You couldn’t accuse Jeffrey Manchester of being inconsiderate or impolite. Sure, the former member of the U.S. Army’s 82nd airborne division had fallen on hard times in terms of steady employment, and when you need to provide for your family, you do what you have to do. In Manchester’s case, …
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America is in a rough place right now — perhaps you’ve heard. Right vs. left, blue vs. red, blind faith vs. biased truth. What was once an ideological divide now seems like an unbridgeable chasm. No one can seem to agree on simple concepts like, say, “facts” or “reality.” Historians …
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The portrayal of war and societal collapse in film is beginning to feel increasingly less dystopian in its mirroring of the real world. In the trailer for A24‘s upcoming film Civil War, Kirsten Dunst is a photographer on the front lines of an epic battle in which civilians and journalists …
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I n Sofia Coppola’s eighth feature, Priscilla, she shoots tail-finned Cadillacs as lovingly as she does her latest extraordinary lead actress (Cailee Spaeny as Priscilla Presley), capturing the beauty and hidden darkness inside Graceland — and in America writ large. Along the way, Coppola tells her most haunting coming-of-age tale …
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