An alien crashes to Earth near a remote cabin, tosses its owner into the lake, replicates his DNA, takes on his identity as a vacationing physician, and...
Culture in Context
There’s probably no more “post-Christian” place on Earth than contemporary Scandinavia. According to the Pew Foundation, only 7 percent of Norwegians say they...
The popular British science fiction series Doctor Who has just celebrated a momentous landmark: 60 years of broadcasting. What started as a modest time-travel...
Two new films, The Black Demon and Meg 2: The Trench, are the latest in a six-decade-long string of films about big, bad sharks noshing on people. Why does...
In 1848, Karl Marx and Frederick Engels wrote that capitalism, with its “[c]onstant revolutionising of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social...
Barbie has become one of the top 20 highest grossing movies of all time, surpassing all the Harry Potter films, all but one of the Star Wars films, and joining...
It’s the heart of the home, a hearth is. An instantly understood symbol of welcome and warmth.By the fire is the coveted seat at a pub, the most romantic table...
Who’d have thought that Oppenheimer—a sprawling, three-hour-long, demanding, and often disturbing movie about the physicist behind the first atom bomb—could...
We are made for relationship. We are born into relationships. We seek relationships and struggle with relationships. We are disappointed by relationships...
This Armageddon is not the mythic final battle between one army that is consummately good and another that is demonically evil. Armageddon Time is a nuanced...
