The overall tone of the film is one of insecurity. The entire thing is played as a joke and the seldom moments that try to ...

This movie acknowledges the current reality that nothing really changed for the better, and misinformation has only gotten ...

It was past midnight on July 26, 1970. The singing, the dancing, and the 21-piece orchestra had gone silent. James Brown’s show was over, and a cleanup crew was picking up after a crowd of thousands ...

The relationship the audience often has with media is what has become troubling.

Not much has changed since then as far as being wasteful goes. In fact, it’s gotten worse. Sure Americans recycle. We talk green and want to save the polar bears. But Americans still remain as ...

The big twist is revealed after the first half hour. Everything we’ve seen so far is a play within the movie. Digger was a real person, but Cruise is actually playing a man named Curtis for a ...

Traditional storytelling relies on a coherent linear plot that ends with a satisfying conclusion -- ideally leaving no questions for the audience. However, the ambiguous storytelling offered by an ...

**Editor's Note: Congratulations to Highbrow Magazine contributing writer Mark Orwoll, who won a 2026 Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Award (in the Culinary-Related Travel category) for this Highbrow ...

The other day I was chatting with a childhood friend on China’s version of WhatsApp or Telegram, known as WeChat. At one point I had to make a reference to the biblical flooding that befell Beijing ...

If there was any question whether Tom Holland had established himself as the preeminent cinematic Spider-Man, it’s gone. Spider-Man: Brand New Day is not only a thrilling entry to Holland’s reading of ...

In February of 1932, William Faulkner finished the manuscript for his seventh novel. He had spent the past three years writing the works that would make him immortal — The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay ...

Many nights, Spooks turn on their shortwave radios and drift through the frequencies. On any given night, one can hear amateur radio stations broadcasting church sermons, utility traffic for aircrafts ...