Counter Arts

While The Matrix is known to be one of the most influential sci-fi films of all time, its philosophical depth goes far beyond the genre’s…

The fall from power. Screams, blood, and death in the big city.

My journey into the magic realm of impressionistic painting

Catherine Breillat’s controversial 2001 film is a provocative, corrosive experience

Our acquiescence in the corporate theft of our savings is puzzling

Yep, this was all planned. Now, here’s what we need to do about it.

Different fiefdoms, same old exploitation

The angry giant sells cornflakes & Klonopin

Taming the wild in John M. Chu’s ‘Wicked’ (2024)

After years of black & white, we’re living in the gray

El poder de lo cotidiano is a collection of stories in which the fine observation of human simplicity gives rise to profound reflections on…

How a 3000 year-old Mycenean Hero inspired an “old-time-classic” trope

Who decides what is true? And do you dare to challenge it?

While the Netflix show isn’t strictly a ‘true story’, it draws from a multitude of similar crimes

On making peace with the beast

Dispatches from the before-times in the US

An experimental film that plays with the viewer’s patience, especially in an ending that may disappoint many but is honest to the very…

Poetry From the Ground to the Sky

Love, death, and bad neighbors in Julia Armfield’s profoundly upsetting undersea gothic romance

‘Oedipus Rex’, ‘King Lear’, and ‘Death of a Salesman’: lies, myths and Aristotelian inversions

But it doesn’t have to be

The birth of a new theme in post-COVID television

Turning into the cynical Asian-American writer

The 2001 drama is powerful, stylish and very well told