Arts Fuse Editor
What is the problem with this Rebecca? It is stunning to look at and well-crafted, but I sometimes felt as though the actors were striving for a tone more suitable to a film other than the one they were in.
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Sacha Baron Cohen uncovers enough destructive inanity in Borat II to justify the savagery of its satire of American ignorance.
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Open Mike Eagle may have written this album for himself, but many others will recognize themselves somewhere in his words and in his pain.
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Filled with galoots of all kinds, the novel might not have any true reason for existing, nor may it have any reason to end. But heck, it’s a good, old-fashioned, medicine show of a read.
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In the end, The Trial of the Chicago 7 strikes a reasonable balance between historical document and cinematic art.
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It’s as if Moshfegh is testing the furthest limits of a “red herring”: what if everything is red and everything is herring?
Swamp Thing is downright ornery, at times questioning political and corporate power as well as environmental protections.
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This fascinating book, and the rich literature of films and writings around it, have helped me feel a bit more positive about these shrunken times.
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Belushi is a warts-and-all look at one of comedy’s raging bulls.
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Visual Arts Commentary: America’s Historical Monuments — Under Reconsideration
The Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial is the latest product of our heated social/political/cultural debates about America’s memorials and their vision of the country’s past, present, and future.
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