Anthem Magazine

2024-03-22

In biblical terms, Limbo is the border place between heaven and hell where unbaptized souls go to get sorted. In common parlance, limbo is, of course...

2024-03-19

Femme, Sam H. Freeman and Ng Choon Ping’s joint feature-length directorial debut, is a film of our moment. Galvanizing very current themes of gender presentation...

2024-03-01

You know their faces, even if you can’t quite place their names. The character actor is the very paradigm of that old saying: The man whose face everyone...

2024-01-26

A child wanders the desert, gnawing on a severed finger. Meanwhile, a hiker traverses the same terrain in search of the perfect spot in which to photograph...

2024-01-24

The central theme at the heart of H.P. Lovecraft’s writing was this idea that we live in a howling, empty void—a cosmos that’s indifferent to humanity...

2023-12-30

When Kōji Yakusho picked up the Best Actor prize at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival for his leading role in Wim Wenders’ Perfect Days, it was the first...

2023-12-14

Wim Wenders’ stamina is formidable. An icon of the New Wave of German Cinema, the 78-year-old auteur has captivated audiences in a career that now spans...

2023-12-12

The latest in a long line of “What if?” mashups, Matthew Brown’s Freud’s Last Session pits Sigmund Freud against C.S. Lewis in an intellectual fantasy...

2023-12-11

Pierce Brosnan is a hard man to chase down these days—maybe always?—and perhaps for reasons you wouldn’t expect. It might come as a surprise to many that...

2023-12-10

The Gilded Age was a period of untold opulence. That is, for a select few. Industry came into its own on the backs of the Vanderbilts, the Carnegies and...