Joko Anwar on Using Horror-Comedy to Expose Systemic Rot in Berlin-Bound ‘Ghost in the Cell’: ‘Laughter Should Come With Discomfort’

Indonesian filmmaker Joko Anwar discusses his Berlinale title, where supernatural terror becomes a vehicle for examining ...
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How Russia Is Recruiting Central Asian Women For Its War In Ukraine

Thousands of Central Asians are believed to have joined Russia’s war effort in Ukraine, including women who were coerced or lured by offers of lucrative jobs.

Deadlier Than Gettysburg

Fitzhugh Brundage’s gripping new book, aptly titled A Fate Worse Than Hell: American Prisoners of the Civil War, represents an essential contribution to this rethinking in its account of what was ...

I trawl through Assad’s mass graves to identify slaughtered civilians – I’ve seen nails ripped off and kneecaps drilled

HUMAN bones were visible on the surface of a mass grave near Damascus, left behind after years of secret removals. This is ...

Sullen and Sunburned: The Tradition of Castaways at the Movies

Send Help” is just the latest take on a survivalist premise that dates to the 1719 novel “Robinson Crusoe.” These six movies ...

5 Lane Bryant Employees Inexplicably Killed in Illinois Store Subject of Documentary 18 Years Later, as $100,000 Reward Remains

Six women were tied up and shot in the back of the Lane Bryant store in Tinley Park, Ill., on Feb. 2, 2008. 18 years later, family and friends hope for answers as the search for the suspect continues, ...

Two Colville women were booked into a rural Washington jail. It became a death sentence

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