Since cultivating, maintaining, and irrigating terraces require heavy human labor and labor’s full cooperation, people have to settle together in a village to cope with complicated farm work [51]. A village usually has one significant ethnic minority, which makes up the majority of the ...
The obvious points of the movie are made quickly: That Ray is a liar and a con man, and his daughters are being raised in a world of self-deception and uncertainty. The deeper points emerge more slowly: When there is real love in a family, it can absorb many wounds. As Sonya’s te...
Not long before, he had done a rather nice soundtrack to a movie called Siesta with Marcus Miller. But his band merely played funk abominations while Miles shuffled around on stage, occasionally tooting his horn. The whole thing had the feel of senility, like his management was exploiting a...
Reviewed by Dennis Schwartz Anthony Drazan (“Zebrahead”/”Hurlyburly“)sensitively directs this all too familiar coming-of-age story, that he keeps emotionally honest and gets great performances out of his stars.But it’s all too predictable, never reaches any depth in its insights, and I ...
The use of a low-angle perspective, and the zoom in of the camera from a full shot to a medium one, both magnify their presence. Their bodies stand out against a marble wall bathed in a dark blue and cold light. In this surrealist vignette, Beyoncé creates eye-catching correspondence ...
intersectional cosmopolitanism that def inesthe limits of the Bondian universe. Thus, in 2019, we have come full circleby drawing our attention to the online reaction to rumors that a blackwoman, Lashana Lynch, may be the next 007. As expected, there is muchcontroversy about this latest racia...
Harrold's 2014 novel of the same name, it is Studio Ponoc's first full-length animated film since Mary and the Witch's Flower (2017). The Japanese voice cast includes Kokoro Terada, Rio Suzuki, Sakura Ando, Riisa Naka, Takayuki Yamada, Atsuko Takahata and Issey Ogata. The narrative ...