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Sic Semper Tyrannis: The Legacy of Kim Jong-il

Share Imagine that God is dead. Not in an allegorical, Nietzschian sense, but literally. The physical being you believe represents everything good in the world, whom you have worshipped since you were a child, is gone. The being whose birth, you believe, “…was foretold by a swallow, and heralded by the appearance of a double rainbow...

Review: Jeff Nichols’s ‘Take Shelter’

Share “There’s a storm a-coming”, yells Curtis (Academy Award nominated Michael Shannon) with the visceral power of a Southern baptist preacher, “and none of you are prepared for it!” Churchgoers tremble in their chairs. He breaks down in tears. His wife rushes to comfort him. “Take Shelter”  is a moving, haunting and powerful piece of...