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How the aristocrat’s blueprint for populist conservatism became today’s reality. The Ghost in the Machine: How William F.
Slow death of Britain even worse than George Orwell's 1984 imagined The OBR's bleak futurism prompted writer Paul Baldwin to make a few predictions of his own, with Orwell's 1984 re-imagined as ...
In 'Boy George & Culture Club,' Alison Ellwood charts the band’s rise to global pop domination and the frictions that pierced their bubble of success.
The best documentary at this year’s festival is not the one about Julian Assange, but that hasn’t stopped it from pulling all the attention.
George Wendt, an actor with an everyman charm who played the affable, beer-loving barfly Norm on the hit 1980s TV comedy “Cheers,” has died.
Home Film Documentary Filmmaker Raoul Peck: Trump, Putin, Modi Are Implementing Authoritarian Playbook Of George Orwell’s ‘1984’ – Cannes Studio By Matthew Carey ...
George Wendt, the celebrated comic actor best known for portraying Norm Peterson on the hit sitcom 'Cheers,' has died at the age of 76.
It was a big day at the Cannes Film Festival, with Lynne Ramsay returning (with Jennifer Lawrence) and Richard Linklater going French.
For about half an hour or so, Raoul Peck’s documentary “Orwell: 2+2=5” is amazingly restrained in the way it deals with author George Orwell, his seminal dystopian novel “1984” and its ...
When I was growing up, the lessons of 1984 – the dystopian novel by George Orwell – were all thought to pertain to the Soviet Union. Big Brother was Josef Stalin – controlling the thoughts ...
Andy Serkis is directing the long-developing George Orwell adaptation, which will also boast the voices of Laverne Cox, Kieran Culkin and Steve Buscemi.
Most of us can remember at least a few troubling scenes from George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984: the mandatory love demanded for the spectral dictator Big Brother; the malleability of facts at ...