Новости за 16.06.2017

Summer is for scary movies. Everybody stays up late and the night is full of noises. In the heat the city shimmers with tension, in the countryside animals seem to be up all night, watching. Two movies attempt to offer up blockbuster shivers this summer: the latest installment of The Mummy franchise and the much-hyped contagion thriller It Comes at Night. Both movies connect to venerable movie-making traditions, invoking classics of American horror.

Donald Trump’s presidency might be a catastrophe of epic proportions, but you have to grant him one thing: He’s made Americans pay attention to whatever the commander-in-chief is saying. On April 28, for instance, the White House issued the kind of presidential proclamation that is usually the proverbial tree falling in the forest, unheard and unseen. Like every president since Eisenhower, Trump proclaimed May 1 to be Loyalty Day—the occasion first invented during the Red Scare of the 1920s to counter the traditional pro-worker May Day. Читать дальше...

Unbrekable Kimmy Schmidt is a comedy about trauma. The show, which premiered as a Netflix original in 2015 and released a third season last month, is about the adventures of the bright-eyed Kimmy, an escaped victim of kidnapping, imprisonment, and—it’s implied—repeated rape by the leader of a religious cult. The show’s premise is dark, but its comedy is light: In that contrast lies its appeal, and the basis of its wry and affectionate update on the sitcom. Kimmy Schmidt was recently picked up for a fourth season... Читать дальше...

As the old saying goes, nothing screams “clean hands” like repeatedly phoning up the FBI director for updates on your investigative status, asking him to publicly exonerate you, asking other intelligence chiefs to quash the FBI’s work, firing the FBI director, then attacking the prosecutor assigned to oversee the investigation that you wanted the fired FBI director to interrupt.

What, exactly, is “women’s news?” Flipping through women’s magazines and clicking on women’s blogs, you’re pointed to fashion, sex, and childrearing. You learn that women must ensure their “wellness” levels are off the chart, lest they risk being not well enough, and that women, unlike men, are not powerful, but empowered. When it comes to politics, you are told that women’s issues are reproductive rights, gender discrimination, paid family leave, and sexual assault. Issues like foreign policy and the tax code—not so much. Читать дальше...