“Babylon” confuses excess with entertainment
“Babylon” paints the picture of Hollywood as the city of cinema during the transition from silent movies to talkies.
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“Holy Spider” movie spins an unsettling web of moral confusion
“Holy Spider”, Denmark’s official submission for Best International Film at the Academy Awards 2023 is awfully hard to watch and a purposefully nasty piece of work – but could any responsible version of this horrific true crime exist that isn’t? As writer-director Ali Abbasi said in a recent interview: “My intention was not to make […]
Title’s Favorites
What had the Title Editorial Team on their radar the last month and what kept us on our toes? What kept us busy and what could we not take our eyes off of? Here are the answers: We collected the most notable, fun and outstanding news and recommendations from fashion, culture and music for January 2023. This time around with personal favorites we got or gifted.
Films I Wish I Had Watched as a Kid
What is it to have feelings for same-sex people, not fit beauty standards, to be normal among extraordinary people, and how to deal with trauma and grief are some of the themes seen in recent films, which we wish we would’ve watched in our early years so we could be more open and sensitive about current issues.
Hating on Taylor Swift is Anti-Feminist
Or: How a pop music icon helped to overcome my internalized misogyny. She started as a wavy-haired, platinum blonde teenage country singer, sweet and shy, before skyrocketing to stardom. Taylor Swift has now dominated the music industry for more than a decade. Revered as a role model for her poise and grace, Swift is surely […]
Title’s Monthly Picks
What had the Title Editorial Team on their radar the last month and what kept us on our toes? What kept us busy and what could we not take our eyes off of? Here are the answers: We collected the most notable, fun and outstanding news and recommendations from fashion, culture and music for November 2022.
Our Culture Loves to Bathe in Nostalgia
As social and economic crises hit these generations the most, to monetise feelings of comfort, security and love is to head back to the 90s and early 00s: Everywhere we look there’s a reboot, remake, revival and anything else that stands for reproducing these decades. Are we stuck in the past or our present simply sucks?
German Migrant Cinema Broke the Barriers for Rap Bio Pics
Last week saw the world premiere of Rheingold, the newest movie by acclaimed German director Fatih Akin. Rheingold does not only mark his 22nd directing credit – including the critically acclaimed Gegen die Wand (Head-On, 2004) and Golden Globe-winning Aus dem Nichts (In the Fade, 2017). Rheingold‘s topic is the biography of German-Iranian rap star […]
Title’s Monthly Picks
What had the Title Editorial Team on their radar the last month and what kept us on our toes? What kept us busy and what could we not take our eyes off of? Here are the answers: We collected the most notable, fun and outstanding news and recommendations from fashion, lifestyle and beauty for October […]
From Witchcraft to Bitch Craft: Pop Culture Loves Depicting Brujas
The history of witches in pop culture is not only one about bad witches and evil acts but about hostilities and tensions in a patriarchal society that’s at odds with women, and witchcraft has historically been a way for women to step outside the bounds of society — or to fully reinforce it and conform to it, as seen on Bewitched.
