OPPENHEIMER is a grandiose, hyperverbal meditation on scientific and political power
by Ryan Silberstein, Managing Editor, Red Herring
We've grown up in the shadow of the ultimate destructive knowledge.
AIR dramatizes a fascinating story with light touch
by Ryan Silberstein, Managing Editor, Red Herring
Michael Jordan was inevitable, but what Air does is give an inside view of how improbable the Nike side of this deal actually was.
“Do you miss me, Miss misery?”: A look back at AS GOOD AS IT GETS and GOOD WILL HUNTING 25 years later
by Sam Morris, Staff Writer
My initial beliefs of what mental health and mental illness were have been formed in large part by popular culture. Two films, both released in December of 1997, were seminal in the construction of those beliefs: As Good As It Gets and Good Will Hunting.
Downsizing
Directed by Alexander Payne
by GD Hoffman
Downsizing is a big movie about smallness. It conveys large ideas and opinions regarding humanity in several polarizing areas like class, politics, ecology, technology, commercialism, totalitarianism, democracy, foreign relations, and so on. The story examines how a single change can affect the overlapping sociological fabric of global civilizations. What that change represents does not really matter aside from providing space for a few sight gags and one-liners.
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