| 单词 | apocalyptic |
| 例句 | The scene was apocalyptic, but...it was a calm apocalypse. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I watch as he surveys the apocalyptic scene before him, then raises his arms like a conductor and in an instant every power tool goes silent. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z “Wait until she hears of my apocalyptic meeting with Miss O’Hara.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They made fun of his tantrums, his outdated cane, and his apocalyptic predictions, and said he looked like a crow in his mourning. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Now I project it out into an apocalyptic future. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z I still had one arm draped over Bluie, in fact, when I awoke just after four in the morning with an apocalyptic pain fingering out from the unreachable center of my head. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z This apocalyptic cycle had occurred four times before. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Such apocalyptic scenarios have invited skepticism since Henry Dobyns first drew them to wide attention. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Or when Henry Lee flooded him with apocalyptic premonitions if assumption somehow were to pass, he counseled patience and greater trust in the wisdom of Congress. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Although the rise of this crime wave long predated crack, the trend was so exacerbated by crack that criminologists got downright apocalyptic in their predictions. of youth violence. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The rumble of bombs had quieted and the sirens had finally wound down, and I wondered if all that apocalyptic noise had been keeping me awake. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z For some reason, I was the only one who received these apocalyptic phone calls from him. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Clara woke a little before it, having had an apocalyptic nightmare of exploded horses, cows hurled into the sea, people crawling under stones, and gaping caverns in the earth into which whole houses were falling. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The faintly lit hatchway lay in the dark of the yard like a grave yawning at judgment day in some old apocalyptic painting. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z There were not many who paid attention to his apocalyptic talk, for the town was convinced that the priest was rambling because of his age. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z One man who took such apocalyptic speculation seriously was Leo Szilard, the energetic and resourceful Hungarian physicist who had tried to patent a prototypical cyclotron just before Lawrence’s practical invention. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z On this Holy Thursday, Father Restrepo had led his audience to the limits of their endurance with his apocalyptic visions, and Nivea was beginning to feel dizzy. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The constant wave of tropical storms and hurricanes that menaced coastal Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida in the summer of 2004 turned their relaxed Southern coastal life into an apocalyptic struggle for survival. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “Then this really is like the start of all good apocalyptic nightmares,” he said. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Adams, usually the more apocalyptic member of the team, in this instance adopted the more sanguine Jeffersonian posture. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Which meant sea levels rising at an alarming and apocalyptic rate. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Or so it seems to his father as, on a fan-cooled veranda, he entertains apocalyptic thoughts of marching armies, a new dynasty, the end of society as they know it. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Indeed, the only adult males in the whole of Berlin’s population exempt from defensive duties during its apocalyptic fall to the Red Army in April-May 1945 were the members of the Berlin Philharmonic. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z After a few minutes of these apocalyptic pronouncements, he seemed to wear himself out and fell into an uneasy sleep. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Along the way, there is internecine strife between the gods and some flying Hell’s Angels, the magnificently apocalyptic Valkyries. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “He saw the world in an apocalyptic view — that, but for his efforts, we were going to descend into a hellhole.” This Hill staffer (maybe) saved the free world. But all he wants is a career in theater. 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z Damon said films were the best vehicle to help humans empathize with each other, adding that despite its apocalyptic tone, "Downsizing" ultimately is an optimistic movie. Shrunken Matt Damon opens 74th Venice film festival 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z Perhaps we should not be surprised that grim apocalyptic images suddenly saturate the cultural imaginary. Zombie state 2012-06-08T14:45:00Z The Revolution said Wednesday that they and the world mourned Prince "with profound loss and apocalyptic grief" after learning of his death in April. Prince backup band The Revolution to reunite for 2 shows 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z As for humanity itself, and this planet we inhabit, spinning through the universe, that’s another question, one prompted by the work’s visceral, apocalyptic imagery. Review: On Faye Driscoll’s Life Raft, Spinning Toward the Unknown 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z They are casualties of an apocalyptic drug war, a thriving human smuggling trade and, more broadly, a deeply dysfunctional relationship between the U.S. and Mexico. A better border is possible 2012-05-26T22:00:00Z “We said we wanted a baby this year no matter what, but we didn’t think there’d be an apocalyptic event,” he said. Family Life Is Chaotic. Could Office Software Help? 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z The movie, the eighth, is tightly focused and as somber and unsettling as it should be considering its apocalyptic events. | 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2': Childhood Vanishing in Swirls of Smoke 2011-07-14T01:03:02Z Is there a long-running soap opera that hasn't suffered mass casualties and apocalyptic emotional trauma? Waiting for book 'go' 2011-01-05T12:22:13Z Surveying a landscape of impending ecological catastrophe, it proposes a future that is only mildly dystopian and prescribes laughter rather than apocalyptic despair as, if not exactly a remedy, then at least an acceptable palliative. Review: In ‘Downsizing,’ Matt Damon Sweats the Small Stuff 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z Disaster-filled dystopian stories abound in movies, television and fiction; news headlines verge on apocalyptic. A Sci-Fi Writer Returns to Earth: ‘The Real Story Is the One Facing Us’ 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z That the Christakises were again able to secure positions as House Masters at Silliman College, a residence at Yale, a few years after authoring the controversial piece only proves how hysterical their apocalyptic predictions were. Who’s really demanding to be coddled on campus? Yale students aren’t the spoiled brats for refusing to be racially trolled on Halloween 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z Blame the news release, which promised an “apocalyptic vibe.” Dirty Habit, reviewed: The noir doesn’t work, but the bar does 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z America’s current crisis of fracture and extremism can’t be clearly explored through the lens of pop culture — especially if that lens is focused even more narrowly on superhero, fantasy, science fiction and apocalyptic horror. What Our Extremist Politics Owe to Batman and Captain America 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z Depending on what sources you look at, the predictions for robotic job takeover are either negligible or apocalyptic. Artisanal pizza made by Bruno the robot, and other true tales of automated food 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z But the traffic to exit in the morning was absolutely apocalyptic. EDC opening night: Cakes in the face and Disney remixes 2014-06-21T04:00:00Z "Take Shelter" star Michael Shannon earned a lead-actor nomination as a family man who comes unhinged amid visions of a coming apocalyptic storm. 'Artist,' 'Take Shelter' lead Spirit Awards noms 2011-11-29T18:29:10Z Only Kevin Sr. has an “important” question: He wants his son to find Christopher Sunday and learn the last tribal song, to ward off another apocalyptic flood. ‘The Leftovers’ Season 3, Episode 6: The End Is Near 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z Lileana Blain-Cruz’s revival of Thornton Wilder’s apocalyptic comedy fills the vastness of the Vivian Beaumont Theater with bold color and outsize scale as it follows an American family through assorted disasters of history. ‘I Want to Live in That Room’: Designers on Their Broadway Sets 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z The movie, which co-stars Trevante Rhodes, is an apocalyptic horror film in which the end of the world comes in the form of mass suicide. “Bird Box,” Reviewed: An Apocalypse Built for Netflix 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z Clarinet, horn and viola fragments grew increasingly agitated in another of Dante’s texts, culminating in a dense outburst for the soprano’s apocalyptic declamation of “Now you can understand.” Review: A Dark, Haunting Work by Michael Hersch Gets a Premiere 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z The piece was dedicated to the singer, Sarah Connolly, who reveals in the Proms programme that the composer's score includes directions such as 'apocalyptic', 'suddenly still', and 'rapt and intense'. Proms unveils new Tavener works 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z Opposing ideas exist about how to deal with apocalyptic events in a literary sense. Understanding apocalyptic events through literature 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z Certainly, we have to embrace such an apocalyptic time, because the alternative is hand-wringing inertia, and that’s perfect for those in power. 'Trump made me do it': director Nicolas Winding Refn on how the American apocalypse is fuelling 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z "As the saying goes, what goes around comes around. We live in remarkably stressful and rather apocalyptic times where stress-related difficulties create a tsunami of mental health challenges," says Plante. 10 ways to manage stress, according to mental health experts 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z They are the only employees who bother to act on their suspicions of Regus, whose plans appear to extend beyond CompWare in lurid and possibly apocalyptic ways. ‘The Consultant’ Review: Silicon Valley Goes to the Devil 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z Playfully apocalyptic, they move in the manner of lethargic atoms. What to see in L.A. galleries: street-art ethos, a mesmerizing digital canvas, wild tapestries 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z According to a tweet from the cookie maker, however, there is a coded lock on the door, ensuring the contents are saved for an apocalyptic event. Oreo builds asteroid-proof bunker above permafrost line, fills it with cookies and powdered milk 2020-10-25T04:00:00Z Only on “For Me” does Showalter notably veer away from the straightforward lyrics, with a metaphor that captures the all-encompassing, occasionally apocalyptic power of his emotions: “The sun fell out of the sky.” REVIEW: The Musical Reinvention of Strand of Oaks 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z Soon after, his view turned from disapproving to downright apocalyptic — in sculptures and installations of Teletubbies dressed in riot gear, of human heads and hands bundled into shopping carts, of Manhattan half-drowned by rising seas. Josh Kline’s Survival Art for 21st-Century America 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z But publishers fear an apocalyptic scenario in which Amazon swallows a huge percentage of the marketplace by under-selling other outlets. The Department of Justice vs. the Publishers: Nobody Wins 2012-06-20T10:45:46Z The early stuff was so apocalyptic and so intense, and my favorite thing about it was that all the materials were recycled. | Chris Johanson on the Apocalyptic Machines of Kal Spelletich 2013-08-16T18:48:15Z In the episode Garrison goes on to cross the border illegally via Niagara Falls, and then wanders an apocalyptic Canada until he finds himself in Trump’s penthouse office, where the two wrestle. South Park depicts Donald Trump being brutally murdered 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z These apocalyptic fantasies, so characteristic of the fin-de-siècle, reached their apogee in a spectacular book that Corton leaves out of her study, perhaps because the extinction extends beyond London to the entire globe: M.P. “London Fog,” a study of the great city’s legendary atmosphere 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z In next week’s episode Aslan visits an apocalyptic doomsday cult in Hawaii lead by a guy who calls himself, no joke, JeZus. Failed conversion: “Believer with Reza Aslan” wants to touch faith, but embraces sensationalism instead 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z “Fullmetal Alchemist” and “Neon Genesis Evangelion,” with their apocalyptic religious symbols, showed Phillips that “to be human is to be constantly in the process of building and breaking down systems of belief.” What Even Is a Nerd Anymore? 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z Holter, with a keyboard and a string quartet, was opulent and delicate – but Hecker and Lopatin created a huge, swelling, apocalyptic din, where orchestral samples were mangled and distorted with laptop noise. When the church turns into a pub 2012-12-27T08:00:05Z Yet it is more than anything apocalyptic, including for many of the central characters. The great bobachee-connah 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z They run the gamut from blackly funny to apocalyptic, with a few surprisingly cheerful stops along the way. Review | Lionel Shriver’s ‘Should We Stay or Should We Go’ offers many variations on a couple’s fate 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z High temperatures turn deadly, apocalyptic storms are on the rise and feral pigs roam the planet — leading an eccentric entrepreneur to propose shooting sulfur into the atmosphere to cool things down. 16 New Books Coming in November 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z Like with St. Vincent, she’s very wintry and fragile but also kind of apocalyptic. How to Summon the Comic (!) Spirit of Martha Graham 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z Many of their books have apocalyptic titles: “Outrage,” “Catastrophe” and “Here Come the Black Helicopters!” Dick Morris Takes Aim at Hillary Clinton From a Tabloid Perch 2016-07-09T04:00:00Z Mr. Cronenberg’s apocalyptic film is perhaps best appreciated not for its topical links to the real world but for giving form to the nightmares of our age. Film: ‘Cosmopolis,’ Cronenberg’s Take on Don DeLillo 2012-08-03T16:00:00Z This is why Swan was compelled to write this book, one with apocalyptic implications. The Everyday Chemicals That Might Be Leading Us to Our Extinction 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z If Clinton was the icon of ambivalence, and Bush the icon of incompetence, the icon of hope has been transformed into the truly hopeless image of political gridlock and apocalyptic rancor. | Let Us Now Praise Infamous Men 2013-09-04T19:12:10Z Returning to the novel at this moment, when panic reading is all the rage, offers a perspective different from that of many apocalyptic best sellers, new and old. A Different Kind of Dystopian Novel 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z It’s really apocalyptic but really funny, too, and layered with physical comedy and conceptual things. Tim Heidecker: 'I'll be watching a Burger King review and suddenly think, what am I doing?' 