Tis the season to be jolly...or so we thought: "If Lars von Trier set out to make an accurate film about depression he has done a fantastic job.", writes culture critic Melynda Nuss about von Trier's new film "Melancholia".
David Cronenburg’s new film explores how sex, anti-semitism and the professional rivalry of Sigmund Freud and his acolyte, Carl Jung, held sway at the dawn pyschoanalysis.
While admitting to be a fan of Hergé and no unquestioning praiser of Spielberg, British journalist Andrew Jack considers the new Tintin movie has been unfairly maligned by critics in the UK.
Documentaries by a French journalist explore Vatican racism against blacks, the sexual abuse of African nuns by priests and the deportation of French, Spanish and German citizens of African or Afro-European descent to Nazi concentration camps during World War II.
Has anyone noticed that both this film and its main competitor for Hollywood’s highest distinction — The Social Network — essentially tell the same story?
Melynda Nuss reviews the remake of the classic 1957 Western about a desperate, small-time rancher who takes an assignment to transport a notorious outlaw to Yuma for imprisonment.
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