HBO’s The Last of Us: With humans like this, who needs zombies?
This zombie apocalypse drama marks something of a new high-water mark for savage violence and self-assured misanthropy in the entertainment industry.
This zombie apocalypse drama marks something of a new high-water mark for savage violence and self-assured misanthropy in the entertainment industry.
Loach’s conception of the working class is closely bound up with the nationalist straitjacket imposed for so many decades by the Labour and trade union bureaucracy.
Kerson’s mural, comprising two 8’×24’ panels titled Vermont, the Underground Railroad and Vermont and the Fugitive Slave, is significant from a historical, political and artistic perspective.
Why should the US ruling elite blink at the permanent damage done to artists and cultural life?
This zombie apocalypse drama marks something of a new high-water mark for savage violence and self-assured misanthropy in the entertainment industry.
The freelance editors responsible for creating the show’s pre-recorded segments have never been on strike.
Season two revisits many of the same concerns as the first season, tackling how money affects relationships of all types.
As with previous seasons of Curb, the eleventh contained some comic and satirical elements. However, the events of the past year, especially the war in Ukraine, need to be taken into account when evaluating the series and the social milieu.
Loach’s conception of the working class is closely bound up with the nationalist straitjacket imposed for so many decades by the Labour and trade union bureaucracy.
The film deserves at least a brief comment, as it purports both to be an account of the transition from cinema’s silent era to sound film and to expose “the real truth” about Hollywood.
Several older films featured at this year’s Berlinale film provided real insight into the plight of immigrants in the 1970s and 1980s.
A piece of autobiography and a tribute to the filmmaker’s theater director father, the work is intended, above all, as “an act of resistance” against the imperialist devastation of Iraqi culture and society.
The ruling exposes general manager Peter Gelb’s complicity in propaganda for the proxy war against Russia.
The campaign defends Waters’ criticism of Israel’s treatment of Palestinians as “part of his long-term advocacy on behalf of human rights across the globe.”
An artistic medium with its share of creativity and insight into daily life has all too often become a stew of ugliness, bombast, money-worship and backwardness.
While beating back management demands to cut the number of full time musicians, wages will remain mired at essentially poverty levels.
Puffin has announced it will publish another edition of Dahl’s books without changes, but not before the writers' advocacy group, PEN America, exposed itself as a phony opponent of censorship, given that it is a purveyor of Ukraine war propaganda and anti-Russian chauvinism.
Drawing on original historical records, Geraldine Brooks has written an absorbing account of how a small village tried to combat the bubonic plague in 17th century England.
The American writer Russell Banks, who wrote about the lives of working-class people and historical figures such as John Brown, died on January 3 at the age of 82.
With a couple of exceptions, the editor has chosen stories that in their form, language and examination of thematic ideas are highly accomplished, even if the collection as a whole bumps its head against certain objective limits.
Department of Defense interventions into American entertainment media is to “get people acclimated to the presence of military personnel, military bases, military operations, and weapons… normalizing the presence of the military in almost every aspect of life.”
The WSWS recently spoke to filmmaker Nadav Lapid, director of Ahed’s Knee, on a video call.
Wizemann’s You Mean Everything to Me follows a young woman, Cassandra (Morgan Saylor), who, faced with homelessness, comes under the spell of a local DJ, Nathan (Ben Rosenfield).
The notorious Counter Terrorism and Investigation Department arrested Jazeem in May 2020, claiming that his poetry promoted extremism and falsely accused him of teaching extremism to his students.