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z “Last Man on Earth”: Will Forte stars as the sorta-kinda ringleader of a small group of people who’ve survived an apocalyptic plague. What You Should Watch This Week if You’re Missing a Favorite Show 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z There’s also room for apocalyptic imagery, though Band of Horses makes “Life on Earth” feel hazy-beautiful, more narcotic than alarmed. Critics? Choice: New CD?s by Christina Aguilera and Lil Jon 2010-06-06T22:04:00Z Didn't they know about the apocalyptic ambitions of Shia Iran? Russell Brand rules Question Time's clash of the egos 2013-06-21T00:13:16Z Yet no one seems to fully agree on why reading books or watching movies about apocalyptic pandemics feels appealing during a real crisis with an actual contagious disease. Apocalyptic fiction helps us deal with the anxiety of the coronavirus pandemic 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z One attempt to get the book greenlighted as a miniseries at TNT got caught in post-9/11 concerns about the novel's apocalyptic setting, according to Ruddy, who worked on it. 'Atlas Shrugged' finally comes to the screen 2011-04-10T05:00:00Z Starting with the spooky first scene, lit only by flashlight, “Bones in Whispers” gradually fills us in on its apocalyptic back story. One play’s weirdness has meaning; the other just seems to be fooling around 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z It’s a feature of apocalyptic living: There’s no right way to be. In ‘The Octopus Museum,’ Brenda Shaughnessy Sees a Cephalopod Future 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z The most incredible thing about these apocalyptic pieces is the end result: from the bang and the wreckage she creates a shimmering beauty. Cornelia Parker: A history of violence 2010-05-25T20:31:00Z That apocalyptic image hangs over each of the three surprisingly disparate parts of this novel. Book review: ‘High as the Horses’ Bridles,’ by Scott Cheshire I used to make the joke that on the first two records the 1975 was like the apocalyptic sense of being a teenager in a major key. The 1975’s Matty Healy Is Still Trying to Be Funny, Sincerely 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z Lead actor Thomas Dekker describes it thusly: "It's a sex movie, it's an apocalyptic movie, it's a rock 'n' roll movie, and yet it's also an art film." Looking ahead at the local art house scene 2010-12-31T06:00:00Z On Saturday, Drake kept acolytes churning up the mud with apocalyptic graphics, and a cameo by Nicki Minaj on Make Me Proud, but his beefy MCing left you wondering what all the fuss was about. Wireless festival – review 2012-07-09T17:48:30Z Delacroix's painting The Death Of Sardanapalus portrays a tyrant killing himself on a vast pink bed surrounded by his harem and slaves in a frenzied apocalyptic party. Mat Collishaw: still sensational 2013-04-26T15:30:00Z The focus is on finding the evil mutant Farouk, a.k.a., the Shadow King, a search that takes on apocalyptic dimensions. Review: ‘Legion’ Resumes. Hold On to Your Brain. 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z One really satisfying one that we've wanted to do for a while that we finally get to do is George Miller, Mad Max, post apocalyptic, diesel-fueled dystopia, nuclear wasteland kind of genre. Dan Harmon on the Future of Rick and Morty and That Community Movie 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z Exhausted from superhero adventures and apocalyptic dramas, consumers stay away in droves, skipping the new offerings and wanly patronizing the very few holdover films that have earned cheery word-of-mouth. August Burnout: The Butler Stands While Three New Films Fall 2013-08-25T18:30:45Z As they wade waist deep through an apocalyptic landscape, you feel them forming their own fierce little unit, one where all bets are off. The Impossible: Naomi Watts Keeps This Disaster Film Afloat 2012-12-20T10:45:08Z Such was the case with the 2012 world premiere of Anne Washburn’s “Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play,” a stunning apocalyptic vaudeville inspired by “The Simpsons” that baffled as many theatergoers as it enchanted. He built a ragtag theater into an American trendsetter. Now Woolly Mammoth’s founder is retiring. 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z Samantha must decide whether to cling to Curtis or flee from him as he goes through a breakdown and suffers from disturbing, apocalyptic visions -- which may just have some basis in reality. Jessica Chastain: The dazzling redhead who's suddenly everywhere 2011-09-27T21:28:00Z His vision of a threatening apocalyptic beast leads the three increasingly deranged individuals outside the lighthouse, where their fate awaits. The Lighthouse – review 2012-10-12T17:10:14Z In CBS’s summertime suspense drama “Salvation,” the Pentagon is trying to keep a lid on the apocalyptic news that a deadly asteroid is on course to collide with Earth in 186 days. Review | CBS’s ‘Salvation’ is about an asteroid headed for Earth. ‘Hurry up,’ Earth replies. 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z Even her most apocalyptic pronouncements – she calls the human race a “cancer on the Earth” – are delivered in polite tones not dissimilar to the received pronunciation English she speaks in the Tudor-era US soapie Reign. The many layers of Caitlin Stasey: 'A lot of people think I'm a really angry person' 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z For the majority of Russell T Davies’s apocalyptic drama, Viv Rook was a figure on TV; her slow and insidious rise to populist power playing out in tandem to the real action. From Bran Stark to Boris Johnson: TV heroes and villains of 2019 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z Then there’s the ever-mutating language, which finds a natural poetry in everyday speech, which in turn grows and warps into Swiftian accounts of an apocalyptic future. Review: In ‘Escaped Alone’ Fears Small (Cats) and Large (Apocalypse) 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z Resembling an apocalyptic biker gang with a bad case of ringworm, the Mogs are hunting down their prey in numeric order. | 'I Am Number Four': Tales of Teenage Aliens 2011-02-18T00:01:18Z Internet doomsday, explained The apocalyptic story line was once reserved for truly apocalyptic events. Internet doomsday, explained 2012-05-16T11:45:00Z But as it sprints and staggers toward an apocalyptic conclusion, it doesn’t sustain the scrutiny it’s now bound to invite. Theater Review: Lyle Kessler’s ‘Collision’ at Rattlestick Theater 2013-01-23T23:19:08Z Under James Levine she sang the other heroine of that opera, Brünnhilde, whose marathon begins in Act II and carries through to the cycle’s apocalyptic finale in “Götterdämmerung.” Music: Katarina Dalayman in ?G?tterd?mmerung? at the Met 2012-01-22T02:23:06Z One of the enduring paradoxes of great apocalyptic writing is that it consoles even as it alarms. ArtsBeat: The Poetry of Catastrophe 2011-03-18T19:09:01Z Our apocalyptically minded narrator is clearly headed there himself. New French Fiction: With an Emphasis on Food, Film and Frolics 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z It helped to eliminate the fussy layers of finely drawn architectural elevations, planning grids and weather maps that cramped her large canvases’ style, scale and apocalyptic mood, and to work more loosely by hand. 4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z The backstory of "Stray" is an intense, apocalyptic one and there is that ending which has drawn conflicted reactions. The video game "Stray" taps into why we fancy being a cat 2022-08-06T04:00:00Z Director Dean Devlin, who produced Independence Day with Emmerich, seems keen to outdo his old partner in terms of on-screen mass obliteration, with cities such as Dubai, Tokyo and Moscow in his apocalyptic sights. Is climate change Hollywood's new supervillain? 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z As the show broadened geographically it did the same tonally, newly injected with a kind of mordant humor as its characters began to give in to rather than resist its grand, apocalyptic currents. How The Leftovers became the most ambitious show of the decade 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z However, a similar sentiment is less melodramatically, more poetically embodied in Hodges' straightforward drawing in ballpoint ink of a bucolic landscape beneath an apocalyptic sky. Loss permeates Jim Hodges' art; prepare for heartbreak 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z While his fiancée plans their wedding, Warren interviews experts on conspiracy theories, apocalyptic speculation, the Illuminati and assorted psychotropic pharmaceuticals and, big surprise, becomes ever more paranoid and hallucinatory. ‘Don Peyote,’ Perpetuating the Stoner Comedy 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z Its casually apocalyptic title also suggests purpose, linking that end to another one: the desire to be done with the idea that art is a coldly speculative endeavor defined by professionals — financial and otherwise. 'And There Is an End' -- but no end to its goofy appeal 2015-03-21T04:00:00Z Then he added: “In an April that may be apocalyptically cruel, that is how we are poised, desiring spring.” Bach in My Heart, and My Heart in His Hands 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z Millet begins spinning the story of Noah’s Ark through a modern-day tale of climate change to produce a shattering vision of our apocalyptic future. Review | Lydia Millet’s ‘A Children’s Bible’ is a blistering classic 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z While this cycle does include a time of civic and political crisis — a Fourth Turning, in our parlance — the reporting on the book has been absurdly apocalyptic. Where did Steve Bannon get his worldview? From my book. 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z Brown uses testimony from an official inquiry and her own interviews with survivors to recreate the sealers’ apocalyptic suffering, and calls out a feudal version of capitalism that makes Charles Dickens’s London seem quaint. Read Your Way Through Newfoundland 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z The apocalyptic resonance of this image, which invokes the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, hovers like an omen. ‘Weathering With You’ Review: Letting the Sun Shine In 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z Bolton echoed Global Zero's fear of apocalyptic terrorism but said this merely bolstered the classic nuclear postures. From bomb silo to big screen, an anti-nuclear quest 2011-06-17T06:56:07Z What ensues is a brisk, well-mounted children’s fantasy, with Cornish giving the story an entertainingly apocalyptic spin. ‘The Kid Who Would Be King’ Review: Cult Director Waxes Arthurian 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z To unify the album and its many collaborators, he tried to imagine an apocalyptic event — the election of Donald J. Trump — and the possible reactions to it. Damon Albarn of Gorillaz on How a Dark Fantasy Became Reality on ‘Humanz’ 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z This show also evokes a pre-“Hunger Games” era when fantasies about teenage revenge could be smaller and didn’t have to involve apocalyptic maneuvers. Theater Review: ‘Heathers: The Musical’ Brings Back Guilt-Free Mayhem 2014-04-01T13:23:48Z It isn’t as ridiculous as “Sausage Party” and lacks the dark, uneasy energy of the apocalyptic “This Is the End,” but it’s passably diverting. Review: The Kids Are All Right in ‘Blockers.’ The Parents Are Dopes. 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z This movie is operatic, crepuscular, portentous, a vision of apocalyptic catastrophe – and there are some great things in it. The Dark Knight Rises – review 2012-07-19T14:29:00Z Working in different centuries and media, they share an apocalyptic vision of the hunt as the quintessential metaphor for America. New French Fiction: With an Emphasis on Food, Film and Frolics 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z Miller wants none of the usual howling and apocalyptic thunder in King Lear's famous storm scene. King Lear gets a Yorkshire accent 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z I’m referring to the months following the presidential election on Nov. 8, 2016, when, for Donald Trump’s detractors, the state of the nation felt a note short of apocalyptic. Hermione Hoby Takes on Virtue-Signaling 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z Given all the apocalyptic footage issuing from Hawaii’s Big Island earlier this year, the scene seems to confirm the worst — except that much of this lava hardened hundreds, if not thousands, of years ago. 36 Hours in Kailua-Kona 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z However, as the new documentary Spaceship Earth shows, the escapade is a cautionary tale, now that the outside world – Biosphere 1, if you prefer – is itself coming to resemble an apocalyptic sci-fi world. Eight go mad in Arizona: how a lockdown experiment went horribly wrong 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z In stage directions that follow Beale’s speech, Chayefsky was already conjuring the same apocalyptic power that Finch later summoned in his indelible performance. Arts & Leisure: Notes of a Screenwriter, Mad as Hell 2011-05-19T15:34:47Z Without those apocalyptic images and fears to motivate us, a sense of the urgent action needed to avert such a slowly emerging global catastrophe lessens. America’s psychic numbing: Why we’re so obsessed with “apocalypse” 2014-02-26T13:30:00Z Rebecca Carroll wrote for Dame in 2015 about what she calls Dolezal’s “apocalyptic, White privilege on steroids” with a palpable anger shared by many people of color. Stealth sisterhood: I look white, but I’m also black. And I don’t hate Rachel Dolezal 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z Zombie killers are just like us, except they smash the brains of the undead in the hopes of surviving one more day in an apocalyptic universe. ‘Guts’ is the ultimate fan guide to ‘The Walking Dead’ 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z And this in the face of all sorts of topical horrors, since even children have their apocalyptic fears these days. Review: ‘SpongeBob SquarePants,’ a Watery Wonderland on Broadway 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z Even in Michael Bay movies, where the price of failing is usually an apocalyptic scenario, characters are able to keep things light with a few quippy one-liners. Michael Bay life lessons: Stress management 2011-07-13T19:14:00Z “If there’s some apocalyptic scenario, you want to be with a Seth Goldstein,” adds Rebecca Hoffberger, director of the American Visionary Art Museum. A retired engineer’s latest sculpture is a bicycle, back-scratcher and cookie dispenser — all in one 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z But then, Mr. McCarthy is a bard of the apocalyptic who, in his unsparing period novel “Blood Meridian” writes that “war is the truest form of divination.” An On Screen Adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s ‘Child of God’ 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z Each pattern in the book had its own vivid apocalyptic scenario. Knitting for the Apocalypse 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z The warning signs of the “sweet hurricane” that provides the novel’s apocalyptic finale are sensed by the “indigent” who make up Popisho’s outcast lower class: “The earth vex . . . the soil stank of ancient warning.” Review | ‘Popisho’ imagines a magical realm teeming with memorable characters 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z We’ve found catharsis in apocalyptic science fiction and comfort in romance; advice in self-help guides and a moment of peace, thanks to children’s activity books. What the country is reading during the pandemic: Dystopias, social justice and steamy romance 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z The diamond seems to be a literal interpretation of the film’s apocalyptic denouement: two great stones collide to become a single form. Lars Von Trier Wants to Turn All His Movies Into Diamonds 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z Jack and Hannibal may be comfortable with their roles in this apocalyptic battle of the wills, but the fallout is proving to be extensive. 