Recent Articles
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‘Star-Crossed’s’ Titus Makin Jr. Charms with Multiple Talents On and Off Screen
Just a few episodes into the CW’s new adolescent sci-fi romance-drama, Star-Crossed, Titus Makin Jr.’s character, Lukas, has impressively eradicated several of his friends’ problems in some way, shape or form.... -
Life as a Canvas: For Alexa Meade, Everything Is Art
Art is everywhere. Isn’t that the most tired cliché known to man? It’s almost as staid as “everything is art.” But for Alexa Meade, everything really is art. -
Tribeca Reviews — Filling In the Blanks: ‘The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq’
It’s fitting that Guillaume Nicloux’s L’enlèvement de Michel Houellebecq (The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq) opens with two men sitting around a kitchen table in a Parisian apartment, smoking and wryly... -
Lars von Trier’s ‘Nymphomaniac Volume II’ — A Search to Nowhere
If you’re reading the second part of this review, then you’ve probably decided to return to Lars von Trier’s circus of cinematic abuse. I’ll leave it to the individual reader to determine whether this latest... -
Sufe Bradshaw Talks Life on HBO’s ‘Veep’ Set
In an age of TV obsessed with fictionalizing the world of D.C. politics, there’s nothing quite like Veep. HBO’s Emmy-winning political satire, created by Armando Iannucci, focuses on the hilarious political ups...
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Lars von Trier’s ‘Nymphomaniac: Volume I’ — Art or Abuse?
Sometimes you have to give credit where credit is due — if you’re the type of moviegoer whose eyes light up at peepshows advertising the two-headed woman, then the trumped-up title of Lars von Trier’s latest... -
Filmmaker Christine Turner Talks ‘Homegoings’ and Understanding Tradition in Podcast
Snow falling on barren trees amplifies the scent of death in the air in the opening scenes of documentary film Homegoings as a casket is tucked away into a black hearse. It took filmmaker Christine Turner three years... -
Benjamin Mack and the Box That Thunders
Deep in the heart of the southern African nation of Zimbabwe, there is a legend: a box-like object that the minority Lemba people claim can summon lightning, level mountains, and is instantly fatal to all those who...
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Disney Imagineer Bran Ferren Discusses Art and Engineering
At the tender age of just nine, Bran Ferren went with his parents to see the famed Pantheon in Rome. In that single experience, he began to understand how art, design and beauty can magnify the power of science and... -
Send Us Your Questions for Author Lauren Oliver
Lauren Oliver, author of the Delirium series and her recently published novel Panic, is taking part in our new series titled "You Asked," in which YOU ask the questions.