- September 10, 2024
Why My Brilliant Friend is one of the best shows on TV
HBO As the final season of the HBO adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels begins this week, why has the show not received the plaudits
Pamela Anderson is ‘a revelation’ in poignant Las Vegas-set drama
TIFF Gia Coppola’s latest is an atmospheric and sympathetic drama about the showgirls on the Vegas strip, featuring “sharply drawn characters” and outstanding performances from
‘A dreary, underwhelming, unnecessary slog’
Niko Tavernise Joaquin Phoenix returns as the infamous supervillain with Lady Gaga as his sidekick in a musical sequel that is “disappointing” and “not much
Jude Law and Nicholas Hoult star in a ‘superbly acted’ cop drama about US neo-Nazis
AGC Studios Jude Law plays an FBI agent on the trail of Nicholas Hoult’s criminal in another “intense” film about murderers from Macbeth and Nitram
Pablo Larraín’s biopic of Maria Callas, starring Angelina Jolie, is ‘too adoring and reverential’
Netflix Pablo Larraín’s fact-based drama, starring Angelina Jolie as opera diva Maria Callas, is witty and beautiful, but “this Callas is an icon rather than
Updating common knowledge | Eurozine
Have you ever wondered how the results of scientific research get written up, published, disseminated and, in some cases, eventually accepted as conventional wisdom? How
Just ourselves | Eurozine
In his 1993 book Pleasant the Scholar’s Life: Irish Intellectuals and the Construction of the Nation State, Maurice Goldring emphasised the role of intellectuals in
Taming the ship of fools
Greta Thunberg accused participants of the 2023 World Economic Forum with ‘fuelling the destruction of the planet’. She argued that the irresponsibility of the economic
‘It’s important to be open’
In the second episode of Knowledgeable Youth, the students discuss a theme close to their current experience, shared by many others’ in Vienna: migrating. The
Press freedom amid martial law
At first, everyone contrasted the outspoken freedom of Ukraine’s media with Russia’s blank censorship. Two years on, the gap doesn’t look that tremendous. It has