'Hannibal' Recap: Do You See? 2015-08-23T04:00:00Z They were sitting outside their school in a West Village park looking classically disengaged — with pierced noses, tattoos, raggedy clothes and hair that was chopped and shredded for maximum apocalyptic effect. What is Paul Rudnick Doing Writing Young Adult Fiction? 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z To save Vanessa from becoming a demon’s consort with apocalyptic consequences, Malcolm shoots Mina without hesitation. 'Penny Dreadful' recap: Rescuers search for Mina at Grand Guignol 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z Several songs reference the personal and emotional ramifications of political strife, while "Famous Last Words" uses apocalyptic imagery as a backdrop for praising the importance of personal connection. From the Beatles influence to personal strife, revisiting Tears for Fears' complex "Seeds of Love" 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z “Dark Side,” a documentary about the inevitable catastrophe that will be caused by a coronal mass ejection — huge solar winds — isn’t, strictly speaking, apocalyptic. Review: ‘The Dark Side of the Sun,’ and, by the Way, We’re Doomed 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z After the successes of The Rats and The Fog, Herbert moved away from the apocalyptic science-based terror of his early work towards more traditional supernatural horror. James Herbert: Master of British horror fiction 2013-03-20T19:55:00Z Every time the buzzy apocalyptic drama comes up in conversation, someone asks: “But what is it about?” The Leftovers season finale: how much more gloom and grief can we take? 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z After hours of white-knuckle hairpin turns, I arrived at the vertiginous Château de Peyrepertuse at the same time as an apocalyptic thunderstorm. Languedoc, France: Brutal History and Beautiful Setting 2010-05-07T18:37:00Z “Black Sun With Falling Corona,” one of photographer Jacqueline Woods “Black Sun” pictures, evokes a mystical, apocalyptic reversed sun with a burning light encircling it against deep space. Solar eclipse: Artists turn to science in rendering the emotion of past eclipses 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z It’s not as though the Queens-based artist just up and started thinking along such apocalyptic lines. To Get This Artist’s Message, You Have to Look Really Closely 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z But amid the demolished boardwalks and toppled buildings, including the apocalyptic vision that is oceanfront Belmar, it’s also a shock to see how much is still standing. The Jersey Shore, a Month After Hurricane Sandy 2012-12-13T22:55:52Z Martha and Ash are driving to the country in the kind of apocalyptic black rain we've had a lot of recently. TV review: Black Mirror; Penguins - Spy in the Huddle 2013-02-11T23:05:01Z The choral voices, returning here and there, are the only ray of hope: the Body’s own singing amounts to weedy, apocalyptic howls, barely clearing the din of their processional stomps. Playlist: CDs From Guillermo Klein, Kris Davis and the Body 2010-08-08T00:47:00Z As global warming cooks the Earth, it melts our brains, fries our nerves and explodes the narratives that we like to tell about humankind — even the apocalyptic ones. Apocalypse When? Global Warming’s Endless Scroll 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z But, in 1976, on his album “Turnstiles,” Joel the Prophet imagined the apocalyptic fate of New York City in the year 2017. Billy Joel Parking Lot 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z He wants to master the shotgun only to pick off wild apocalyptic marauders who may someday come after his stuff. First-time hunter vs. turkey: Thanksgiving dinner is on the line. 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z Two-time winner Denzel Washington opted for the apocalyptic "The Book of Eli," which ran into decidedly mixed reviews, and the upcoming action movie "Unstoppable." Black actors face snub at Oscars 2010-10-01T07:41:00Z The title, of course, references both the watering hole at the end of the pub crawl and the potentially apocalyptic situation in which our heroes find themselves. The World's End trailer: last orders for mankind? 2013-05-08T14:59:00Z Over the past millions of years, mankind has survived one apocalyptic disaster after another. Cures for a patriarchal hangover on “Y: The Last Man” 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z Even so the disjunction between the text – a hymn of praise – and the apocalyptic trajectory of much of the music is profound. Prom 4: Gothic Symphony ? review 2011-07-18T09:55:53Z But with apocalyptic action films attempting to address the imbalance, it’s reassuring that even when the world is ending, gender equality is at the top of the agenda. Why disaster movies are leading the way for age-appropriate relationships 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z That freewheeling Friday evening became an apocalyptic night of fear and blood. Spring in Paris, My Adopted City, After the Siege 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z Punishment is apocalyptic; punishment is proof that there does exist a cosmic force that will wrench your free will into submission. “Breaking Bad’s” hell on earth 2012-07-15T14:30:00Z The land is forever changed, and a good part of Episode 7 finds some characters walking shell-shocked through an apocalyptic landscape: red skies as in a dust storm, falling ash as if from a wildfire. "The Rings of Power" are here to fight climate change 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z Has our reality since 9/11 felt apocalyptic? Lie to Me: Fiction in the Post-Truth Era 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z Napier overuses some words, notably “apocalypse” and “apocalyptic,” which seem to appear on nearly every page, sometimes more than once. Review | What ties the magical worlds of Hayao Miyazaki’s movies together? 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z Maudslay's own black-and-white photographs show Mayan temples, pyramids and sculpture before the arrival of modern tourism with its cultural detritus of bizarre apocalyptic notions. Mayan art: waiting for the end of the world 2012-12-20T13:26:00Z Night or day, the swampland looks apocalyptic, like the scene of the end of the world. Commission us: Sex, death and long grass in Kaneto Shindo's Onibaba 2010-10-15T09:19:00Z Overlying it all is the irony at the core of so many apocalyptic fictions: that self-destruction is an immutable part of the human condition. A Science-Fiction Classic Still Smolders 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z Considered in this light, is there anything capable of surviving the apocalyptic wreckage of a world? In ‘Zo,’ Love Must Overcome Class Difference and Disaster 2020-08-11T04:00:00Z Did Britain seriously consider threatening Argentina with submarine-launched nuclear missiles, as has sometimes been alleged, if less apocalyptic tactics failed? Secrets of the Conqueror by Stuart Prebble – review 2012-10-12T07:00:02Z Like others, she had believed an apocalyptic reckoning was at hand, though they themselves created it. Perspective | The grand finale of the Trump show: America watches farce devolve to horror 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z “Fear the Walking Dead” is not the first apocalyptic story to turn the tables on the power discrepancy between the United States and her southern neighbors. ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Season 2, Episode 4: Thomas Abigail 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z The violence reaches near apocalyptic levels, but Winslow never flinches, although the reader may. Review | Don Winslow’s ‘The Border’ offers a harrowing look at the war on drugs 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z From the coldly seething anger to the apocalyptic references, Henry’s takedown of the Republican presidential candidate and its possibly cataclysmic consequences could come straight from the script of Atlanta. Atlanta star Brian Tyree Henry: if Trump gets elected 'it's going to be Mad Max' 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z Striking a similarly apocalyptic tone, Mr. Noah said in a statement, “It’s really exciting to renew this contract for either five more years or until Kim Jong-un annihilates us all — whichever one comes first.” Trevor Noah Extends Comedy Central Contract Through 2022 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z His biggest interpretive statement was in bridging the two works, which wouldn’t appear to share much beyond different scales of apocalyptic events. Review: Two Operas Conjure Apocalypses Personal and Cosmic 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z Manson was influenced by a number of pop music bands, including the Beatles, whose song "Helter Skelter" provided him with his apocalyptic vision of the universe. Charles Manson musical opens in Hamburg, Germany 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z “Before the Civil War was fought or remembered,” he writes, “it was imagined by thousands of Americans who peered at the horizon through an apocalyptic atmosphere.” ‘Looming Civil War’ Review: Anticipating the Apocalypse 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z There is a distinctly apocalyptic feel to this convention. Riven by factionalism, the Republican party looks hell-bent on self-destruction 2012-08-28T19:08:50Z It’s reassuring to watch a movie where the stakes are apocalyptic at all times. Comfort Viewing: 3 Reasons I Love ‘Terminator 2: Judgment Day’ 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z This was not the apocalyptic world of “Bird Box”; no blindfold required. Danielle Macdonald of ‘Bird Box’ Tries Her Hand at Graffiti 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z His poems, written in “hyper-regular iambic meter,” investigate “the apocalyptic suffering created by a market economy.” Sex and Faith Overheat in Jamie Quatro’s ‘Fire Sermon’ 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z An apocalyptic romp, it stars Tom Hiddleston as a doctor who moves into a luxurious high-rise in which the wealthy occupy the upper floors while the less-moneyed live on the lower levels. Toronto Film Festival: Separating Contenders From Pretenders 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z What follows is a deeper, more apocalyptic story that reaches far beyond the couple’s decision. ArtsBeat: Big Cash and a Few ‘Cheap Thrills’ 2014-03-26T21:14:14Z One picture invokes an apocalyptic sunset, one a wave of lyrically sensuous dunes. Chuck Kelton's lush landscapes, crafted in the darkroom 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z At a movie like “Snowpiercer,” which imagines a train speeding across a frozen, apocalyptic landscape as a microcosm of global inequality? Is Our Art Equal to the Challenges of Our Times? 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z In the apocalyptic landscape below, a survivor named Rachel is a virtual prisoner in a former W Hotel in Minneapolis. Review | Most novelists avoid all mentions of Donald Trump. Mark Doten went the other direction. 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z This sensational and apocalyptic drama, based on the western thriller by Cormac McCarthy, is still the Coens’ masterpiece: a noirish nightmare that takes place under a vast Texan sky, leavened with brilliant wisecracks. The Coen brothers’ films – ranked! 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z The footage shows the inferno of California’s wildfire season, and more than any image that follows, this opening presents a stark view of the apocalyptic effects of global climate change. ‘To the End’ Review: Seeing Red While Left on Read 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z Several of the magazine’s contributors participated in those protests, and their work distills the apocalyptic, war-zone mood of the day. Art in Review: ?Graphic Radicals?: ?30 Years of World War 3 Illustrated? 2011-01-13T22:00:04Z A borderline apocalyptic scene awaits when you enter Spreepark, Berlin’s only theme park, in the Treptow-Köpenick district in the former East Berlin. In Transit: Festival Brings Dormant Berlin Park to Life 2011-05-19T10:00:29Z Alongside his more apocalyptic visions, Baldwin harbored a wary utopian presentiment that Buckley believed ignored man’s true nature and endangered America’s delicate hierarchies. When James Baldwin Squared Off Against William F. Buckley Jr. 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z She stayed awake late into the night and finished the poem, adding verses about the apocalyptic scene that unfolded at the Capitol that day: Amanda Gorman Captures the Moment, in Verse 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z Museums such as MoMA and the Metropolitan in New York secured fine selections of Picasso's best works before the prices came near today's apocalyptic extreme. Locking our Picasso away 2010-05-06T21:00:00Z In the apocalyptic comedy “How It Ends,” the Earth faces destruction by meteor at the end of the night. ‘How It Ends’ Review: What, You Expected Us to Tell You? 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z It’s quite a striking mix, particularly on the urgent, apocalyptic track “Rising Water,” with its throbbing bass and chorus washes. James Vincent McMorrow upends the folk-singer image 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z This particular year though, just before we arrived, there had been two weeks of apocalyptic rain. Guardian readers on their worst holidays: rats, sewage and lots of vomiting 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z That powerful apocalyptic tale takes place about 50 years in the future. Review | ‘What Strange Paradise’ is a visceral account of a refugee’s desperation 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z This, he admits, is not the approach he took to his previous film, the eerie apocalyptic thriller Take Shelter. Mud director Jeff Nichols: 'Mark twain bottled what it felt to be a child' 2013-05-02T17:37:37Z And while I don’t doubt either the anxiety or the use of cleaning as therapy, when I read about her I can’t help but hear again the beat of apocalyptic drums. Are cleaning gurus sweeping an epidemic under the carpet? 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z Cults, vampires, apocalyptic scenarios, grown men in dog suits – whatever it takes to win eyeballs. “The Leftovers” reveals the limits of concept-driven TV 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z One of Nguyen’s first major solo works appeared in the 2017 Whitney Biennial: “The Island,” an apocalyptic video set in the speck of Malaysia his family had landed on when he was two. Making Art Out of Bombshells and Memories in Vietnam 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z Even a more equitable system would have to deal with inequality, not least in a world facing apocalyptic climate change. ‘People are finally talking about class’: Astra Taylor on US democracy, socialism and revolution 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z His variations on “It’s a Small World” devolve into charmless, even hostile dances; “Let It Go” is almost apocalyptic. