I wrote about Adolescence – or rather the (manufactured) hype surrounding it – last week. I thought at the time I’d said all that needed to be said. It...

As transpired in Weimar Germany, cataclysmic times invariably induce great suffering, yet they can also serve as inspiration for poignant and moving works of art. What follows is a...

In honor of the Holiday Season I’ve delved into my personal archives for more movie reviews, and turned up this re-examining of David Lean’s Brief Encounter. Moving forward I...

Directed by Marijn Poels. The embedded video is the YouTube version, the film is also available on Rumble. Both versions have full subtitles in English, German and Dutch. This...

I grew up in the ‘60s and ‘70s rather afraid of robots. I mean, they weren’t all bad—the housekeeper on The Jetsons, for example, or even the robot on...

“The old lie: Dulce et decorum est /Pro patria mori (It is a sweet and fitting thing to die for one’s country”) Wilfred Owen Yes, it seems fitting that...

Nothing is sacred anymore. Attacks on tradition and the old ways come from every angle, and some of the most insidious assaults target art and culture. The Rings of...

As surprising as it sounds, the Disney+ show ANDOR – a Star Wars spin-off – was going to be my subject for the next “OffG Recommends”…but then I saw...

I used to be shocked and amazed when weird things happened in the world that seemed to be connected to each other, but were too weird to be just...

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Today is St George’s Day, and it’s also Shakespeare’s Birthday …except, not really. The truth is it’s a guess. William Shaksper, “the man from Stratford”, is known to have...

Here’s a film about the 1950s – “The World As It Was” – that will tell you a great deal about life in the U.S.A. today, while disabusing anyone...

Edward Curtin “Standing there I wondered how much of what we had felt on the bridge was just hunger. I asked my wife and she said, ‘I don’t know,...

Edward Curtin It is hard for those who have not lived through the shattering political assassinations of the 1960s to grasp their significance for today.  Many might assume that...

Joanna Sharp How do free spirits endure a tyrannical technocratic order? Do they succumb to endless rules, or do they keep doing their own thing? And what is the...

John Whitehead “There is something terribly wrong with this country, isn’t there? Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, to think...

Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the...

Yesterday evening the US union the Writers’ Guild of America went on strike. The most immediate impact of this is that all the late-night “comedy” talk shows – Colbert,...

Usually the OffG recommends articles* take the form of a review, but Network doesn’t need another review, and nor does it require our endorsement. Firmly ensconced as it is...

John & Nisha Whitehead If all that Americans want is security, they can go to prison. They’ll have enough to eat, a bed and a roof over their heads....