The 100-Year Anniversary of ‘Nosferatu’: The First Modern Horror Movie
Photo: ‘Nosferatu’ Injecting Scares into Silent Cinema You may struggle to think of a movie you’ve seen that came out prior to 1920; indeed, you might have almost as hard a time with any movie released prior to 1930. The silent era is mostly forgotten now,...
‘True Mothers’: A Sad, If Slow-Paced, Examination of Japanese Life
Photo: ‘True Mothers’ A Tragedy in the Making We have two mothers, except one has the other’s child. If ‘True Mothers’ was an American film, conceived with American values in mind, the conflict would probably play out a fair bit differently. Infertility...
Zelenskyy and Ukraine Winning Culture War By De-Russia-fication of the Ukrainian Nation
Photo: Ukraine and Zelenskyy With the war in Ukraine having entered into its second month, tensions and casualties continue to dramatically rise between these nations as well as the entire world. Putin has shown clearly that he will stop at nothing to annex Ukraine no...
Estonian Film ‘Firebird’ on Queer Love and Loss: A True Story of Military Trauma
Photo: ‘Firebird’ Overview Somewhere on a military base in Soviet-occupied Estonia, a young man captures a photograph of a beautiful woman conversing with a pilot, only his lens is not tracking the lipstick or pinned back curls. “To be or not to be, that is the...
