"Through Andrew we get a picture of the slow, stupid ignorance at the top levels of our society, with individuals everywhere trapped by their weaknesses and secret failures; a post-9/11 trauma-centric America full of aimless, unhappy nihilism, ceaseless questioning, and a torrent of psychological neuroses.".
Although Benedict Cumberbatch gives a superb performance as a paranoid, power-hungry Julian Assange in The Fifth Estate, the movie ultimately bears an "eerie resemblance to propaganda."
It’s always fun to see a person who hates the world pontificate on the failings of humankind with a vituperative tongue. The Court Theatre’s production of Molière’s The Misanthrope gives us just such a character, all while providing a gorgeously produced, bitingly accurate commentary on the foolishness of societal conventions that’s just as applicable in...
It had been three quarters of an hour since I’d spoken. I sat at the kitchen table bitterly watching my best friend and her boyfriend turn the process of making tea and tapioca into an opportunity for apologetic comments of “I’m sorry I don’t have milk, this is going to taste bad, I’m sorry,” and...
I’d never been to an apartment concert before. Walking into the homey, yellow-lit rooms where Talrton, Zoo Animal, and Project Film would be playing a house concert on Friday January 27th, I felt like an outsider. But once Tarlton began to play their set, the rooms, the lights, the people, everything, felt just right. Composed of just...
Like the viewer’s winding passage through the exhibit, Holt’s work is full of growth, both natural and created.
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