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Beethoven in the Age of Endarkenment
Ian Fantom Ludwig van Beethoven was baptised on 17 December, 1770, and so was probably born on the 16th....
Review: Turning Back: The Personal Journey of a Born-Again Jew
Steve Lipman A review of Turning Back: The Personal Journey of a Born-Again Jew, by Michael Lesher. Published by...
An Invitation to Seeking Truth in a Country of Lies
Edward Curtin In lieu of writing reviews of their own books – with the exception of Walt Whitman, who...
OffG Recommends….V for Vendetta
Kit Knightly
"OffG Recommends" is a new series we'll be putting out intermittently commenting on books, film, television or other arts...
The Machine Stops
The second half of short-story double is The Machine Stops, by EM Forster. While technically more science fiction than...
WATCH: The Jones Plantation
The first half of our halloween short-story double bill isn’t a horror story in the tradiional sense. But it...
Nothing Ever Happened
John Steppling Some books demand slower reading than others. Ed Curtin’s new book is such a case. But then...
REVIEW: The people need to take back control
Tony Sutton A review of The Sport & Prey of Capitalists: How the Rich Are Stealing Canada’s Public Wealth,...
REVIEW: Chasing the Light by Oliver Stone
Edward Curtin Like the wandering and rascally Odysseus upon whom he models his life, Oliver Stone is “double-minded” in...
Faceless Beings
Faceless beings with muffled voices stare at me through dark sunken sockets full of fear and fright. Muzzled and...
Donetsk film’s planned interference in the US Presidential Election
Rhys Jones The new spy thriller Alpha R, which is being shot in Donetsk for a release later this...
Interview Most Foul
Edward Curtin Imagine this: A so-called presidential historian for a major television network publishes an interview in the most...
REVIEW: Planet of the Humans
The pandemic is fetishized and much like the climate alarmism associated with Greta and The Guardian paper, there is...
Bob Dylan’s Midnight Message to JFK’s Ghost
Edward Curtin For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak with most miraculous organ.” Hamlet On May 1,...
REVIEW: The Man Who Skewers Presidential Numbskullery
Masterful essays take aim at the numbskullery of Trump, his hapless political opponents, and the boneheaded media warriors who...
Painting A True Christ: A Review of Terrence Malik’s “A Hidden Life”
Edward Curtin There’s an early scene in Terrence Malik’s masterful new film – what I would call a moving...
Neo-McCarthyite Witchhunters Hypocritically Mourn Kirk Douglas
Matthew Ehret Hollywood film legend Kirk Douglas’ passing on February 5th at the age of 103 has resulted in...
Why Mainstream Critics Turned Against Joker
Kit Knightly
The Oscars are happening as we speak, and I’m a little embarassed to say I want Joker to win....
REVIEW: Global Justice and Finance
Philip Roddis Paleontologists tell us homo sapiens sapiens has walked the earth for 140,000 years, 130,000 of them as...
Literature and Politics in a Dystopian Age
Frank Lee Unquestionably, the world seems to be moving away from democratic forms of rule and morphing into authoritarian/totalitarian...
