If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. In Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire — which somehow skips over "Godzilla 4 Kong: The Honeymoon Years" — their relationship has evolved into a precarious détente. Back beneath the earth's crust, Kong clashes with a hostile army of apes led by the villainous Skar King, an aggrieved simian with questionable grooming habits, …
In Slate’s annual Movie Club, film critic Dana Stevens emails with fellow critics—for 2023, Bilge Ebiri, Esther Zuckerman, and Mark Harris—about the year in cinema. But Keoghan’s cannily underacted performance lends the story a moral complexity the script itself never quite earns, and though the final twist is bad—it’s predictable, overexplained by the Keoghan character’s here’s-how-I-did-it framing monologue, and way …
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Umber: The colour of debauchery Wikimedia The umber pigment was first made from Italian soil. Swipe umber from the paintbox of art history and the dramatic chiaroscuro of Caravaggio’s canvases and the meditativeness of Rothko’s 1962 work Untitled would dissolve into drabness. Wikimedia Rembrandt created almost 100 self-portraits, about a tenth of his overall output Rembrandt’s incessant self-portraiture, moreover, is …