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z In Bird Box, Bier portrays raw human emotion in an epic, apocalyptic story about a mysterious force or virus that is driving people to suicide. Hollywood must drop fixation wih beauty, says Night Manager director 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z Called Heaven and Hell, the show, which hits Sheffield in June and London in September, features wildly imaginative depictions of apocalyptic destruction and catastrophe. This week's arts diary 2011-03-08T22:30:00Z Showing as night fell on Paris, this haute couture collection brought a somber elegance that recalled the more apocalyptic Chanel ready-to-wear. Special Report: Fashion: Chanel: The Art of the Dark 2011-07-06T14:29:17Z The major problem the festival itself has been wrestling with may appear less apocalyptic in comparison. Movies: Venice Film Festival Goes Back to the Future 2011-08-30T11:00:08Z Certainly, Nordenholt’s methods can be revolting, though he justifies them as rational and appropriate to an apocalyptic emergency. Review | The 1923 novel ‘Nordenholt’s Million’ explores issues unnervingly familiar in the Trump-covid era 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z Rich Larson's book "Annex" is the coming-of-age story of a transgender girl named Violet, who's able to escape social expectations and live as her true self following an apocalyptic alien invasion. Lady Loki and the opportunity for trans representation in Marvel 2021-06-19T04:00:00Z Siouxsie and the Banshees’ apocalyptic anthem “Cities in Dust” plays in its opening minutes, and the film ends with a screen-filling brawl between male and female true believers. Five Horror Movies to Stream Now 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z Thankfully Masters of the Sun and its incredible video – a kaleidoscope of apocalyptic cartoons and real footage – offers more than enough to be enjoyed outside of this "who are they" business. New music: KOTA – Masters of the Sun 2013-01-10T09:39:00Z When the words are done, the song shifts into a six-beat furor that feels both tribal and apocalyptic. Selena Gomez’s Boldly Revealing Ballad, and 9 More New Songs 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z The reboot of George Miller’s apocalyptic road warrior franchise, “Mad Max: Fury Road,” is a feature-length car chase. “Mad Max: Fury Road”: Where feminist revenge fantasy meets old school redemption quest 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z Except that he is having terrifying visions of a coming apocalyptic storm. Scarecrow Video recommendations for "Take Shelter" 2011-10-20T13:08:01Z Yet when they watched the Batman film, they inevitably thought of the connections between Christopher Nolan’s apocalyptic fantasy and a remorseless sicko who slaughtered real people. Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn and Jonah Hill in The Watch: Unwatchable 2012-07-26T12:00:02Z The collection was lean, tough, in places morbid, and rejected practically everything happening elsewhere during Fashion Week — color, silhouette, decorum — in favor of a signature emaciated apocalyptic mood, Kevlar toughness at caviar prices. The New Shapes of Men’s Wear at New York Fashion Week 2014-02-13T00:49:46Z “No one was interested in an apocalyptic comedy.” ‘Good Omens’ Unites an Angel and a Demon for Judgment Day 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z Sometimes, as we lay in bed in the increasingly chilly nights, we role-played our apocalyptic fantasies of what life would be like in a second Bush administration. I f*cked a Republican on Thanksgiving 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z Modest proposals to reform Medicare are described in apocalyptic terms, by both parties. Why Patients in Greek State-Owned Hospitals Can't Obtain Cancer Treatments 2011-09-17T14:38:45Z For all the play's apocalyptic plausibility, however, it is hard for an audience not rooted in South American history to become politically engaged with a war that has not yet happened. Diciembre 2010-09-05T16:28:00Z On Saturday, Dunst was named best actress by the National Society of Film Critics and her apocalyptic psychological drama "Melancholia" was named the best film of 2011. French stalker of Kirsten Dunst ordered to stay away 2012-01-09T20:51:35Z You would think after a few years of surviving a post apocalyptic world these characters would have come to terms with what they are willing to do to stay alive. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 8, Episode 3: Cut to Black 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z In Carmen Maria Machado’s debut short story collection, “Her Body and Other Parties,” women evaporate, are haunted after gastric surgery, literally lose their heads and chart an apocalyptic pandemic through their sexual encounters. Carmen Maria Machado's 'Her Body and Other Parties' reclaims the female body in subversive, joyful ways 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z I think in those days it'll be very hard for us to go back and actually remember what that headspace was like when the pandemic started, of how sort of doomsday and apocalyptic everything felt. What would today's fairy tale look like if you could "un-Disney-fy people's brains"? 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z “Zoo” isn’t as scary or as exciting as either of those, but it has a more sedate charm of its own — an apocalyptic horror movie that is not too horrifying to look at. Review: ‘Zoo’ Is a James Patterson Novel Brought to TV 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z Placed on home study, aware of the rumors circulating about her, Willa falls prey to apocalyptic visions of strange creatures and wakes to find mysterious messages scrawled on her arm. Rene Steinke's 'Friendswood' visits a town toxic in many ways 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z He's a kind of guide through an 85-minute discussion that touches on string theory, apocalyptic prophecies, cultural shifts and the long-term impact of 1960s protest movements. '2012: Time for Change': Documentary explores New Age theories 2010-06-03T20:10:00Z It also provides tax breaks for a company whose blockbuster hit this year was the gory video game "Dead Space 2," which challenges players to advance through an apocalyptic battlefield by killing space zombies. Tax breaks bolster video-game makers 2011-09-11T01:31:03Z There seems to be an apocalyptic tone to this album. ArtsBeat Blog: Q. and A.: Tom Morello Offers 'a Record of Rousing Hopelessness' 2011-10-19T01:16:00Z A description that denies Weinstein’s responsibility so apocalyptically, he is reduced to both symptom and inanimate object. Harvey Weinstein appears to think that his time is not up | chitra ramaswamy 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z Vieth's sepia photographs of looming pylons, a wave-swamped cityscape and a trio of Christ figures placed against an industrial backdrop have an eerie, apocalyptic air to them. Review: Seattle exhibits show photographs in their altered states 2010-08-26T20:51:00Z And Eotvos’s setting of it, the kind of blood-freezing, apocalyptic chiming of it, the warmth of parts of it, I found electrifying. Don’t Talk Too Much: Tony Kushner on an Operatic ‘Angels in America’ 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z It was funny, for sure, but its apocalyptic high jinks couldn’t quite disguise its conceptual exhaustion. ‘The Interview,’ With James Franco and Seth Rogen, Is Back On 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z The do-it-yourself quality is more compelling than the narrative, and the filmmakers’ anarchic creativity makes their apocalyptic setting feel surprisingly joyful. ‘Flaming Ears’ Review: A Madcap Paradise Restored 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z A National Book Award finalist, this blistering classic spins the story of Noah’s Ark through a witty, modern-day tale of climate change, producing a shattering vision of an apocalyptic future. 50 notable works of fiction in 2020 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z "Mad Max: Fury Road" was more of a critical darling, with the update of the apocalyptic George Miller franchise earning a stunning 98% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a B+ audience grade from CinemaScore. Box office: 'Pitch Perfect 2' crescendos past 'Mad Max: Fury Road' to $70.3 million 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z Published in 2006, this is the apotheosis of apocalyptic fiction, rightly appearing near the top of every list. Anthony Horowitz's top apocalypse books 2012-10-04T10:49:38Z Despite the fact that his movies featured stars like Ida Lupino and Orson Welles, and despite the eye-catching apocalyptic titles and lurid posters, he generated many flops, a few minor hits and largely negative reviews. Bert I. Gordon, Auteur of Mutant Monster Movies, Dies at 100 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z Dead-end job, no health care, apocalyptic faith, broken family. Nine Inch Nails: a human scream in Reagan’s postindustrial America 2018-07-07T04:00:00Z Follett has always been an accomplished storyteller, but his latest reflects a sense of urgency that lifts it well above typical apocalyptic thrillers. Review | Ken Follett’s latest epic is a cautionary tale of global catastrophe 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z The two form an instant connection, despite John’s apocalyptic religious views and his apparently blood-spattered shirt. ‘Something in the Dirt’ Review: The Truth Is Over There, by the Sofa 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z In a speech to a business group in 2001, James called the Falun Gong spiritual movement in China a “dangerous” and “apocalyptic cult” and criticized Western media coverage of the Asian nation. Rupert Murdoch’s handing the Fox reins to sons, but he’s not going away 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z For science fiction, try “Moon of the Crusted Snow” by Waubgeshig Rice, the tale of an Anishinaabe community facing an apocalyptic disaster and the outsiders who intrude and endanger the isolated enclave. Review | The perfect science fiction, fantasy and genre-bending tales for the chilly days ahead 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z He wants to shake them up and leave them thinking about his genre-defying, surreal apocalyptic thriller. Darren Aronofsky on 'mother!' : 'We want to shake audiences' 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z Forty years later, when an older Karamakate returns, the scene is apocalyptic. ‘Embrace of the Serpent,’ Ciro Guerra’s Searching Tale About Invaded Amazon Cultures 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z But it was undeniably drag: weird and apocalyptic, drag as seen through a cracked mirror. Beyond the Drag Event Horizon 2017-12-02T05:00:00Z Calvin Klein’s chief creative director Raf Simons said he paid tribute to America with apocalyptic fashion meant to express freedom. A Valentine to New York as designers kiss Fashion Week goodbye 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z Blackened trees lend the landscape an apocalyptic feel as skunks feed on armadillo carcasses and deer forage for the first buds of regeneration. Sundance film festival 2013: Prince Avalanche – first look review 2013-01-24T16:55:49Z Bubonic plague further contributed to a zeitgeist of apocalyptic doom. Review | How scientists came to be 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z With so many constantly crying apocalyptic wolf or selling apocalyptic thrills, it’s much harder now to distinguish between genuine threats of extinction and the cheap imitations. America’s psychic numbing: Why we’re so obsessed with “apocalypse” 2014-02-26T13:30:00Z This vista was horrible, of course, apocalyptic, something from “The Walking Dead.” Watching ‘Our Planet,’ Where the Predator Is Us 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z Ms. Klausner also writes for the addictive Fuse game show “Billy on the Street,” which shares one of her main strategies: treating the trivial with apocalyptic gravity. Critic’s Notebook: Julie Klausner’s Podcast, ‘How Was Your Week?’ 2012-12-31T23:26:34Z "I got the album 'Ziggy Stardust' that weekend, and from the opening drumbeats of 'Five Years,' the sense of ominousness, danger, the apocalyptic nature … that was it for me." 'Moon' and 'Fountain' composer Clint Mansell will perform soundtrack pieces at Theatre at Ace Hotel 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z Instead of expounding a tedious origin story or staging an epic battle for apocalyptic stakes, “The Wolverine” focuses on a specific and self-contained adventure in a richly imagined place. Movie Review: In ‘The Wolverine,’ Hugh Jackman Broods Again 2013-07-25T21:12:49Z Morrison says it is partly older readers looking for more mature story lines, partly the darker movies in cinemas and partly the profusion of apocalyptic videogames. Comic book writer bows out from Batman after killing off Robin 2013-07-09T12:52:39Z As the group makes its way toward an apocalyptic climax, old wounds are reopened, lost loves are reunited, an alien invasion is uncovered, and many, many pints are consumed. | Edgar Wright on the Autobiographical Inspirations Behind His Boozy Film 2013-08-22T21:05:22Z The occasional out-pops-a-homicidal-maniac jolts are too well telegraphed to be very scary, and the denouement manages to be both apocalyptic and anticlimactic. Movie Review | 'The Crazies': A Horror Show 2010-02-26T00:21:00Z It was a dramatic and apocalyptic scene and as I shot the images I felt the horror of this war as never before during my time in Syria. The Syrian conflict: a war photographer's story 2012-12-14T10:30:00Z The truth is, now that we’re in the midst of an apocalyptic news cycle, the only opinion I find I’m interested in is history’s. I Quit Giving a Damn 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z Stage 7 also passes Verdun, a pivotal World War I battlefield where an estimated 300,000 French and German troops were killed - most ripped apart by the apocalyptic shelling that permanently disfigured the landscape. Tour de France marks World War I centennial 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z It is the first of many apocalyptic metaphors. A Great Writer at the 1968 Democratic Disaster 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z Though he takes immense glee in an apocalyptic finale that leaves Chicago a ruin, our flag was still there, yet waving o'er the land of the free and the home of the Autobots. 