‘Midnight’ is a Triumph of Suspense, Terror, and Frustration

Back in 2010, you might have seen a movie called The Imperialists Are Still Alive! It starred Élodie Bouchez as an artist navigating the post-9/11 world of New York and was directed by Zeina Durra, a British born woman of Middle Eastern descent (her mother is Bosnian-Palestinian and her father is Lebanese-Jordanian). Reviews at the…

The con artist archetype is heightened to a new level of depravity in the Canadian produced drama White Lie. Wide-eyed college student, Katie, is a promising young dancer at her college. She has an amazing girlfriend named Jennifer, the lead in a dance showcase, a chance at a scholarship, and a slew of social media…

Fans of the group Swans will know exactly what I’m driving at because if you ask someone, “do you like Swans?” and the reply is never the simple reaction you get when you talk about other bands. A Swans fan will never say, “well, the early stuff is cool..” or ” yeah they had some…

Woke culture comes with unwritten, undeniable rules. Conservatives aren’t offered protection against cruel attacks that would get some canceled Liberals enjoy limited protection should they run afoul of the woke bylaws You can never, ever be woke enough The latter came true last year when the wokest comedy of the modern era hit theaters. “Booksmart,”…

In September 1978, the Bulgarian writer Georgi Markov was killed in London under highly suspicious circumstances. The playwright had defected from his Soviet-allied home country in 1969 and spent the ensuing years appearing on American and West German radio programs, so his demise was always going to raise eyebrows. It was the cause of death,…

It’s never too late to reinvent yourself in The Forty-Year-Old Version, the feature debut of writer, director, and actor Radha Blank. Drawing from her own life, Radha envisions a woman not dissimilar to herself: a promising playwright who, after being put on a prestigious 30 Under 30 list, saw her career fizzle. Now teaching and approaching 40, she’s…