The race for the documentary feature Academy Award spotlights quality filmmaking, but also requires a whole lot of money and ...

The actor recalls his life, from provincial Wales to Hollywood, in stop-start rhythms with curt, unflinching reckonings.

Welcome to B-List Britain, a new and exclusive Metro Travel series with Ben Aitken, the author of the book Shitty Breaks. This week, he’s in ...

This week, New York mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo scaled a skyscraper, drove a subway train, and moonlighted as a Broadway stagehand—or at least you might think he had if you didn’t read the fine ...

The current political climate in the world today has me thinking about the books of George Orwell, especially Nineteen Eighty ...

The organizations behind Banned Books Week based this year's theme, "Censorship Is So 1984. Read for Your Rights," on Orwell's sobering story to show we may be closer in real life to his dystopia than ...

George Orwell's writings warning of the dangers of totalitarian and authoritarian states gave the English language the term "Orwellian." A new documentary called "Orwell: 2+2=5” argues that Orwell's ...

Netflix's 'The Perfect Neighbor' follows with six nods. By Beatrice Verhoeven Awards Editor The Critics Choice Association has unveiled its nominees for the 2025 Critics Choice Documentary Awards, ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. George Orwell was dying when he wrote 1984 in the late 1940s on the desolate Isle of Jura in Scotland’s Inner Hebrides. Tuberculosis ravaged his body, and typing ...

The most absurd. You know, it sounds innocent. It even sounds ridiculous. But that's play with your minds. And so that's a regression. And some people think it's, well, I've heard that argument. Well, ...

It’s fitting that Raoul Peck’s latest documentary, “Orwell: 2+2=5,” is hitting theaters across the country during this year’s Banned Books Week. Since its publication in 1949, George Orwell’s ...