'Transformers: Dark of the Moon:' Plot, 3-D change for the better 2011-06-28T16:59:03Z Medieval Islamic groups that were just as apocalyptic made the same turn in order to survive once they established states. “The Islamic State would not be with us today if the United States hadn’t invaded Iraq”: Islam, religion, and the interview Donald Trump and Ted Cruz must read now 2016-03-19T04:00:00Z Other happy memories of the huge collection of Ladybird books I amassed include an apocalyptic scene of Drake setting fire to Cadiz, and bloodsoaked biographies of Nelson and Napoleon. The violence of Ladybirds | Jonathan Jones 2010-03-31T11:50:00Z Is this apocalyptic sense conveyed in the museum's galleries? The shock, critique, theatricality of '80s art, on view in Fort Worth 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z If this political thread weren’t enough, the film also takes an apocalyptic turn in its concern with the melting of the icecaps and the imminence of planetary catastrophe. Alexander Payne on Downsizing: ‘The film isn’t a major statement – it’s a metaphor’ 2018-01-07T05:00:00Z The apocalyptic comedy depicting the end of the world stars more than a dozen well-known Hollywood actors including James Franco, Jonah Hill, Michael Cera and Emma Watson. Faster than speeding bullet, 'Man of Steel' wins box office race 2013-06-16T16:23:58Z For indeterminate reasons, their home became, sometime in the late nineteenth century, an end station of Western civilization, a proving ground for apocalyptic fantasy. The Timbisha Shoshone of Death Valley and the Shadow of Trump 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z Martin Walker, the playable protagonist, leads a Delta Force unit into an implausibly evacuated Dubai after it has been hit by a series of apocalyptic sandstorms. Video Game Review: Spec Ops: The Line, From 2K Games, Makes Killing Personal 2012-06-25T16:34:27Z Walker’s last novel, the best-selling “Age of Miracles,” featured similarly apocalyptic themes. Review | Dreams are dangerous — and contagious — in Karen Thompson Walker’s apocalyptic thriller 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z Yeltsin, acting on his own instinct and initiative, simply refused to believe it, and an apocalyptic nightmare was averted. The best films for spring 2011 2011-04-05T19:00:01Z Calvin Klein’s chief creative director Raf Simons said he paid tribute to America with apocalyptic fashion meant to express freedom. A Valentine to New York as designers kiss Fashion Week goodbye 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z Damon said films were the best vehicle to help humans empathize with each other, adding that despite its apocalyptic tone, “Downsizing” ultimately is an optimistic movie. Shrunken Matt Damon opens 74th Venice film festival 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z In its tremendous, almost apocalyptic action sequences, “The Dark Knight Rises” suggests a reverse-engineered version of a Soviet-era revolutionary epic, in which the masses are the villains and their onetime overlords the heroes. “The Dark Knight Rises”: Christopher Nolan’s evil masterpiece 2012-07-18T20:50:00Z The key is the wok, an apocalyptic inferno, smoking over a burner that shrieks like a jet engine. At Fan Fried Rice Bar, No Soy Sauce, Just Sublime Fried Rice 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z “When he speaks apocalyptically, he’s talking about the ruination caused by others,” D’Antonio said. How Trump got religion — and why his legendary minister’s son now rejects him 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z It was two years after the Watts uprising, but Didion wasn’t writing about race and reckoning, she was creating a poetically apocalyptic image of the city and, by extension, California. ‘Bring Your Own Brigade’ Review: Some Say the World Will End in Fire 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z The result is an apocalyptic metaphor, rich in religious, environmental and political undertones. Apocalyptic horror 'mother!' was conceived in five days, director says 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z Quickly integrated into a new group of friends, they set off on a journey of betrayal, love, hate, infidelity and extreme violence more devastating and fiery than any of their apocalyptic fantasies. "Bellflower": The "Mad Max" romance game changer? 2011-06-14T21:15:00Z As we live through apocalyptic economic times we’re coming face to face with the realization that no one knows anything. After The Bomb: Don DeLillo Tells Us What to Fear 2011-11-28T17:53:47Z The fact that you can barely hear the chorus, singing full throttle — let alone the strings and winds — evokes the apocalyptic image of sinners being pulled under in a caldron of noise. Loud, Louder, Loudest: How Classical Music Started to Roar 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z Evidently, King did as well, because a few years after writing it he turned the nugget into 700 pages of apocalyptic epic journey narrative. Rereading Stephen King 2012-07-17T11:00:32Z Then it’s back into our current apocalyptic reality. Celeste Ng, Ann Patchett, Min Jin Lee and Others on the Books That Bring Them Comfort 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z Spare and woven through with found materials, the work suggested an apocalyptic scene and a solemn comment on how human beings encounter — and subjugate — the other. An Artist Who Works Alongside Giants 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z The Last Train to Zona Verde is a riveting, chilling read, one that outlines a reality that sometimes seems more like the apocalyptic fiction of writers such as Cormac McCarthy. The Last Train to Zona Verde by Paul Theroux – review 2013-06-01T14:00:01Z The title of this documentary refers not to the apocalyptic scenario of the David Bowie song but rather five crucial years across his career. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Bobby Kennedy for President’ and ‘Vice’ 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z Other parents see it in less apocalyptic terms. Mixed Martial Arts Catches On With the Internet Generation 2012-03-14T21:49:31Z Mr. Davis, responding in part to the confessions’ apocalyptic imagery and accounts of holy visions, focuses on the Christian martyr, prophet and avatar of divine vengeance and historical inevitability. Review: ‘Nat Turner in Jerusalem,’ an Avatar of Divine Vengeance 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z South Asian literature may offer different connotations in cultural terms for personal apocalyptic events as well. Understanding apocalyptic events through literature 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z At that moment, the images that we were seeing on TV and social media were apocalyptic, like the world was coming to an end. Bad Bunny caps week of awards and Grammy-noms with new album 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z With the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico becoming more dread and apocalyptic by the hour, Mr. Merwin may be a poet we’ll need. Books: Hawaii and Nature Are Inspirations for W. S. Merwin 2010-07-01T02:20:00Z Running to 91 stanzas, the poem is a prophetic dream, an apocalyptic vision of Regency Britain and the shaky legitimacy of its ruling class. Anarchy in Peterloo: Shelley's poem unmasked 2013-07-08T17:28:22Z “From the very start I said flat out that there would not be one drop of liquid blood during the destruction,” Mr. Arima said, referring to the apocalyptic prom sequence. Arts & Leisure: ?Carrie,? a Huge Stage Flop, Is Reinvented by MCC Theater 2012-02-02T13:00:00Z They all rush right to the Zone to take apocalyptic photographs. ‘The World Goes On’ — and So Do the Sentences 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z Though he cites Roald Dahl and The Simpsons as his chief influences, he admires Shaun of the Dead for its interplay between the parochial and the apocalyptic. Simon Rich: the funniest man in America? 2013-07-16T19:00:00Z In a first novel full of deceptive simplicity, lyrical language and playful Igbo mythology and humour, he uses the madman’s apocalyptic vision for the family as a way of conjuring up Nigeria’s senseless body politic. Fathers and sons 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z Take your pick among an easygoing western thriller, a crude apocalyptic comedy and a brutal Stephen King adaptation. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Hell or High Water’ and ‘This Is the End’ 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z Even the American Association of University Professors has begun to speak of tenure in apocalyptic terms. The Wal-Mart-ization of higher education: How young professors are getting screwed 2014-02-16T11:59:00Z "Wooden Ships," the tense, apocalyptic song written in the late '60s by Crosby, Stills and Paul Kantner of Jefferson Airplane, closed the show with a powerful jam session. Crosby, Stills and Nash a special treat for boomers 2012-09-15T17:29:04Z In addition to FX's marquee summer project, TNT is rolling out the apocalyptic epic "The Last Ship." No summer vacation for network TV; it has big plans instead 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z We’ll just have to assume that he is playing ironic games with the world, sending up the idea that the Trump candidacy is an apocalyptic event literally foretold in the Book of Revelation. Donald Trump rocks to the left with REM songjacked 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z He’s a painter of uncanny talents, seemingly able to render any figure, shadow or distortion that pops into his feverish, apocalyptic mind. Five must-see art shows in September 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z Her apocalyptic homecoming seems the preordained conclusion to Ash's dark transformation and Constance's anguished memories. Laird Hunt's 'Neverhome' tears a woman and a nation in two 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z Earlier this year, Logan presented a harsh, scrappy near future that looked as exhausted as its ailing hero, a planet teetering towards a more relatable kind of collapse than the apocalyptic threats of superhero cinema. Is climate change Hollywood's new supervillain? 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z Streetlights streak like heavenly bolts; clouds on the horizon take on an apocalyptic glow; the swamp and backwoods seem haunted. True Detective Watch: Seeing Things 2014-01-20T10:30:16Z The main action, which takes place around the Paris peace talks that ended the Vietnam War, is framed by an apocalyptic battle in the distant future. Old and New Cast Join in ‘X-Men: Days of Future Past’ 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z But it’s the least apocalyptic of post-apocalyptic settings, and the science-fiction elements remain in the background while the show delivers an elaborate parable about life under foreign occupation and the moral dimensions of armed insurgency. Review: In ‘Colony,’ on USA, Los Angeles Is Occupied 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z Its dark apocalyptic ambience, its unearthly syntax and diction—plus its central theme, of the dilemma for an artist who must kill his subjects in order to portray them—gave Zal’s journey an aesthetic texture. Inspiration Information: 'The Last Illusion' 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z Nothing since Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road” has shaken me like this — all the more so because it’s based on recorded history, rather than apocalyptic speculation. Review: ‘The Narrow Road in the Deep North,’ by Richard Flanagan Though Macaulay’s New Zealander is mostly forgotten today, the delight in imagining our own world in ruins lingers, in movies that show Washington incinerated by aliens or New York inundated by apocalyptic floods. ‘Filthy Lucre’ and the complicated relationship between artist and buyer 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z Unlike Mr. McDonagh’s play, which applies the faulty human deductive process to events present and recently past, “Escaped Alone” extrapolates an apocalyptic future. For ‘Hangmen’ and ‘Escaped Alone,’ Connecting Threads in London 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z Neither a grim rehashing of the lockdown nor an apocalyptic exaggeration of the virus, her book offers the kind of fresh reflection only time can facilitate, and yet it’s so current the ink feels wet. Review | ‘The Sentence’ is among Louise Erdrich’s most magical novels 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z It posits a future political scenario, but never slips off the rails into apocalyptic fantasy or cheap satire. Review: Crown Jewel: King Charles III in London 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z “Together, they give the sense of an unveiling, culminating in a citywide coming-out party that manages to be at once apocalyptic and bewildering, and even joyous.” 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z When an apocalyptic event wipes out every living creature on the planet with a Y chromosome, he's the only cisgender human male left alive. "Y: The Last Man" presents a fascinating dystopia that probes the artifacts of our gendered world 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z In the turbulent months after the uprisings, when the promises of democracy and greater social freedom remained elusive, some novelists channeled their frustrations and fears into grim apocalyptic tales. Middle Eastern Writers Find Refuge in the Dystopian Novel 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z Mr. Quammen — like the journalist Laurie Garrett in her illuminating and encyclopedic book “The Coming Plague” — shows in these pages that the reality of the virus is horrifying without any apocalyptic embellishment. ‘Ebola,’ a History by David Quammen 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z Although the series has been renewed for a fourth season, that hasn't stopped the creators of this sci-fi puzzle of a show from going all apocalyptic on us for the season finale. Friday TV Picks: Season finale of 'Fringe' on Fox 2011-05-05T19:50:17Z Whatever confrontation is coming — and the show is in no hurry to convey the details — is going to be apocalyptic. TV Review: CW’s ‘The Messengers’ 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z What, after all, were a bunch of naïve teenagers doing in this surreal, existential tragicomedy by the author of “Our Town,” with its mash-up of biblical revisionism, theatrical satire and apocalyptic escapades? Five Broadway Revivals Give a Tour of Our Theatrical Past 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z That left space for his thoughtful rhymes, which grapple with stardom, urban struggles and sometimes apocalyptic visions. Music Review: When the Bass Is Like a Conqueror, Crushing the Guitars and Words 2011-08-14T22:30:28Z He’s produced a decorous and unexpectedly slight show, with the apocalyptic smudges scrubbed away for summer. A Mini-Met-Mashup on the Museum’s Roof, With Summer Views 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z Looking ahead, we’re entering the uncomfortable era when many “futuristic” movies are set – usually of the dystopian, apocalyptic, “you really don’t want it to turn out like this” variety. From Blade Runner to Rollerball: did cinema's sci-fi dystopias predict the future? 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z And don’t forget that in the apocalyptic world that is your post-baby existence, stores and secondhand shops will indeed continue to exist. New parents: don't panic! Here's how to bring baby home on a budget 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z Dramatists, writing in the shadow of the new apocalyptic threat of ecological disaster, aren't simply importing themes — they are forcing us to reconsider our fundamental aesthetic, ethical and metaphysical orientations. The arts become Earth-aware: Dawning age of what are known as eco-arts 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z The highlight of last season, Mr. Gilbert’s first as music director, was the Philharmonic’s presentation of Ligeti’s apocalyptic comic opera “Le Grand Macabre,” also directed by Mr. Fitch. Music Review: An Impish Creature That Won?t Be Fenced In 2011-06-23T22:21:40Z I wasn't even sure whether taking it to a coffee shop and displaying the apocalyptically themed dust jacket would count as a breach of the threatening embargo. Dan Brown's Inferno: a secret I had to hide from all prying eyes 2013-05-13T23:01:05Z Based on a Karen Russell story that in turn owes a debt to the apocalyptic Westerns of Cormac McCarthy, the opera riffs on a detail of American history. Review: An Opera Reaches the American Dream’s Brooding Heart 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z An apocalyptic gloss on “Footloose,” this electro-glam musical zoomed in on gangs of future teenage toughs. 10 More Plays Where the Future Forecast Is Grim 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z The novel concludes with a disjointed 30-page section on apocalyptic forces of nature scouring Texas, but I’d rather end on this focused and hopeful note. A Novel About 3 Generations of Cherokee Women (and No-Good Men) 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z Jolie missed her aunt's funeral to accompany Pitt to London for the premiere of "World War Z", an adaptation of Max Brooks' 2006 apocalyptic novel. Angelina Jolie makes first public appearance after mastectomy 2013-06-02T21:29:03Z The trilogy was conceived around an apocalyptic narrative germ, with characters like the Shaman, Young Ancient, Snake Boy and the animals Shiba and Echoing Owl. