Reviews

A graduate policy review of Mallory O'Meara's Girly Drinks — on how brewing beer, running speakeasies, and ordering a drink have always been about power, and what that means for policy today.

The superhero movie Hollywood quite know exists. Most people love Earth's mightiest superheroes (including me). Taking the big screen by storm, they redefined the superhero genre and brought beloved comics to life. Yet these heroes are also the front for villainy masquerading as good cinema — a billion-dollar blockade against any film that dares venture into the superhero genre with a smaller budget and a language other than English. Dramatic, I know, but for the purposes her

A courtroom thriller that puts the media on trial and finds everyone guilty. There is a moment in Jana Gana Mana where a character poses a question that the film spends its entire runtime refusing to answer cleanly: is the media there to provide the truth, or has it become the truth itself? It is the kind of question that lands differently depending on which country you're watching from — but in 2022 India, it lands like a verdict. A wave of Indian films has emerged in recent