Why are we watching horror in the most hopeless times, explains the film critic Shot from the movie "Neon Demon". Source: Kinopoisk Over the past ten years, horror films have finally left category “B” and turned into a superpopular genre for a wide audience. The history of mass disasters and crises shows a strange dependence: the higher the level of uncertainty in society and the worse news reports, the higher the audience request for horror and thrillers.

A very terrible film about a maniac based on real events Frame from the film "Killer" Holy Spider " The Iranian Noir “The Sacred Spider Killer” Ali Abbasi, the Thriller's chill, about the serial killer in Mashhad, who hunted street sex workers and killed them at home. The film critic Alice Taiga tells how the real history of past murders resonates with current events in Iran and why the “killer ...” is so different from other Iranian films familiar to the audience.

The series "Related to death" breaks television standards, displaying the topic of female health, motherhood and sexuality to the most public level Frame from the series "Related to death" At the streams, a mini-series “Related to death” with Rachel Weiss, a rome by a religious body triller of the eighties director David Kronenberg, was released. The new project is not a copy, but a modern rethinking of transgressive classics.

How Covid and sanctions returned Russian viewers during illegal films Cinema "October" in Moscow. Photo: Wikimedia Commons, CC by-SA 4.0 Cinemas have been buried for the past ten years, but never a lethal diagnosis has never seemed so likely. Kovid at the beginning of 2020 and sanctions in 2022 radically changed the habits of Russian spectators: objectively cannot be opposed to trackers and pirate sites-neither in variety nor in terms of access.

The last season of the series "Heirs" - about huge money, power and a broken family Photo: Kinopoisk The first episode of the long -awaited last season of the NVO “Heirs” series, one of the most titled and popular television and telephones of the 21st century, was released at the streams. The modern “Game of Thrones” is the story of one spoiled family, led by an influential media Magnate, who, due to age and health, is time to transfer affairs of the multi -billion dollar media -imperia.

“Naughty”: a young eco -activist from Moscow becomes the heroine of “50 shades of gray”. Yes, this is a really existing Russian cinema (new!), And Petrov even plays in it Photo: Kinopoisk A domestic romantic comedy with a political message was released on Russian rental on Valentine's Day. A scraping student of a biofac, opposing construction site in Bitsevsky Park, taps an developer performed by Alexander Petrov.

Film critic Alice Taiga talks about the films of the main festival of independent cinema Photo: EPA-EFE/George Frey On January 19–29, the annual festival "Sandance" was held in the US state of Utah - the main world show of independent cinema. For more than 30 years, new names have been discovered here: from the “old men” this is Quentin Tarantino, Wes Anderson and Richard Linklater, from the new generation - the Chloe Zhao, Damien Shazell or Ryan Johnson, debuted on Sandance.

A selection of films that are useful to watch if you live in repressive states Briefly Russia's attack on Ukraine, tens of thousands of dead. The war has been going on for more than 300 days. Inside Russia, thousands of political prisoners, military censorship, a lot of new repressive laws. You can easily imagine that all this will soon be described in books and cinema.

Briefly Forcibly relations, especially partnerships, are one of the most common topics in the cinema. In addition to physical violence between partners, social pressure, discrimination and moral violence, they are subjected to work, in relations with relatives, in close community and friends.

Briefly Emmy America destroys the established traditions of gloss. On her account is the cover for the Russian Vogue, shooting for Numéro and L'Officiel, as well as protests and auction in support of women who survived violence. Now she is one of the most popular young photographers, works in Russia, France and Great Britain. Emmy told Utopia about censorship and self -censorship, politics, studying abroad and the principles of working with fashion magazines.

Another participant in the short-list from Russia is the film by Andrei Konchalovsky "Dear comrades!" On the execution of the demonstration of workers in Novocherkassk in 1962 Photo: Needpix.com The Oscar ceremony this year will be held on April 25. The previous film is the documentary of Kosakovsky-“Watercolor”-last year was also in the short list of Oscars, but did not receive a reward. The documentary "Gunda" is a chronicle of the life of an ordinary home pig that lives on the Norwegian farm.

What Emma Watson is fighting for (and why she is accused of hypocrisy) Photo: Yoram Kahana / Shooting Star / Sipa USA / Scanpix / Leta Disney fairy tale “Beauty and the Beast” was released, the main role in which is played by one of the highest paid actresses of the young generation, British Emma Watson. In the past - Hermione in the Harry Potter over -off -off franchise, at the age of 26, Watson is the UN Goodwill Ambassador and an activist with a worked out image and a million fans.

A brief retelling of David Greber's book “Debt. The first 5000 years of history ”(M., Ad Marginem, 2015). Context The book of the American anthropologist David Greber was written after the global economic crisis of 2008, when the author became one of the ideologists and main speakers of the OcCupy Wall Street movement.

A brief retelling of David Brooks's book “Public Animal”. Context The book of David Brooks, a sociologist, teacher of the University of Yale and the constant columnist The New York Times, is a long -term bestseller among popular books on social psychology. Brooks tells the history of human life within the framework of society - birth, upbringing, the appearance of the first social ties, love and career achievements - on the example of two biographies he invented.

Every film festival with a program of a hundred films, new and old, first gives rise to an astringent feeling of envy of oneself, and then sadness from the fact that one cannot watch everything. If you go and watch films that are interesting to everyone, then you start to freak out that there is no room left for the unexpected and surprising.