Widower's Tango

There is a TV commercial being aired here in the Philippines that is quite transparently and brazenly racist. Three pretty young women who ...

Even before the addition of sound to film production in 1927, Hollywood always reserved for itself the right to the remake. One of the late...

Quite by chance, in August 2010, I read an article in The New Yorker (on its website, that is) by Richard Brody called " Truffaut...

When the reputedly "unsinkable" R.M.S. Titanic sank after colliding with an iceberg in the North Atlantic one hundred years ago t...

Some time ago I mentioned in passing a saying of Leonardo da Vinci's: "nothing can be loved unless it is first known." I spec...

[The painting on the right is "The Procession to Calvary" by Peter Breughel the Elder. From afar it looks like an unremarkable vil...

I know what the world has done to my brother and how narrowly he has survived it. And I know, which is much worse, and this is the crime of ...