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z As Johnny Rotten, he fronted the Sex Pistols and employed his keening circular saw of a voice to deliver some of the most apocalyptic lyrics in the annals of popular music: "Anarchy in the U.K.," John Lydon recalls life as a punk (and beyond) in 'Anger Is an Energy' 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z Foucault made seeing, or, really, seeing through, into a revolutionary activity, while implying that only an apocalyptic transformation in human thought might liberate us. Richard Rorty’s Philosophical Argument for National Pride 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z The apocalyptic fantasy focuses on the activities of a wild girl gang in 1977. Adam Ant 'royalist stigma' gone 2012-05-30T13:58:19Z Thus, as well as people running away from shambling animated corpses, we also get the military and political response to the apocalyptic event. When horror stopped being supernatural 2013-05-16T09:55:38Z Decius’ apocalyptic vision — “Charge the cockpit or you die” — stirred intense rebuttals from the overwhelmingly anti-Trump conservative intellectual establishment. ‘Charge the Cockpit or You Die’: Behind an Incendiary Case for Trump 2017-02-20T05:00:00Z Conversation turned naturally to industrial farming and apocalyptic scenes. Dinner at an Exhibition: Rat, Prepared Many Ways 2012-07-26T21:57:39Z The framework strongly recalls both “Battlestar Galactica,” in its combination of big ideas and apocalyptic space opera, and the mechanics of the “Terminator” films. ‘Raised by Wolves’ Review: Ridley Scott Among the Androids 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z For Hawkwind may sound apocalyptic, but they are also funny, and humour is a rare commodity in rock'n'roll. Hawkwind plus Easter equals ... Hawkeaster! 2013-04-02T15:20:32Z As a born idealist – an “apocalyptic optimist” as he calls himself – he wanted to uplift. Shake, rattle and Rolls: across America in the shadow of Elvis 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z This compact study of apocalyptic dreams, directed by James Macdonald and seen at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, portrayed four anxious, chatty women considering fears both present and future, and mundane and cosmic. The Best Theater of 2017 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z Americans stockpiled food, bought guns and prepared for the apocalyptic worst. Reliving the Completely Wild and Totally Surreal 2000 Oscars 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z It would be “merely grim, rather than apocalyptic.” In ‘The Uninhabitable Earth,’ Apocalypse Is Now 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z Despite the apocalyptic narrative, this is a character study, focusing on the two agents and layering exposition over their respective quirks. The Best of New Sci-Fi and Fantasy, From an Intergalactic Love Story to New York City Under Water 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z Looking back at McNaughton's oeuvre, which gradually drifted from religious themes into demented or apocalyptic right-wing politics, he almost seems to have anticipated Trump, if not actually conjured him into existence. Trump propaganda painter Jon McNaughton: "Greatest" artist of our time? 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z Human, then, is this movie’s unsatisfying finale—which seems to be a problem pervasive in the narrow genre of apocalyptic comedies. The World’s End: Sly, Wry Sci-Fi 2013-08-23T09:45:49Z Cormac McCarthy’s apocalyptic western thriller No Country for Old Men was filmed with passion and style by the Coen brothers: a dark and disquieting Texan movie to compare with their debut, Blood Simple. What is the best Oscar-winning film of all time? 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z There are no sights at all in Earfilms' To Sleep, to Dream, where the audience listen, blindfolded, to an apocalyptic tale set after the giant floods of 2040. Brighton festival – review 2013-05-11T23:07:30Z Britten's War Requiem, Martinu's Memorial to Lidice and Penderecki's apocalyptic Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima are just a few of the pieces that bear testimony to the brutality of that unprecedented total conflict. Carl Davis: my Kindertransport song cycle 2012-06-15T10:28:34Z And lastly, this apocalyptic narrative where there will be a race war where, I presume, the forces of of whiteness will triumph. Behind Dylann Roof’s race war: The highly motivated secret white supremacy movement working toward “the battle of Armageddon” 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z “What I’m interested in is when you take a person from a relatively normal life and suddenly throw them into completely apocalyptic conditions — how does that person react?” ?Forgotten Transports? of Czech Jews at Shoah Festival 2010-03-26T22:02:00Z There's something quietly apocalyptic about so dramatic a cultural shift. The shock, critique, theatricality of '80s art, on view in Fort Worth 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z “Guests are invited to enter the time portal and witness a terrible, apocalyptic future, wherein the world is ruled by a nefarious cookie cult.” Weekend Miser: Cookie Takedown and Yule Ball at Bell House in Brooklyn 2011-12-15T22:45:50Z Is there anything capable of surviving the apocalyptic wreckage of a world? 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z I was talking about, like John Hughes’s apocalyptic sense of being a teenager where the future seemed so enormous that you couldn’t deal with it. The 1975’s Matty Healy Is Still Trying to Be Funny, Sincerely 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z My theory is that jokes about the Rapture express a deeper anxiety about the decidedly apocalyptic times we live in… It’s clear that there are looming crises in both global capitalism and the environment. Zombie state 2012-06-08T14:45:00Z But here Arsham was in apocalyptic decline-and-fall mode, with oversized images of sculptural faces, limbs and objects repeatedly colliding and shattering in his large-scale video projections. Movement as bleak theater, with some terrific Pharrell music too 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z John Stott, the noted English theologian, used Satan's depiction in the Bible's apocalyptic book, Revelation, to explain why Satan is still a danger to us. After-school 'Satan Club' takes new aim at archenemy: Christian clubs for kids 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z Set in Antarctica, “Virus” focuses on the survivors of an apocalyptic outbreak. Movie Listings for Nov. 4-10 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z As the Starr Report would later confirm, these apocalyptic moralists had some very dirty minds indeed, and such was the soil in which Absolute Power was cultivated. Absolute Power at 20: what we can learn from a thriller about an evil president 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z A neat companion piece to Katie Mitchell and Stephen Emmott's apocalyptic environmental lecture Ten Billion, which made a brief stop here before travelling back to London's Royal Court, Tomorrow's Parties is no mere the-end-is-nigh placard. Avignon festival week two roundup: Seagull dead in the water, but Ibsen comes alive 2012-07-25T15:29:08Z The commentary over this year's race has been unusually apocalyptic, even by Hollywood's standards. The Oscars: Who calls the shots? 2011-02-24T21:45:00Z “It has a certain apocalyptic mood that seems to fit with what’s going on today in the world,” he says now. The Godfather – but with chimpanzees: on set with War for the Planet of the Apes 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z When we started developing the idea of an apocalyptic story, it came back to me. | Edgar Wright on the Autobiographical Inspirations Behind His Boozy Film 2013-08-22T21:05:22Z Ms. Van de Vate’s skill as an orchestrator is evident from the opening measures of the eerie, brooding overture, whose gently dissonant arc built in tension to an apocalyptic climax. ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ in Its U.S. Premiere 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z Just as every generation prepares to hand the keys over to the next, its more bitter and resentful members demonstrate the apocalyptic apoplexy of self-centered illusion. My college students aren’t “snowflakes” — they’re tougher than their critics could imagine 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z The child of Brünnhilde and Siegfried, not in Wagner’s libretto, died in last year’s version but now escapes the apocalyptic finale. At Bayreuth, the Work on Wagner’s Operas Is Never Done 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z When this apocalyptic Danish sci-fi series debuted in 2018, The Times critic Mike Hale wrote that it was “engineered for current TV trends, and specifically for what appear to be Netflix’s appetites.” What’s on TV Thursday: ‘An American Pickle’ and ‘Shawshank Redemption’ 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z “Bird Box” takes place in an apocalyptic near-future world and opens with a woman and her two children making their way down a river in a rowboat while blindfolded. Detroit-area rock singer Josh Malerman pens novel 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z That may sound apocalyptic, but it’s not, given how fast movies zip from theaters to video on demand. In an Era of Streaming, Cinema Is Under Attack 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z “It’s all very purposeful and clear, and that’s, to me, the function of apocalyptic theology,” he said. Tom Perrotta Discusses the Themes of ?The Leftovers.? 2011-08-29T22:15:59Z In an interview last year, Van den Berg spoke of her desire to capture the apocalyptic mood of contemporary life in a novel. Laura van den Berg's 'Find Me' captures a memorable apocalypse 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z It is a performance that has the same life-or-death gravity Mr. Shannon brought to the role of a man driven half-mad by apocalyptic portents in “Take Shelter.” Movie Review: ‘The Iceman,’ With Michael Shannon as Richard Kuklinski 2013-05-02T22:01:34Z “The Leftovers” is the flip side of the usual apocalyptic novel. Perspective | Tom Perrotta’s ‘The Leftovers’ imagined 2 percent of the population disappearing. That could be our reality. 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z Recently, my latest book, a contemporary novel about a pregnant Latinx anthropologist who has to battle her way through an apocalyptic New Mexico, was labeled "appropriative" — as in, culturally — in an online review. On cultural appropriation: A Latina novelist calls herself out amid the "American Dirt" controversy 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z For the director, the most difficult part of the production was to do everything that the apocalyptic script proposed — and stick to the budget. Director brings Mexico to forefront in “The Forever Purge” 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z Using digital 3-D imaging of mind-bending complexity, Giacomo Costa’s latest productions are of astonishing apocalyptic landscapes and futuristic images of ruined megalopolises being overtaken by nature, which are both disturbing and hauntingly beautiful. Scene/ Seen: Up Against the Renaissance 2011-01-21T13:00:04Z Set in an apocalyptic world, it featured eight dancers moving from the back to the front of the stage over and over again under hazy spotlights. Review: A Cuban Troupe’s Strong Dancers, Less Strong Premieres 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z The song was Simone at her best — a sly blend of the show tune, searing racial critique and apocalyptic warning. Nina Simone’s Time Is Now, Again 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z Next year’s entry into the disaster movie canon involves climate-controlling satellites which threaten to create an apocalyptic storm if Gerard Butler doesn’t manage to get them under control fast enough. These are TIME's Most Anticipated Movies of 2017 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z At the moment, the world is feeling pretty apocalyptic, between coronavirus fears, economic concerns and the threat of natural disasters. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘Babylon Berlin’ and ‘Women of Troy’ 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z Smart, stylish and apocalyptic, Zach Blas’s “Contra-Internet” at Art in General uses sculpture and moving images to critique the internet as a tool of capitalism and oppression, and to imagine its messy demise. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z Themes include crises both personal and planetary, in tones ranging from whimsical to hopeful to vaguely apocalyptic. ‘Annual Animation Show of Shows’ Review: A Mix of Whimsy and Dread 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z The novel bombards its reader with info-bites — funny, sad, thoughtful, angry, confused, apocalyptic — with the ceaseless regularity of a combustion engine. Review | Reading ‘Ducks, Newburyport’ is mentally taxing — and physically exhausting 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z "Utopia" suffers from stumbles that are all too typical among ambitious creators, primarily the urge to showcase Lane's formidable heroine and a knotty conspiracy with apocalyptic implications at the expense of story and character development. "Utopia" shows the disheartening problems of pandemic TV 2020-10-10T04:00:00Z Who better to play a battered, grizzled apocalyptic survivor on The Walking Dead. Which forgotten 80s movie stars deserve a television comeback? 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z Mr. Kesler said that he found the tone of apocalyptic urgency exaggerated but compared the essay to the clarion call of Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense.” ‘Charge the Cockpit or You Die’: Behind an Incendiary Case for Trump 2017-02-20T05:00:00Z As opposed to when you look at paintings that are incredibly apocalyptic and doomed. Isaac Mizrahi, on Collecting Art in Search of the Me Factor 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z “I don’t see anything apocalyptic with him coming in,” said Rocco Landesman, the Broadway impresario and former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, which disburses grants to cultural organizations and projects. Trump and the Arts: ‘Evita,’ Huge Towers and a Snub for Warhol 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z Too nice, really, for its apocalyptic subject matter. 'Seeking a Friend for the End of the World': Have a nice doomsday 2012-06-20T22:26:04Z Shelley's friend Leigh Hunt praised his "union of ludicrousness with terror" – as in this blending of apocalyptic vision with pantomime. Anarchy in Peterloo: Shelley's poem unmasked 2013-07-08T17:28:22Z Or, in a slightly less apocalyptic scenario, are we looking at a future where movies are personally tailored to individual viewers? 