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The Return of Nuclear Cinema
Kathryn Bigelow’s latest film, “A House of Dynamite,” signals a revived concern with the risky realities of nuclear weapons — while the treaties meant to contain them are allowed to lapse and the memories of the devastation they can cause recede.
The Eternaut’s Journey
In its tribute to the 1950s comic “The Eternaut,” a new Netflix series offers a radical reinterpretation of Héctor Oesterheld’s Argentine classic.
One Hundred Years of Betrayal
The debate surrounding the Netflix adaptation of “One Hundred Years of Solitude” provides an opportunity to appreciate the novel’s artistry, Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s insights into the art of fiction, and the troubled path of his legacy over the decade since his death.
Netflix’s Perfect Strangers Has More Truth in It Than Its Critics Allow
It creates a kind of societal schizophrenia in which people are publicly outraged over artists’ failure to adhere to the moral imperatives of their faith and cultural values but Muslim countries lead the world in Google searches for porn.
Netflix’s ‘Grace and Frankie’ Reveals a Trend: Women Rejecting Marriage in Golden Years
The Netflix series “Grace and Frankie” portrays two women who suddenly find themselves divorced in their 70s. Instead of remarrying, they enjoy the single life, something more and more boomer women do as they acknowledge the high costs of marriage.
‘The Club’: Netflix’s Sephardic Heroine Braves Turkey’s Troubled Past
“The Club” also offers a biting social critique. For the show is less about the arrival of cocktail modernity to Istanbul than about the Turkification of cocktail modernity, i.e., a pincer movement by Kemalist state and society to substitute good secular Muslim Turks for Istanbul’s Greeks, Jews and Armenians.
An Unlikely Smash Hit, Netflix’s ‘Squid Game’ Exposes the Dark Side of Free Enterprise
The smash Netflix series “Squid Game” shows the material hardship of those trampled by the free market system, but more than that, it shows what that system does for compassion: If your goal is to win, you must become heartless.