Double Lover is based on a deliciously plump mystery novella by Joyce Carol Oates called Lives of the Twins. In 1991 a US film was also inspired by the story, it starred Isabella Rossellini, Aidan Quinn, and Iman. Thankfully, Francois Ozon’s adaptati …Read more

Last week, photos of Saffiyah Khan, half Pakistani/half Bosnian UK citizen, went viral when she came to assist a hijab-wearing Muslim woman getting harassed by a group of EDL lads. The English Defense League—an extreme right wing, anti-Islamic group— …Read more

If The Little Prince married Princess Mononoke, their movie life would be something like The Red Turtle. Not with words or content, but how it might feel. Like French-pressed coffee and Japanese tea alone on a beach, without a morsel of food, not eve …Read more

The marble pillars of American higher education are eroding. Unless one is directly affected by the changes involved, the breakdown isn’t getting noticed. Starving the Beast is the first and only film thus far addressing this crisis. Among the major …Read more

Inside the Chinese Closet The premise is intriguing enough— in Shanghai, young gay men and lesbians are willing to go through therapy, fake marriages, adoption clinics and thousands of dollars to honor and appease their mortified, hetero-loving paren …Read more

If you’re a dreamer, you’ll understand this: as odds increase, bigger miracles are required. Bigger faith, harder perseverance. Stuck in a Walmart-like job, woman with a dream Janet Vokes was the fuel behind the Welsh pub-based network that broke int …Read more

The documentary Everybody Knows…Elizabeth Murray is a rightly-due tribute where none existed before, bringing those unfamiliar with this iconoclast artist further generations of admirers. Though raised and attending art school in Chicago, Elizabeth M …Read more

In Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis, no one spends a lot of energy wondering how or why Gregor Samsa became a giant cockroach. Everyone — reader included — quickly accepts this matter-of-fact situation and works with the ensuing consequences. The beauty o …Read more

Marvelously clever from the onset, director Kadri Kõusaar’s Mother soundtrack immediately clues us in with the dissonant tones perched against the harmonies. Something’s fishy in this unassuming, pretty house situated in this quaint little Estonian t …Read more

When Humans of New York photographer Brandon Stanton visited Jordan last year, it was probably the first time many Americans learned about the Syrian refugee crisis. His reporting led actor Ed Norton to fundraise over $460,000 to aid the Syrian refug …Read more