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Warning: Full spoilers follow for Gladiator II! 2024’s film lineup has been heavily loaded with big-budget sequels, some of them much more satisfying than others. For every Dune: Part Two or Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, there’s also a Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire or Joker: Folie à Deux. Gladiator II falls somewhere in the middle. It’s hardly the worst […]
“Gladiator II” features a naval battle that occurs at the Colosseum for the crowd’s amusement. The scene is rooted in real-life naval battles that began during Julius Caesar’s reign in Rome. But it’s unlikely that the staged fights included sharks in the water. Ridley Scott‘s “Gladiator II” takes a few creative liberties and diverges from […]
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Now, “Bonhoeffer” is the latest of their films to receive backlash. The Bonhoeffer family came out and denounced it as a “history-distorting biopic, which turns Bonhoeffer into an evangelical saint.” The Christianity Today review by Myles Wertz calls their version of Bonhoeffer “an empty container into which our own desires — in this case, desires […]
Ayn Rand is a talented writer and the most fair criticisms of her work boil down to being derivative of Nietzche and verbose. Although she's famous as a writer my favorite thing from her isn't novel but an interview where she talks about her husband. Rand was married to a struggling painter and the primary […]
Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC Mike Tyson lost decisively to Jake Paul on Friday night, but UFC president Dana White thought Iron Mike proved something in the ring nonetheless. During the press conference after UFC 309, White told reporters that “I was wrong” in thinking Paul would soundly beat and perhaps knock out the former heavyweight champion. […]
enrico marone cinzano: obsessed by nature Italian artist Enrico Marone Cinzano opens at Friedman Benda in New York with his solo show Obsessed By Nature. As the title suggests, the diverse works on view are informed by the artist’s obsession with the beauty and logic of the natural world. Marone Cinzano describes his practice […]
In difficult times, young adults need shows about them more than ever. Adolescence and early adulthood are challenging no matter what’s going on in a young person’s life, and doubly so when they’re growing up in a high-stress, polarized environment. TV gets a lot of things right about young people, though it still misses the […]
What happens when you spend three decades talking to retirement experts? You learn that most of what people think they know about retirement planning is oversimplified or wrong. Christine Benz, director of personal finance and retirement planning at Morningstar, joins us on the Afford Anything podcast to share what she’s discovered after 31 years of […]
The fact that only Paralympians are elevated to positions of power demonstrates that not all people with disabilities are equal, writes Melissa Marsden. The theme for the International Day of People with Disability 2024 (IDPwD) is ‘Amplifying the leadership of persons with disabilities for an inclusive and sustainable future’. Held annually on 3 December, this year, it […]