by Joseph A. Hazani September 11, 2022
What becomes of man when he develops the scientific reasoning that creates the capability of destroying his natural moral progress? Planet of the Apes provides a grand moral idea of the erstwhile beast that humans can form into. Yet what the film majestically leaves subtle is in the irreversibility of human degeneracy brought about by wild starry-eyed ambitions for a better....
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by Joseph A. Hazani September 9, 2022
Eran Barnea presents us a confrontation of vanity in his welcomed exhibition as part of the Fall Reception at TAG Gallery. His aim at representing, though certainly in a mischievous manner, the haloed self-gratification of personalities creating their own electromagnetic vortices of grandeur, requires one to openly examine the health of such a now normative occupancy in so many people’s lives....
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by Joseph A. Hazani September 7, 2022
“War is hell,” a helicopter gunner answers matter-of-factly to a combat reporter as he finishes mowing down innocent Vietnamese farmers. It is an ugly truth that the conditions of survival, when coordinated at such massive industrial scales, creates a moment in American History which has been canonized by Filmmakers of great renown. In Mr. Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket, we have a....
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