AlamyClint Eastwood was catapulted to film stardom when he played a brooding gunslinger in Sergio Leone's first Spaghetti Western, A Fistful of Dollars. In a 1977 interview with the BBC, the Italian director confessed that he "really wanted" another actor...
Prime VideoA new documentary series premiering at TIFF explores the legacy of the group adored by millions of Canadians – but largely unknown to the rest of the world.Canada isn't immune to creating musical megastars, from Leonard Cohen and Shania...
Yannis Drakoulidis(Credit: Yannis Drakoulidis)Luca Guadagnino's latest film sees the James Bond star on exceptional form as a dissolute writer into casual sex and strong liquor. He's easily the best thing about it.When Luca Guadagnino's Call Me By Your Name came...
AGC StudiosJude Law plays an FBI agent on the trail of Nicholas Hoult's criminal in another "intense" film about murderers from Macbeth and Nitram director, Justin Kurzel.You know where you are with Justin Kurzel. Aside from one Shakespeare adaptation (Macbeth)...
Warner BrosArriving 36 years on, this follow-up to the director's classic supernatural comedy is a gleefully zany farce packed with knock-out punchlines and great practical effects.Betelgeuse is back from the dead. Or rather, Betelgeuse is still dead, but he's back,...
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 shaping Irish cultural nationalism. He distinguished between revolts and revolutions. Without some articulation of ideas...
John Maynard Keynes and Friedrich von Hayek published their landmark works over 75 years ago, so why do their ideas still generate such debate today? Kritika & Kontext devotes a special issue to a re-evaluation of these two 20th-century behemoths...
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 elite, who ‘are prioritizing self-greed, corporate greed and short-term economic profits’, discredits their alleged competence....
As the object of study rather than the subject of communication, the so-called Middle East has long been a locus for advanced technologies of mapping. In the field of aerial vision, these technologies historically employed cartographic and photographic methods. The...
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 even shifted since I began researching Ukrainian media legislation at the University of Glasgow in...