'It's a war between technology and a donkey' – how AI is shaking up Hollywood 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z Wailing sirens and a haunting loop of Vera Lynn's voice ricochet around the theatre, while a screen shows apocalyptic newsreel of burning buildings. Cinderella ? review 2010-12-10T17:26:00Z With its prickling, apocalyptic aesthetic and persistent paranoia, this spooky political thriller is all about a mood: conspiratorial, sinister, unsettled. ‘Zeros and Ones’ Review: Plague and Paranoia 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z “Although they both used to be fairly moderate, and even pro-gun control, they rose to their current heights of political power by stoking apocalyptic fear with deranged rhetoric.” “Apocalyptic fear, deranged rhetoric”: Donald Trump and the NRA have a lot in common 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z And once he hits on the concept for a movie called “Zombie Wars,” he’s determined to carry his corny, apocalyptic treatment to its painfully derivative last line. ‘The Making of Zombie Wars’ goes beyond the undead 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z "Station Eleven" draws from apocalyptic literature, a narrative form that tells us more about the present than the future. Apocalyptic fiction helps us deal with the anxiety of the coronavirus pandemic 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z “I can’t in good conscience bring a child into this world and force them to try to survive what may be apocalyptic conditions,” one 27-year-old woman said. Having kids increases global warming. But don’t blame the parents… 2020-12-13T05:00:00Z There’s a strand of apocalyptic science fiction which seems to imagine that most people are just waiting for an excuse to become a cannibal. Naomi Alderman Was Writing a Pandemic Novel Before the Pandemic Hit 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z It’s the rare epic disaster movie in which the result of the central apocalyptic event is already known to anyone familiar with the basics of world history. Today’s Movie Trailer: Pompeii 2013-08-22T16:30:06Z But even without these, it seems too apocalyptic to declare that the EU is dying or even already dead. Historians and Brexit 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Brief and mystical, this is an extremely austere conclusion to the apocalyptic pilgrimage. Review: ‘The Road,’ by Cormac McCarthy 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z “We had a very apocalyptic view of what the contents of the containers would be,” McClean said. How Drake’s $100 Million Bet Saved the Long-Lost Art Carnival Luna Luna 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z It’s completely mesmeric and beautiful in an apocalyptic way, and it just goes on and on. 50 documentaries you need to see 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z In January, James and his wife, Kathryn, expressed “frustration” about News Corp’s peddling of climate change denialism in the face of apocalyptic Australian wildfires that incinerated 46 million acres. James Murdoch, Rebellious Scion 2020-10-10T04:00:00Z In most apocalyptic tales, the reader is expected to accept certain baseline assumptions. Three Sisters, an Island and an Apocalyptic Tale of Survival 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z Who’s going to worry about what can’t be seen when so many dangers termed “apocalyptic” seem to be in plain sight? America’s psychic numbing: Why we’re so obsessed with “apocalypse” 2014-02-26T13:30:00Z Today’s Birthers and Tea Partiers seem less apocalyptic if you remember that the last time a Democratic president battled Republicans over health care and federal budgets, he was being smeared as a conspiratorial murderer. Riff: ?My So-Called Adulthood? 2011-08-07T04:15:28Z The CW’s latest apocalyptic drama "The Messengers" opens on April 10 and will air Fridays at 9 p.m. TCA 2015: The CW, on a roll, picks up all its scripted series 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z What there is, apparently, is advanced-placement classes in eschatology, because Grizz is able to translate the graffitied words, an Aramaic phrase from the apocalyptic Book of Daniel: “The writing’s on the wall.” “The Society,” Reviewed: A Teen Dystopia, but with, Like, Socialism 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z The sites flaunt gaudily apocalyptic graphics, bristle with audaciously punctuated headlines, and urge you towards reams of densely argued revelation, often published in eye-wateringly light text on a dark background. Pop stars and their conspiracy theories 2011-07-21T20:48:00Z An apocalyptic rift, separating landmasses, pushing the building, the world, apart ... Doris Salcedo, Caravaggio and Jacob Zuma exposed – the week in art 2012-05-25T12:00:17Z But Pattinson says he disagrees with those commentators who proclaim Cosmopolis – both novel and film – to be an apocalyptic statement about the collapse of modern society. Cannes 2012: Robert Pattinson buries Twilight spectre with banker role 2012-05-25T18:29:28Z There’s a scene that comes later where one of our characters does witness something like that and that’s part of our apocalyptic education: realizing that body shots are not going to do the job. 'Fear the Walking Dead' Showrunner Breaks Down the Series Premiere 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z Or an apocalyptic relic, the only sign left of modern commercialism. Marfa Road Trip: Thelma and Louise, With a Happier Ending 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z His doctrine is now a mainstay in many Protestant denominations: Halloween at my youth group meant showings of apocalyptic films. The Leftovers: confusion and doubt mirrors my religious journey 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z “It’s quite a shock when you arrive. A lot of rebellion; the people are quite tough. It’s, like, apocalyptic.” A Designer With a Low Profile Is Ready to Raise It Up 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z This is Pinter with apocalyptic special effects, “Old Times: Armageddon.” Review: ‘Old Times,’ Where the Past Is a Dangerous Place 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z Buildings and cities — often in apocalyptic states of ruination — were recurring motifs. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: 21 Great Buildings Throughout History 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z The meaning of his grisly flashbacks and tortured recollections become shockingly clear in an apocalyptic ending. ‘That Demon Within’: A cop’s anguish feeds thriller’s flame 2014-04-17T20:25:23Z Most observers see terrorism, climate change and economic trauma as fostering the appeal of apocalyptic scenarios. World War Z unleashes an unedifying breed of zombie 2013-06-17T13:58:58Z As this collection moves forward, she is so reliably thundersome that she loses, as does Ahab in “Moby-Dick,” a certain “low, enjoying power”: She’s unable to comprehend much in front of her but apocalyptic machinations. Review: ‘After the Tall Timber,’ Renata Adler’s Collected Nonfiction 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z Set during a time when “the rain is endless and heavy with sludge” and featuring an apocalyptic cult, “We Destroy the Moon” might, like a few of the other stories, be termed science fiction. Review | The appeal of ‘And I Do Not Forgive You’ is hard to articulate but impossible to resist 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z This maximizing may reflect the demands placed on a televised version of the Rapture—the apocalypse ought to look and feel apocalyptic. The Leftovers: Tom Perrotta's Rapture 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z Your mileage will vary, but if you like your apocalyptic fare sweet and silly, start with “When the Yogurt Took Over,” a tale of sentient dairy. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z These Bosch-like accounts are grotesque and whimsical, painting landscapes of destruction from the basic vocabularies of both contemporary culture and ages-old apocalyptic imagery. Review: In ‘Escaped Alone’ Fears Small (Cats) and Large (Apocalypse) 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z Ben H. Winters’s apocalyptic detective story “The Last Policeman” contains an earth-shattering element of science fiction that lifts it beyond a typical procedural. Dear Match Book: I’m Seeking Satirical, Semifantastical and Stand-Out Literary Fiction 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z Poorna Jagannathan invokes her seduction as a child by “a man we called uncle” in language that evokes the nihilistic cadences of the apocalyptic playwright Sarah Kane: “I am being fingered. Probed. Eaten. Devoured. Disappeared.” Review: ‘Nirbhaya,’ a Lamentation and a Rallying Cry for Indian Women 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z In place of words of comfort, we got apocalyptic televangelism. As Images of Pain Flood TV, ‘Where Is Our Leader?’ 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z Revelation is quoted here not, as usual, for its apocalyptic fervor, but in a mood of utopian sweetness. Review: For Once, Singing of Complete and Utter Clarity 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z But online, there seems to be something between schadenfreude and apocalyptic glee about these respective crashes. The NYSE shutdown prompts irrepressible, apocalyptic glee: “In Zuccotti Park, Goldman Sachs boys build a squatters city out of Hermes gift boxes” 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z As the movie pathetically tries to build up expectations about what might be in the bag, it recalls “Kiss Me Deadly,” in which Pandora’s metal box releases an apocalyptic blast of radiation. Movie Review: ‘The Bag Man,’ Starring Robert De Niro 2014-02-28T00:34:03Z Big Reagan-era hits like “Dixie on My Mind,” “Country State of Mind,” and “American Dream,” not to mention the apocalyptic “A Country Boy Can Survive,” articulated the same country conservatism. The Awkward, Enduring Influence of Hank Williams, Jr. 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Aside from a zombie apocalyptic fight about what we are going to eat out of the fridge first, it’s been really nice. They Overcame Marriage Fears 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z “It was a like an apocalyptic movie,” Mari recalled. Feeling Down? Try a Good Vibes Dance for Your Hands 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z He interviews archaeologists and language experts who smilingly indulge him, enjoying their time on camera, but uniformly deny the existence of an apocalyptic prophecy. Critic’s Notebook: On National Geographic Channel, No End in Sight for Doom 2012-11-30T23:21:41Z Brad Pitt stars in this apocalyptic zombie flick based on the novel by Max Brooks and directed by Marc Forster. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Born This Way’ and ‘The Sinner’ 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z These days, in fact, it’s easy enough to pin the label “apocalyptic peril” on just about any country one loathes, even while ignoring friends, allies, and oneself. America’s psychic numbing: Why we’re so obsessed with “apocalypse” 2014-02-26T13:30:00Z Von Trier's remarks stirred up reporters, and left Dunst and co-stars such as Charlotte Gainsbourg sitting uneasily alongside their director at a press conference Wednesday after his apocalyptic drama "Melancholia" had its first screening. Von Trier stirs up Cannes with Hitler, Nazi quips 2011-05-18T13:34:10Z However, more consideration of the role of apocalyptic discussion in current fundamentalist churches would have strengthened the book. 'Revelations': a Biblical road map for the world's end 2012-04-04T20:29:08Z This scene is as apocalyptic as it is beautiful. Books of The Times: ?[sic]: A Memoir,? by Joshua Cody - Review 2011-12-20T22:40:00Z “Forgive me for not trusting an electronic device during an apocalyptic storm,” he told her huffily. 'Sleepy Hollow' Recap: A Not-So-Shocking Death 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z Victims infected by their bite become zombies themselves, setting off a chain of infections with apocalyptic consequences. Review | George Romero’s posthumous epic, ‘The Living Dead,’ reads like a definitive account of the zombie apocalypse 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z And, so, mission accomplished, largely with a lot of conversational face-offs and regular bursts of showy violence that sometimes turn panoramic, allowing you to admire the scale of the apocalyptically dressed sets. Review: ‘The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2,’ Katniss’s Final Battle 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z Within a month, she has entered into full-blown psychosis, insisting that she’s talking to the Devil, who’s sending her apocalyptic messages. New in Memoir: Lessons in Falling in Love, and 2 Accounts of Its Horrors 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z Back then, Butler’s apocalyptic vision felt as if it were fast approaching but still avoidable. Apocalypse Nowish: Singing the Prophetic Warnings of Octavia Butler 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z I don’t know what kind of year that guy had, but for most of us 2018 was the year all of those apocalyptic cinematic fantasies became that much more plausible. Why "Bird Box" is smashing Netflix records: We're so close to apocalypse ourselves 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z Those kinds of intimacies are a more common feature of the recent crop of apocalyptic novels. A Science-Fiction Classic Still Smolders 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z Clad in apocalyptic “Blade Runner” meets “Rhythm Nation” gear, they have held up signs that said, “Trump Lies, People Die,” not unlike the “Silence = Death” tag phrase of Act Up. For H.I.V. Survivors, a Feeling of Weary Déjà Vu 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z It is a dire warning that the world is on the brink of apocalyptic climate change, and that men should work together in union rather than indulge in petty power squabbles. The wall is coming: Trump becomes world's worst Game of Thrones fan 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z DeLillo’s new one is a pristine disaster novel with apocalyptic overtones. Don DeLillo, an Old Hand at Paranoia and Dread, Meets Us Where We Are 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z A tunnel collapse imperiling a parent, flame-thrower violence and apocalyptic devastation. | 'Mia and the Migoo': Seeking a Missing Father and Mending the Earth 2011-03-24T21:43:33Z “We both write about pretty extreme subjects and apocalyptic global scenarios,” he said a few days earlier at a coffee shop in San Francisco. Nathaniel and Simon: The Brothers Rich 2013-01-04T21:32:05Z The same was true when “We Don’t Need Another Hero,” the apocalyptic anthem from the “Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome” soundtrack, was conscripted for a cremation. Review: The ‘Tina’ Musical Is One Inch Deep, Mountain High 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z But when an apocalyptic adversary surfaces, she shockingly signs away her soul, and the majority of her connection to her friends, in order to save them. Smart Watch: We need hot Santa Claus, now more than ever 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z I’m not sure what that means either, but it’s a great read, which infuses a prosaic life with a steady, thrum of apocalyptic dread that heightens the senses. Review: The Lists We Live by in Daniel Fish’s ‘White Noise’ 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z There is nothing great — or even particularly apocalyptic — about “The Dark Tower.” Review | In ‘The Dark Tower,’ Matthew McConaughey is funny — in a bad way 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z Damon said films were the best vehicle to help humans empathize with each other, adding that despite its apocalyptic tone, "Downsizing" ultimately is an optimistic movie. Shrunken Matt Damon opens 74th Venice film festival 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z Anita Desai's new book is her best since Fasting, Feasting and shares the apocalyptic vision of her extraordinary Fire on the Mountain. The Artist of Disappearance by Anita Desai ? review 2011-08-25T23:05:01Z And then similarly in “Suburbia,” at the end you rise up and look out over the vast apocalyptic — and I was like, “Wow, this happens twice.” "Office Space" 20th anniversary: Read the full Q&A moderated by Richard Linklater 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z From 6,000 miles away, abstract reflections on the strength of Senegalese institutions crumbled instantly before the assault of apocalyptic headlines. My daughter’s Ebola scare: Why we’re not ready to panic (yet) 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z The reaction would have been different — louder and more apocalyptic — 10 or 15 years ago. The Real End of David Chang’s Momofuku Ko Happened Years Ago 2023-10-28T04:00:00Z The climax was an apocalyptic gallery surveying the horrors wrought by “guns, churches and government” upon the Indian. ‘Nation to Nation,’ at Museum of the American Indian 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z Krips, stigmatized by the Nazis as a half-Jewish conductor, clearly had no problem with the continuation of the concert, whose last performance had taken place when the mood was apocalyptic. The Complex History Behind a Vienna Philharmonic Tradition 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z This wasn’t an entirely new feat for Mr. Edwards, whose previous work includes elaborate depictions of apocalyptic tornadoes and solar storms for the American series “Perfect Disaster.” Making Movies With Laptops and Ingenuity 2010-10-15T16:58:00Z Shifting the focus from bloodsucking to viral transmission, “I Am Legend” introduced modern apocalyptic horror, with its endless procession of hordes of rampaging monsters. Why the Vampire Myth Won’t Die 2021-10-30T04:00:00Z And for sheer physical terror, she swirls up apocalyptic dust storms, ordeals of gritty insistence that last for days, transforming the landscape, burying homes and filling lungs. Review | ‘The Four Winds’ is Kristin Hannah’s next inevitable bestseller. Don’t forget the tissues. 