My feed is populated by irrelevant posts; unrequested, unrequired, mostly needing a requiem. Plucking interesting, possibly relevant ones, is a dicey game of hit and miss. So when a woman talks about the complexities of her marriage publicly, it moves …
It’s important, nay a prerequisite, to be briefed about current state of affairs . This novel written in 1984 by Italian author Andrea de Carlo is prophetic in its prescience about dictatorships, with a twist. Satire has always been a …
We perhaps should tread wearily engaged in our easy lives, unconcerned by the hard life that people of earlier years had to endure. Robert’s wife dies of encephalitis; his daughter of the Mexican flue outbreak that all but wiped out …
Didactic utopias are easy to mock and criticise, which is probably why dystopia has become a more popular genre. I have trouble thinking more than twenty years ahead without the ugly sceptre of pessimism cantering my brain and its …
An unexploded World War II-era bomb is unearthed early on in the twisty, propulsive FUZE. What gradually becomes apparent is that the men in its radius possess the same hair-trigger volatility. At its core the director David Mackenzie derives …