On watching To Be Takei one gets the impression that George Takei embodies much of what made Star Trek great. At its best, the franchise used sci-fi conventions to explore philosophical questions. It was driven by the optimistic view that humanity’s future lies in a more tolerant society, one in which people tend to work for the betterment of themselves and humanity … Continue reading
The Newsroom — Off the Record, directed by Mikala Krogh, provides a fly on the wall account of the seemingly irreversible decline of one of Denmark’s largest and most controversial newspapers: Ekstra Bladet. A classic tabloid, Ekstra Bladet specialises in muckraking journalism, political scandals, sex, crime and sport. At home in the same building as the Danish … Continue reading
The Look of Silence is Joshua Oppenheimer’s second film about the massacres of communists that killed at least half a million people in Indonesia between 1965 and 1966. Like its predecessor, 2012’s The Act of Killing, The Look of Silence is both very specifically about these killings and a broader exploration of human psychology and of … Continue reading
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