Demanding Cultural Literacy Isn’t An Inherently Conservative Position
"I wholeheartedly agree with something that the great historical sociologist Orlando Patterson said in a summer teacher seminar: If you want to critique western...
Why CODA Should Indeed Win The Best Picture Oscar
"There is some sniffiness out there towards Coda as best picture material: the feeling that it’s too blatant a crowdpleaser, machine tooled to leave...
How Fans Forced A Finish To A Canceled Adaptation Of An Incomplete Jane Austen
The show was canceled in Britain, where the fan movement started - "a fan group called the Sanditon Sisterhood, which began a mass Twitter campaign."...
Broadway Fans Now Have Their Own Pop-Up Store
It is, of course, located in New York - in a corridor of the Columbus Circle subway station. It's "physical arm of the Broadway Makers...
Where To Turn When You’re A Breakout Movie Star Who Doesn’t Have A Ticket...
TikTok, of course. (But honestly, how the heck did this happen?) - Variety
The Last Time Campion And Spielberg Went Head To Head
That would be 1994, when The Piano and Schindler's List were up against each other for various things, and the directors were neck and...
The Joys Of Singing In Harmony With Others
"The voice is the oldest musical instrument of all – and the most complicated. At root it is just an exhaled breath, the noise...
Now The Movie Editors Group Is Calling For The Oscar To Reinstate Live Awards
The letter reads, "Treating certain categories differently from others has struck a nerve within our community, with the overwhelming majority of our membership feeling...
The Parents Of The Late Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins Are Trapped In Ukraine
The cinematographer was shot and killed as she filmed the movie Rust. Her widower "Matt Hutchins said in a tweet that his late wife's...
Need A Film That Truly Captures The Process Of Making Theatre?
Then you're in luck with Oscar nominee Drive My Car. The three-hour Japanese film is "an impeccably textured elucidation of a group of strangers...
Why Are Publishers Fighting Libraries So Very Hard On E-Books?
Maybe because people love them so much. No, seriously, what's up with all of the lobbying against state legislatures trying to give libraries...
The Myths Of Black Artists And Landscapes
Ingrid Pollard, a British photographer known for her portraits and landscapes, says, "Everything about is fabricated for industrial rural use. The barbed wire,...
Is Hollywood Souring On Streaming?
Matt Belloni: "The leading minds at media companies (and the consulting firms that nudge them) have convinced the C-suite trigger-pullers that if you spend...
The True Story Behind That Midge Maisel-Sophie Lennon Rivalry
Yes, Mrs. Maisel is ending soon, but there's always reality. "One of Midge Maisel's primary foils on the show — Sophie Lennon, played with...
Australia Is, For Some Reason, In The Midst Of A Handmade Ceramics Boom
Sure, some people are making midlife career changes, but for others, it's social media - and the coronavirus, as with a young potter whose...
What The Amazon-MGM Deal Means For Streaming
Amazon is trying to figure out how to take on Disney and WarnerMedia, probably with Rocky and James Bond spinoffs. The result, says one...
Author NoViolet Bulawayo On The Power Of Literature, And The Responsibility Of A Writer
The murder of George Floyd, and the protests, prompted her to rethink her own responsibilities. She says, "There are generations of freedom fighters who...
The Psychological History Of How, And Why, We Buy Stuff
Ideas and ways of shopping "fall by the wayside and then return at a later date in new guises or with new names. They...
Drive My Car Is Just A Movie About Grief And Love, Says Its Director
Just a multiple Oscar nominee and multiple other award-winning movie about grief and love, that is. "The last Japanese film-maker to be nominated for...
A Ukrainian Dancer Has Died Of Injuries Suffered From Russian Artillery Fire
"The 43-year-old principal dancer with the National Opera of Ukraine is the latest of several celebrities in the country that have been killed since...
Humans Can Only Experience Time In One Direction
Luckily, writing is different: "In poetry and in prose, time can warp, twist, and buckle." - The Atlantic
Should The Getty Return A Possibly Looted Piece To Pompeii?
It's a beautiful fragment, but "Prof Christos Tsirogiannis has a photograph of the same fresco fragment from the archive of Robert Hecht who died...
CODA Wins Producers Guild Award
The win has thrown "the race for this year’s best picture Oscar into chaos" as Academy Awards voting continues. It's possible that ranked-choice voting...
Peter Bowles, Longtime Character Actor And Star Of ‘To The Manor Born,’ Has Died...
A very British tale: "In a six-decade career, Mr. Bowles, who was the son of servants and grew up without indoor plumbing, appeared in...
Disney Apologizes Again, This Time For Hosting A Racist Dance Set
The dance performance "from a Texas high school’s drill team was laden with Native American stereotypes, including repeated chants of 'scalp them!'" - The...
