Through reviews and longer articles, ArteFact keeps a finger on the pulse of how our culture is reflecting on itself.
Film FictionA Review of Netflix's Messiah.
A Review of Greta Gerwig's Little Women (2019).
A Review of Terrence Malick's A Hidden Life (2019).
A Review of Paul Mazursky's Tempest (1982).
A Review of John Krasinski's A Quiet Place (2018).
The award-winning original Netflix series, Stranger Things, recently had fans glued to their laptops when all eight episodes of Season 3 were released online on the Fourth of July 2019. It has to be said, the series is not for the faint of heart.
In Paula Huston’s novel A Land Without Sin, it is 1993 in the war-torn jungles of Central America, and Eva Kovic is looking for her lost brother.
Lucy Beckett’s novel The Time Before You Die: A Novel of the Reformation effectively conveys a queasy, uncomfortable immediacy to the whiplash-inducing movements of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, and subsequent backlash against the Counter-Reformation, in England in the 16th and 17th centuries. Several centuries later, Philip Trower’s A Danger to the State depicts the consequences of the Reformation in the full bloom of the Enlightenment - one of which is that religious truths increasingly serve politically expedient realities.
Morris West, The Devil’s Advocate (William Morrow & Co, 1959).
'To be or not to be, that is the question' voices an even more universal problem than King Lear's: not so much about identity, as being.
