The Cannes Film Festival is the latest cultural institution or event to disgracefully provide a public stage for Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky to promote the US-NATO war against Russia.
The central and overwhelming responsibility for the present state of unpreparedness lies with the government, media and corporate elite, who are engineering the “return to normal” for their own selfish economic and political reasons.
The exorbitant price for a trivial, empty work underscores the domination of the art world by a financial aristocracy that brushes aesthetic questions aside.
A painter from the working class, a First Nations victim in Canada, a family struggling with opioids, the ruling elite prepares for upheaval.
The miniseries dramatizes how a young female CEO started and grew a biotech company that delivered on none of its promises, defrauding patients and bilking investors of 100s of millions of dollars.
There is a tendency here to impose contemporary upper-middle class concerns onto characters—even historical figures—with harmful results.
Adapted from Kay’s bestselling diaries, the BBC’s gritty and realistic drama showing the unrelenting pressures on NHS staff has been well received by health workers and the public.
Abbott Elementary, set in a dilapidated Philadelphia school, is an unusually smart series. Aired on ABC and streamed on Hulu, the show has gained both critical accolades and a loyal following, including among teachers.
The latest entry in the comic book film franchise is grim, murky and pointless.
Once again, Burns’ undeniable talent for visual storytelling is not matched by depth of historical analysis.
The filmmakers, one regrets to point out, unreservedly accept the life-conditions and ideological assumptions of the local petty bourgeoisie as the entire contents of their artistic and psychological universe.
Through its seemingly neutral approach, the film remains merely at the level of observation.
The central and overwhelming responsibility for the present state of unpreparedness lies with the government, media and corporate elite, who are engineering the “return to normal” for their own selfish economic and political reasons.
Bowing to the poisonous campaign against everyone and everything Russian, the 2022 Dutch Harp Festival “postponed” the appearance of virtuoso harpist Alexander Boldachev.
The Russian violinist Dmitry Smirnov, who has declined to make any public declaration on the war, has emphasized he is on the side of all those who build bridges.
UMG is also a notable example of corporate malfeasance and negligence, related to the catastrophic 2008 Universal Studios backlot fire.
Tabak crafts a commendable and thorough charting of the reckless Foxconn debacle in Racine, Wisconsin but political conclusions must be drawn.
In this new collection, the stated theme of illusion is not always probed deeply—nor is it the only theme.
Joan Didion, the essayist and novelist who critically described nearly 60 years of American social and cultural life, died on December 23.
The second book by an acclaimed and politically engaged young poet is notable for its international and historical perspective.
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.
Last week director, producer, painter and sculptor Andrew Levitas spoke with the World Socialist Web Site about his dramatic feature Minamata, featuring Johnny Depp as world-famous photographer W. Eugene Smith.
