Noah Berlatsky
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'Women Talking' takes a blunt look at patriarchal violence — and doesn't flinch
'Women Talking,' inspired by a true story of rape in a Mennonite community, examines patriarchal violence and the way women and men handle it. Can Hollywood? → Read More
Taratino bashes Marvel and modern movie era. What that's so offensive.
He sounds like an aging crank yelling at the kids to get off his grass. It also makes him sound like he's yelling at women to get off his screens. → Read More
Hulu's 'Handmaid's Tale' Season 5 is both incredibly timely and a missed opportunity
The series shows how reducing women to their pregnancies sttrips them of rights and power. But it also defines its female characters through motherhood. → Read More
Chicago singer-songwriter Claude makes dream pop for the youth, young and old
Claude's music evokes the yearning and molting of one's 20s while feeling like a retro excursion into 80s and 90s British indie rock → Read More
As the Covid centaurus variant hits Biden, America suffers
A new book from Steven Thrasher explains how disease exposes and compounds inequality — and why the only way to protect all of us is to protect the most vulnerable. → Read More
DC League of Super-Pets
The smaller humans who saw the preview were delighted, and their parents didn’t seem to be suffering. → Read More
Give "Nope" director Jordan Peele credit for his impact on Black horror
Black people have always been part of horror. They just have mostly not been the ones making money off of it. → Read More
Horror is a sound you can’t stop saying
Philip Glass’s soundtrack for piano, pipe organ, and chorus mirrors the repetition in the summoning spell. → Read More
A plane full of singing Christians, a viral critique — and a very revealing backlash
A viral Tweet and video of Christian Americans singing on a plane sparked a comment from Ilhan Omar about America's hypocrisy — and a revealing backlash. → Read More
Best Chicago representation in a groundbreaking music documentary
When the world, or the country, wants you dead and forgotten, making unforgettable living music is a kind of defiance. Every performer in Summer of Soul knows that. But no one puts it over with more force than Chicago’s Mahalia. → Read More
J.K. Rowling's 'Harry Potter' goblins echo Jewish caricatures
Jon Stewart's trending comments on 'Harry Potter' movie goblins and Jewish stereotypes don't implicate J.K. Rowling like her trans hate, but they're not great → Read More
No superman is an island
Encanto’s superpower is its dissection of community, which is something the Marvel Cinematic Universe should get behind. → Read More
Debt limit wrangling serves as bleak reminder of how Republicans have broken our political system
Failure to raise the debt ceiling would cause an economic disaster. So why do Republicans keep grandstanding? → Read More
HBO's new Kenny G doc reevaluates decades of anti-'Songbird' smugness
Disliking the wildly popular jazz artist isn’t just an aesthetic preference — it's a statement of identity. But is it fair? → Read More
'The Beatles: Get Back' Disney+ documentary isn't something we needed
'The Beatles: Get Back' Disney+ documentary series from Peter Jackson barely offers any new insight into a band that's already been obsessively documented for more than 50 years. → Read More
Marvel's 'Eternals' knows its superhero premise makes no sense
While the film flirts with self-awareness, it ends up dutifully fulfilling audience expectations. → Read More
'No Time to Die' is all about James Bond. That's the problem.
"No Time to Die" is all James Bond. But Daniel Craig's final 007 sequel — despite Rami Malek, Ana de Armas, Lashana Lynch and Léa Seydoux — is missing something. → Read More
Why America's Christian nationalists now defend the torture of Jews
The Daily Wire's Matt Walsh says activists for trans rights are far more 'repulsive' than the unfairly maligned Inquisition. It's a perfect example of how, for white Christian nationalists, antisemitism and transphobia fit so well together → Read More
Bnny make David Lynch-ian pop music for mourning
Bnny channel the dream-pop of Twin Peaks on their debut album Everything, and play a concert on Thursday 9/2 at the Empty Bottle. → Read More
Mexican Institute of Sound electrifies traditional Latin rhythms
The music of Mexican Institute of Sound melds traditional rhythms with contemporary electronic dance genres, and you can hear them at this weekend's Ruido Fest. → Read More