the Portuguese rescuer.
Read moreScreen Actors Guild Awards — the union alternative to the Oscars
January 25, 2016"Yes, it's glitzy and glamorous, but really it's about celebrating our union."
Read more“Aferim!”: The wild, wild East in film
January 22, 2016It has a number of genre conventions of the Western, though one could argue that the Romanian-set film should be called an "Eastern."
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