Arts and Entertainment

Billionaires Suck

Billionaires Suck Billionaires Suck

Public action, visibility brigade, Route 4, Paramus, New Jersey, January 2025.

Apr 4, 2025 / OppArt / Karen Guancione

Larissa FastHorse’s Comedy “Fake It Until You Make It” Highlights the Absurdities of Ambition and Authenticity

Larissa FastHorse’s Comedy “Fake It Until You Make It” Highlights the Absurdities of Ambition and Authenticity Larissa FastHorse’s Comedy “Fake It Until You Make It” Highlights the Absurdities of Ambition and Authenticity

It’s a whirlwind of competition, chaos, and comedic discovery.

Apr 4, 2025 / Michele Willens

Ai Generator

Ai Generator Ai Generator

Drawing conclusions.

Apr 3, 2025 / OppArt / John Cuneo

The Excesses of “Mickey 17”

The Excesses of “Mickey 17” The Excesses of “Mickey 17”

Bong Joon-ho’s sci-fi blockbuster is both the director’s simplest and most unwieldy feature yet.

Apr 3, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Phoebe Chen

Danger!

Danger! Danger!

Activism for life.

Apr 2, 2025 / OppArt / Alessandra Mondolfi

The Hopes and Struggles of Thousands of Migrants

The Hopes and Struggles of Thousands of Migrants The Hopes and Struggles of Thousands of Migrants

Walled off from the American dream.

Mar 31, 2025 / OppArt / Hormigas Bordadoras

The Life and Death of Conspiracy Cinema

The Life and Death of Conspiracy Cinema The Life and Death of Conspiracy Cinema

Why did Hollywood lose interest in making paranoid thrillers like The Parallax View and Three Days of the Condor? Was it a change in the culture? Or a change in the marketplace?

Mar 31, 2025 / Books & the Arts / T. M. Brown

Women’s Rights, Worker’s Rights!

Women’s Rights, Worker’s Rights! Women’s Rights, Worker’s Rights!

The international fight for human rights.

Mar 28, 2025 / OppArt / URTARTE

Palestinian filmmaker and Oscar winner for the documentary “No Other Land” Hamdan Ballal poses for a picture with his Oscar, as he recovers after Israeli settlers attacked him at home, in his village of Susya in the south of the occupied West Bank on March 26, 2025.

Must a Palestinian Win an Oscar for the World to Care When He’s Attacked? Must a Palestinian Win an Oscar for the World to Care When He’s Attacked?

The assault and arrest of Ballal Hamdan is horrendous, but the framing of the incident reproduces the idea that some lives are more worthy of defense than others.

Mar 27, 2025 / Sleman Altehe

A Yemeni walks over the debris of a destroyed building after it was struck by US air strikes in Sanaa, Yemen, Monday, March 24, 2025.

Bombing Yemen: Signalgate Deserves to Be a Major Scandal Bombing Yemen: Signalgate Deserves to Be a Major Scandal

But the assault on Yemeni civilians the hapless conspirators discussed in their private chat group is an even bigger disgrace—though so far the press haven’t paid much attention.

Mar 27, 2025 / Phyllis Bennis

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