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Through reviews and longer articles, ArteFact keeps a finger on the pulse of how our culture is reflecting on itself.
Film Fiction Theatre Music PoetryMost anime offerings are shallow or crass, which makes the good ones stand out all the more. They not only provide magnificent artwork, storytelling and character development; they also give unexpected insights about the human condition, the virtues, and faith. Violet Evergarden, Taichi Ishidate’s quiet and beautifully animated adaption of the steampunk light novel series by Kana Akatsuki, does all of these.
A review of Denis Villeneuve's Arrival (2016).
By all normal “rules” of the world of television, a sitcom about the afterlife and moral philosophy should not have worked, but it did, not least because the writing is quick, clever, and smarter than most anything I’ve seen.
A Review of Trevor Jimenez’s Weekends.
A 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.