Given the prescience of the subject matter, this is a disappointingly middlebrow Palestine-set drama from British-Palestinian writer-director Farah Nabulsi. ‘The Blue Kaftan’s’ Saleh Bakri is Basem an English teacher in occupied Palestine. Two of his pupi…

The Bad Politics of Good Taste. The Nation magazine’s perfect summation of Nathalie Olah’s Bad Taste. How does ‘good taste’ in the world of fashion or leisure or art, for instance, support the world of big business and capitalist fundamentalism? How has l…

Canadian actor-turned-writer-director Park’s comedy drama sports a clever conceit that it only partially takes advantage of. Elliott Labrant (Stella) is a queer eighteen-year-old just finished high school and about to set off to college. During a mushroom…