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...power and authority through murder and intimidation. Although this movie is about Italian crime syndicates, this is no modern rendition with glorifying elements like “The Godfather” or even “Goodfellas.” Visually speaking, the movie is bleak and almost completely devoid of entertainment for entertainment’s sake. Many of the movie’s scenes take place in the bombed-out public housing high rises within the city’s notorious suburbs, where drug dealers openly conduct business and warfare even when the cameras have stopped rolling. While...
...referential nature of science fiction means that style and an extensive awareness of the genre’s history—rather than substance—separate a good sci-fi film from a merely average one. That’s not to say that sci-fi movies are devoid of meaning or broader concerns. The widely mocked B movies of the 1950s were certainly characterized by tackiness, but they also explored clever political allegory at the height of the Cold War. In luring people back to Somerville year after year, the lineup of films is secondary to the festival?...
...become a landscape “where Russia’s expansionism and Europe’s spirit went to war,” and one that has anticlimatically subsided into an achromatic wasteland. To Vargalas, Vilnius is the worst kind of hell—an inferno devoid of flames and full instead of gray—made in the likeness of its own architects, “Them.” “They” are the silent, gray majority of shapeless shadow beings that are inexorably draining Lithuanian life and stuffing it with emptiness...
...completely disconnected from social activism, or the world around me - I was almost devoid of a social consciousness before then. But I was struck by the injustice." - Explaining how Diallo's killing spurred his spiritual journey. (Boston Globe, July...
While the sculpture’s brazen impudence is certainly comic and refreshingly devoid of political correctness, its presence at the center of a major political institution is simply inappropriate. To display an offensive piece like “Entropa” is to dangerously accentuate the political divisions it mocks...