I’ve talked quite a bit about patriot-heroes before. Between seeing how they stack up against Captain America and diving deep into some of the odder heroes to defend American values during World War II, I thought I’d gained a certain measure of immunity against how bonkers these characters could be. Well, you can guess the
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Baltimore has long been mythologised onscreen through stories of crime, corruption and fractured communities. From documentaries like Sonja Sohn’s The Slow Hustle (2021) to films such as Charm City Kings (Ángel Manuel Soto, 2020) and, most famously, HBO’s The Wire, by David Simon (2002-08), the city is often portrayed through the lens of violence, addiction,
Just when you thought B’Day couldn’t get any louder, a couple hundred people file onto the dance floor at the Brooklyn venue Baby’s All Right for a 20th anniversary celebration of Beyoncé‘s seminal second album. The space is tiny and tightly packed. When the dance break in “Get Me Bodied” hits, there’s barely any space
When a film receives colossal praise from all quarters, it comes wrapped in a certain aura, the sort of cumbersome reputation that certain releases at times fail to live up to.Praised at prestigious film festivals, posters triumphantly declareKokuho (2025), Japan’s highest-grossing live-action film. That’s a mean feat for a rather prodigious national industry (interestingly, the


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