Oh Brother! Why Bother?
Oh Brother! Why Bother?
Shadow Play
The Secret Life of Walter White
Why Breaking Bad is unexpectedly good.
What Makes Gatsby Great?
A test of this insight is The Great Gatsby, the latest screen adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan and co-written and directed by the Australian filmmaker Baz Luhrmann.
The Hollywood Dialectic
Lincoln and Django Unchained represent what passes for artistic sensibility in today’s Hollywood.
Let a Hundred Blockbusters Bloom
China plans to blow up Hollywood’s monopoly.
Oprah’s World Mission
The high priestess of Change Your Life TV.
The Guided and the Misguided
What soap operas at home and abroad teach us.
The Ultimate Social Network
Cambridge, MA, March 15, 2014—Noh Hao, at 25 the social media’s youngest—and first female—multibillionaire, explains her meteoric success in an exclusive interview with Martha Bayles.
American Sex-ceptionalism
Each episode in the TV series begins with a question, some more portentous than others.
Animation and Aspiration
Avatar is the latest example of where art, politics, and theology meet.
Whatever It Takes
War and torture get the Hollywood treatment.
Out of Focus
Martin Scorsese's The Departed is a blurry copy of the Hong Kong original.