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Gay teens and white privilege
- Tim Kroenert
- 04 April 2018
4 Comments
For gay teens and those who known them, the film is vitally affirming. But there's baggage that comes with its treatment of these themes that undercuts its efforts to engage the experience of alternative sexual orientation. Simon may be gay, but he is also explicitly a privileged white man.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Women's divine rights
- Tim Kroenert
- 23 March 2018
We know how this is going to turn out historically: the 1971 referendum is successful. There is a certain quaintness to the film that makes it feel off the pace of the current conversation around women's rights. But there is an engaging frankness to its attention to the sexual liberative dimension of women's self-agency.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

God in the cell
- Tim Kroenert
- 16 March 2018
2 Comments
Kane insists God doesn't make mistakes: 'That's what makes him God.' Lena retorts with reference to the Hayflick limit — the naturally occurring limit on the number of times cells can divide. Never mind cancer; the very fact of ageing, she says, comes down to a flaw in our DNA. It's a telling scene, pointing to a scientifically enlightened humanity at odds with its own physiology.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Rights, obligations and the art of caring
- Tim Kroenert
- 07 March 2018
1 Comment
Last year Brooklyn Museum exhibited radical 20th century works by American women of colour alongside The Dinner Party, a 1970s Second Wave feminist piece noted for its white, middle-class preoccupations. The resonance of this pairing illuminates the plight of Christian, hero of the Swedish art-world farce The Square.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Lady Bird's riposte to Hollywood sexism
- Tim Kroenert
- 28 February 2018
8 Comments
That Hollywood has a gender equality problem is not in doubt. The conversations around what constitutes assault and harassment, and about how Hollywood culture reflects and reinforces equality in society at large, is vital, and sophisticated. The standard of what we should expect is being constantly raised. It should be.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Loving hating Tonya Harding
- Tim Kroenert
- 21 February 2018
4 Comments
If you're looking for concrete facts, look somewhere else. What Robbie gives us instead a portrait of a sympathetic antihero, whose rough and 'redneck' manner stands in contrast to her profound abilities, and at odds with the gentility of her chosen sport. Meanwhile her farcical mantra 'It wasn't my fault' whenever things go wrong is given weight by a portrayal of serial abuse.
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ECONOMICS

Don't let business mindset stifle the arts
- David James
- 20 February 2018
2 Comments
The practice of appointing business people to oversee arts bodies is as questionable as referring to the arts as an 'industry'. Business and the arts work on almost diametrically opposed rationales. Understanding this might go a long way towards assessing the art world more intelligently.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Brutal Aboriginal fable in the postwar outback
- Tim Kroenert
- 31 January 2018
6 Comments
Aboriginal filmmaker Warwick Thornton exercises his visual mastery to its fullest in order to elevate a straightforward story of outback brutality and racial prejudice to the proportions of myth.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Trump and Nixon vs the media
- Tim Kroenert
- 17 January 2018
1 Comment
As America endures one of the most authoritarian and chaotic presidencies in its history, Richard Nixon has, for obvious reasons, been a recurring touchstone for many commentators. Given the clear comparisons, it's no surprise Steven Spielberg pulled out all the stops to bring The Post to the public ASAP.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Students learn where power lies
- Tim Kroenert
- 29 November 2017
5 Comments
When misused power remains unchallenged, it is the most vulnerable who suffer most. The truism finds acerbic embodiment in the Slovak-Czech black comedy The Teacher, whose setting in 1983 communist-ruled Czechoslovakia provides a historical backdrop that doubles as an analogy for any socio-political context where power can be a means to personal ends.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Quiet pilgrimage of an ageing atheist
- Tim Kroenert
- 16 November 2017
2 Comments
Lately Lucky has death on his mind, and these and other various acquaintances serve as stars by which he navigates his close-held fears of impending oblivion.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Clear and present history of cops killing black men
- Tim Kroenert
- 05 November 2017
1 Comment
Detroit weaves archival footage with recreations of the racially charged 12th Street Riot of 1967, a moment poised against the civil rights movement and the disenfranchisement of urban blacks, before homing in on the incident at the Algiers motel - a cross-section within a cross-section of that moment in history, where three black citizens were beaten and killed by police.
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Keywords: Tim Kroenert