In-flight entertainment

I recently took a one-week trip to Beijing to attend my brother’s wedding. The city itself is fascinating, built on a monumental scale (or as dissident artist Ai Weiwei puts it, “inhuman”), and Beijing traffic is one of the most terrifying things I’ve ever encountered. I didn’t have a lot of time to explore, but […]

Blasts from the past

Two Godzilla novellas by Shigeru Kayama

Criterion Blu-ray review: Polanski’s Macbeth (1971)

Sergei Bondarchuk’s War and Peace (1966-67):
Criterion Blu-ray review

Leonard Cohen, Robert Altman and an elegy to a national myth

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