This year’s DOC NYC, the biggest documentary film festival in the U.S., didn’t have as many blockbuster docs as last year (“The Beauty and the Bloodshed,” for example) or as many films about the arts (my own favorite doc sub-genre) but, as usual, the slate was huge (over 100 films) and full of insightful and piercing examinations of social and cultural issues in this...
A friend of mine used to always observe that if he ever visited Hawaii he'd probably never leave. After watching Christopher Kahunahana's indie feature "Waikiki" he might reconsider. Instead of the natural splendor one associates with this neighborhood of Honolulu, "Waikiki" depicts a space filled with the constant and irritating noise of high rise construction, a beach threatened by erosion and a neighborhood favored...
Two brilliant recent graphic novels about monsters.
Published earlier this year, Barry Windsor-Smith has been working on this graphic novel for 35 years and met...
The popularity of the Korean Netflix series "The Squid Game" and the distinctive uniforms worn by its characters have propelled sales for Squid Game...
Barry Forshaw is a British writer who specialises in crime fiction. He has written many books, including “British Crime Writing: An Encyclopedia”, “The Rough...
Start your introduction to detective fiction by reading three classics of the genre and then comparing them to their best film adaptations, two of which are among the best of Film Noir.
