Black soldiers have fought alongside white soldiers for America in many wars, but come home only to find they have to fight for their lives in a different way. That's the message of Dee Rees' powerful drama, set after World War II. White soldier Jamie McAllen (Garrett Hedlund) and blac...
Book Review - The Black Swan (Random House, New York, 2007, 366 pages (hardback) ISBN 978-1-4000-6351-2)'Before the discovery of Australia', the book commences, 'people in the Old World were convinced that all swans were white, an unassailable belief as it seemed completely confirmed ...
Yet, her path seems set and small, even amid the dazzling possibilities of 1950s New York City. She'll probably marry some man, have kids, and then become like the vacuous women who swan around the department store where she works. That is until she meets Carol, an elegant vision of ...
I am a sucker for the 80’s spiced chypric fruity, and Jean Claude Delville, creator of Caron’s densely packed amber blackcurrant sandalwood cassis freakshow of a mimosa from the same year, Montaigne – love it – delivers a very competent example of the form that will please perhaps the...
S. Poseidon, enroute from New York to Athens, met with disaster and was lost. A handful of podcasters follow the challenges faced by a handful of Oscar winners and other assorted stars from the 1970s to celebrate that 50th anniversary of this classic disaster flick. This is their story....
From nail-biting spy thrillers like Black Doves to the animated swan song Arcane, it's not easy to pick out the best series on the streamer; it is a vast catalog, after all. And with all the new Netflix shows that came out last year, such as the mega-hit Squid Game season 2, ...
Celery, prunes, dates, vanilla, spices: at the time this seemed an affront to decency (“Horrible………..vile”pronounced my mother) – a smell that belonged to a restaurant and not on a human. Years later, with the proliferation of anything goes in the niche industry, Arabie’s shock...
Starring:Albert Finney, Susannah York, Hugh Griffith, Edith Evans The movement towards social realism in British films of the 1960s wasn't merely confined to the present day; this Tony Richardson effort showed that it could be applied to period films too, and bawdy literary adaptations at that...
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