Sarah A. Son, University of Sheffield Squid Game is anything but your typical, saccharine, soft-glow Korean television drama. In this biting commentary on life in South Korea today, viewers are presented with a twisting, technicolour story of violence, betrayal and … Continue reading Squid Game: the real debt crisis shaking South Korea that inspired the hit TV show
By Pepe Escobar The buzz in Los Angeles is that Argo will win this year’s Oscar for Best Picture. The Ben Affleck-directed CIA thriller has already won Best Picture at the Golden Globes, the Directors Guild of America, the Screen Actors Guild and the Producers Guild. Only in Hollywood you can win Best Picture without the guy who put it all together being nominated for Best Director (that will most certainly be Hollywood’s Zeus, Steven Spielberg, for his Civil War epicLincoln). Are we talking politics and movies? You betcha. It’s impossible to understand Washington without spending time in Hollywood. I had a ball … Continue reading Zero Dark Oscar
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