A "no" is a "yes" when it proves a citizenry cares enough to dirty itself by debating the future. France just showed it's in the game — and then some.
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Nurse Betty
See, that's what trauma gets you... your soap opera true love.
Strangers
Taichi Yamada is very much a "sixth sense" writer — but his ghosts emerge from the inside.
Waiting for the Barbarians
Among the finer postwar allegories, this is Coetzee's first anti-Apartheid blast — perhaps his best.
Outland
Familiarity breeds contempt. Now, Iraq is the land that time forgot.
Yo, Bacon
“Maybe ‘overshare’ is the active component in a new perfume intended to make its users believe they’re in 1940s noir movies.”
Iwo Jima
"When I did not get the meaning of the word caliber, he said, Think of a swallow expelled from eaves traveling at the speed of light."
Gattaca
Unsettling. Not simplistic. Entertaining. Here's good sci-fi.
To Live and Die in L.A.
The young William Petersen gives this thriller some smart clout.
The hand that takes
Never ignore a blinking message. “This is a voice from the past,” says a man whose hushed tones are, to [...]
Advocatus diaboli
Saints are the official celebrities of the Roman Catholic Church. Pope John Paul II sensed their significance and installed a [...]
Getting it Wrong
During the recent papal death and election, a reporter for a major American daily newspaper was asked to file a [...]