Counter Arts

Director Sam Gold makes the inaccessible reachable to all kinds of audiences.

Is “Bird Horror” becoming a new, intriguingly strange trend in contemporary horror?

What does the story of ‘Oedipus the King’ tell us?

One of HBO’s most acclaimed series returns to its essence in a season in which the acting brilliance is sublimated to a plot that returns…

The book is NOT the musical

There’s an insinuation that trans people are less desirable than cis people

Nearly 80 years on — using film to see into the past

Looks like my Brickpanda Instagram experience wasn’t in vain. Now my work is in a huge shopping mall for every brick fan to see!

The inhibition of living with your parents as a young adult

Let’s break down how the big screen amplifies and even improves the musical’s political messaging

Book Club Review: ‘Ariadne’ by Jennifer Saint is not what you’d think it is

Kaliane Bradley’s Novel, ‘The Ministry of Time’

Eric Rohmer’s Tales of the Four Seasons come to a close… kind of

One for the angels and demons, and real-life morality.

While commonly confused, ‘asocial’ reflects solitary tendencies, whereas ‘antisocial’ manifests as deliberate opposition to societal norms.

(Spoiler Alert!!) How the coming-of-age story of a Norwegian woman resonates with me

Feeling burned out? Make time for self-care with this simple activity

Moving through empty landscapes, naming complex trauma

“I was raped and left to die on the side of the road”

How Han Kang’s masterpiece challenges Patriarchy through a woman’s quiet defiance

It’s a certified Broadway smash that’s stepped up to the big screen, but not everyone’s on board. If you bump into a hater, here’s a cheat…

Norman Jewison’s ’60s pop culture classic certainly looks the part, but it lacks narrative power

Gladiator II is a lazy, cash-grabbing disaster that swaps epic spectacle for cheap CGI and washed-out TV visuals. Ridley Scott must have…

Koans and true enlightenment