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z The juxtaposition of this early work — two recorded loops of a preacher’s apocalyptic account of Noah’s flood that are played in and out of sync — and the new, more melodic, composition is a terrific one. Review: A Decade On, Wayne McGregor Continues to Energize the Royal Ballet 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z I kept thinking about “Melancholia,” perhaps his finest movie, and whether its apocalyptic tale of depression and death was autobiographical. Arts & Leisure: Conflicting Voices in Lars von Trier?s Words and Works 2011-09-21T16:24:21Z In any case, his point about climate change was never that it isn’t an apocalyptic threat; but rather, that thinking about it can short-circuit serious consideration of practical steps like conservation. Review | Jonathan Franzen has some baggage. Does his latest essay collection rise above it? 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z And, broadly speaking, the idea of a kids film now and then getting a PG is, far from an apocalyptic thing, actually good for the larger system. 'Paddington' film: Lovable bear is at center of PG rating debate 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z Fellini's judgment – "an apocalyptic tone-poem" – is the best launchpad for your enjoyment of it. Hitchcock and Borges revisited 2010-03-27T00:07:00Z Inspired both by domestic politics and by American and European New Wave cinema, directors created epic dramas that portrayed apocalyptic government conspiracies and dystopian cyber-police states. The Most Popular Anime of All Time Comes to America 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z Ironically, dozens of apocalyptic novels may have misled us about what lies ahead. Perspective | Tom Perrotta’s ‘The Leftovers’ imagined 2 percent of the population disappearing. That could be our reality. 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z Act III, too, has transformed: Its ceremonial theater piece seemed sharper, or maybe I understood better that we need the grandeur of a chanting masked chorus to communicate apocalyptic horror. Revisiting a Post-Apocalyptic Play in the Pandemic 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z In his first season, Mr. Gilbert persuaded the institution to let him present a fully staged production of Ligeti’s satirical, apocalyptic opera, “Le Grand Macabre,” designed and directed by Mr. Fitch, at Avery Fisher Hall. Critic’s Notebook: Alan Gilbert Shapes a Legacy of Change at the Philharmonic 2013-07-15T20:46:01Z “Gold” is set on a sunbaked wasteland, in a future in which an apocalyptic war has scarred the earth. ‘Gold’ Review: Dry Heave 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z The question sounds both trivial — there are surely graver matters to worry about — and unduly apocalyptic. How Much Do You Really Miss Going to the Movies? 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z A writer could begin a buzzard-black apocalyptic novel with a scientist noticing levels are falling. How New York City Got Its Fresh Water 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z They’d listen to Fay, dissecting his peculiar mix of apocalyptic vision and hopeful grit. Bill Fay Was a Hidden Gem. One Musician Made Finding Him a Mission. 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z On the other, "Bellflower" is a scorched-earth action film, high on an apocalyptic taste for mayhem, blood and even fractured, alternate-reality logic. 'Bellflower': Promising drama undone by mayhem, pretension 2011-09-01T19:16:05Z Some news outlets even call the novel a "model for how we could respond" to an apocalyptic pandemic. Apocalyptic fiction helps us deal with the anxiety of the coronavirus pandemic 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z The black pupil at the center of all this activity continued to stare straight ahead, spookily, not moving a fraction of an inch left or right, as if mesmerized by visions of an apocalyptic future. The eye surgery I never should have seen 2014-01-28T00:00:00Z Islamic prophecies of the End Times say that Iraq and Syria will be the sites of the final battles, so when there’s major upheaval in either country, it invites an apocalyptic interpretation. “The Islamic State would not be with us today if the United States hadn’t invaded Iraq”: Islam, religion, and the interview Donald Trump and Ted Cruz must read now 2016-03-19T04:00:00Z Iron and Wine’s first albums, beginning in 2002, were quiet, homegrown productions, with string-band instruments cradling Mr. Beam’s thoughtful tenor voice and lyrics that entwine the intimate, the apocalyptic and the mythic. Music Review: Bells and Whistles Turn Up the Volume 2011-01-30T22:55:08Z Both explore something of the apocalyptic political moment in the United States and beyond. Nicole Kidman: ‘To hear women being believed makes me cry’ 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z The Times obviously selected the authors and stories for their apocalyptic conclusions to the Trump presidency. Letters to the Editor 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z Act 1 suggests that the village is little more than a clearing in the forest, hemmed about with darkness, while Act 2 has an almost apocalyptic wildness, reminiscent of the paintings of Salvator Rosa. Giselle ? review 2011-01-16T00:05:54Z While this dream is trippy enough as is, there are some key elements that suggest this vision is of an apocalyptic world. Here’s What You Probably Missed in 'Batman v Superman' 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z Writing in The New York Times in November, Manohla Dargis called the film an “apocalyptic folly” that “cracks the planet like a nut, laying its every creeping thing to inevitable tedious waste.” DVDs: Another Trippy Rabbit Hole 2010-02-27T03:01:00Z Koresh preached a brand of apocalyptic prophecy — which included interpretations of the Book of Revelation and the Seven Seals — and convinced his followers they would soon be under attack by the federal government. The 6 most shocking revelations from Netflix's latest docuseries "Waco: American Apocalypse" 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z That night, at a local church, he delivered his apocalyptic “Mountaintop” speech. 50 Years After Dr. King’s Death, New Lessons for Today 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z The program notes for “Room” describe the setting as a marble quarry, but more apocalyptic images came to mind: the ruins of an amphitheater, or a bombed-out building. (La)Horde: Dancing Out Primal Impulses and Resistance 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z But back in 2004 the mere sight of him on an episode of Parkinson sent me into an apocalyptic tailspin. Charlie Brooker: Why I'm calling time on Screen Burn 2010-10-15T13:54:00Z Yet slips are hardly rare and not remotely apocalyptic. Debunking Alcoholics Anonymous: Behind the myths of recovery 2014-04-05T18:00:00Z As late as the writings of Paul, believers held that a “Parousia,” or apocalyptic Second Coming, was imminent. Jesus Died Only to Rise Again. Where Did the Concept of the Resurrection Come From? 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z Laced with uncommon menace — an apocalyptic rain of nails, a Polaroid camera that erases memories — these stories are ultimately rooted in something sinister: the anxieties of modern life. 13 new Halloween reads to chill, amuse, inform and terrify 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z He works in the music industry, she is an aspiring newspaper reporter, and the movie acknowledges the grim circumstances prevailing in both of their chosen fields without being too apocalyptic about it. | 'Going the Distance': Nothing Keeps Them Apart Except a Continent 2010-09-02T21:30:00Z And yet, there is nothing apocalyptic in Hurtado’s drawings, nothing that reveals fear of disaster and ultimate doom. Luchita Hurtado abstract artworks mix cultures like colors, to rousing effect 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z My daughter's America has become apocalyptic — safe states scattered wide and broken up by vast stretches of lands that are openly hostile to her existence. For my transgender daughter, there are only 18 States of America 2023-06-10T04:00:00Z Over swirling synths, the apocalyptic lyrics tell of mutant creatures wreaking a terrible revenge on humanity for its environmental crimes. Sounds of France - day one: a history of French pop in 10 songs 2012-05-28T10:32:14Z Okay , we get it already - the apocalyptic life is not a morally just one. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 6, Episode 13: Carol the Killer 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z The story makes apocalyptic stakes — the fate of the multiverse; the struggle between good and evil — seem curiously trivial. ‘Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness’ Review: Nothing Out of the Ordinary 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z He looks like someone who wants to sell you yak-wool sweaters for extreme weather, or a chapbook of his own apocalyptic poems. All Hail the Achievement Beard! 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z Its visionary scenario and detailed account of apocalyptic events are as grand and sweeping as anything the earlier books had to offer. ‘The Scarlet Gospels,’ by Clive Barker 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z It was yet another sign of the apocalyptic decline that started in the 1970s, after race riots, and endured during a surge in crime. New Beach Destination on the Jersey Shore? Asbury Park 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z The two explore a apocalyptic city in the video with Howard hunting Madonna down. Watch Madonna and Terrence Howard Get Post-Apocalyptic in 'Ghosttown' Music Video 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z In this now classic treatise on apocalyptic thinking in fiction, Kermode argues that it “is commonplace to talk about our historical situation as uniquely terrible and in a way privileged, a cardinal point in time.” London theater forecast after Brexit and Trump: Overcast skies with a chance of apocalypse 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z That renaissance was fueled by vital contributions from new and long-established writers both here and across the globe, and reflected concerns ranging from the personal to the political to the apocalyptic. Analysis | Just in time for Halloween, the best horror fiction of the year 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z It sits on the plate like a slag heap, or the ashes of an apocalyptic disaster. The Experimental Food Society's culinary revolution 2010-09-22T20:59:00Z There’s another apocalyptic, seemingly unstoppable villain and a metric ton of action. Grading the Comic-Con trailers: ‘Stranger Things,’ ‘Thor: Ragnarok,’ ‘Ready Player One,’ ‘Game of Thrones’ 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z Shackleton's time in Berlin has clearly influenced his production: apocalyptic dub cityscapes have been replaced with taut techno. Unsound of the underground ? the festival that feels like a s?ance 2010-10-27T15:33:00Z As apocalyptic tales go, it's not the most brutal or gruesome. Review: Well-told 'Aftermath' unfolds as yet another apocalypse 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z The headlines were filled with apocalyptic scenarios — hellish wildfires, North Korean nuclear threats, melting glaciers, not to mention a long-prophesied economic collapse. The Most Vexing Unanswered Questions of 2017 2017-12-30T05:00:00Z They are alternately rural and urban, tender and apocalyptic, written in the face of oil spills and also under a “raptor’s / accurate shadow / falling over me always / premonitory.” Four New Poetry Collections Confront Despair With Wonder 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z But as we got closer, an apocalyptic scene came into view: flooded farmlands; tree trunks rotting in murky water; a small town, Boca de Cachón, submerged. Driving the Seam of Hispaniola 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z One is the copious supply of photographs and film of the dust storms themselves, awesome and apocalyptic images he can put on screen whenever we need a visual jolt. Television Review: ‘The Dust Bowl,’ by Ken Burns, on PBS 2012-11-17T01:17:19Z As if triggered by his presence, screens lower from the ceiling to display videos of scenes that begin sylvan and pleasing but, as his time there progresses, grow increasingly apocalyptic. Don Delillo's deep freeze: 'Zero K' takes on death, futurists and cryonics 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z "The Lord of the Rings has an apocalyptic sort of heavy themic end-of-the world quality to it, which the Hobbit doesn't, which is one of the delights of it," he said. Jackson's Hobbit: the journey begins 2012-12-07T05:09:12Z Images of volcanic activity become more apocalyptic, and after the climactic devastation, the room’s panels open, and we face the darkened gallery of ghostly figures. Exhibition Review: When the Dead Arise and Head to Times Square 2011-03-03T23:15:11Z He came across a gin bottle in the street, brought it home to his apartment, and began to paint a still life, which quickly took on the atmosphere of his apocalyptic anxieties. A life in paintings 2011-03-20T00:08:06Z It's Chanda who bravely confronts the apocalyptic terror and shame just below a society's surface when she undertakes a journey late in this topical tale. 'Life, Above All' ? measured tale of AIDS in South Africa 2011-08-19T16:10:05Z The references to zombies spoke to the apocalyptic mindset of both sides. Deconstruction zone: Doubling down on dystopia, preventing the triumph of Trump’s will 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z Scott's "Blade Runner" is also striking for its stylized apocalyptic and dystopian backdrops and fashion in a world in which only the unfortunate masses — and the corporations whose neon signs are ubiquitous — remain. "Blade Runner" and the lesson Roy Batty’s Replicant rebellion has to teach us 2022-07-16T04:00:00Z The script will come from Brooks McLaren, whose forthcoming work includes apocalyptic thriller How It Ends. Rambo: second blood? Action movie classic to get a reboot 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z For that matter, in the novel, the sexual repression of the era—and the sexual frustration of Winesburg’s young men—comes to an apocalyptic outburst with what is, in effect, a sex riot. A Sterilized Philip Roth Adaptation 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z Curiously, a bond develops between Pete, who feels he has ruined everything in his life, and Pearl, whose faith is happily based on the prospect of apocalyptic ruination. ‘Fourth of July Creek’ by Smith Henderson 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z Radically unsentimental, the first film had a gleeful apocalyptic quality that made it feel like a feature-length version of the end of “Dr. Strangelove,” in which Slim Pickens hoots his way to doomsday. Movie Review: ‘RoboCop’ Remake Arrives, Starring Joel Kinnaman 2014-02-11T23:09:06Z “Don’t Look Up” : Meryl Streep plays a self-centered scoundrel in Adam McKay's apocalyptic satire. ‘Spencer’ Review: Prisoner of the House of Windsor 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z All of the bulwarks were made to form a network to protect Las Vegas from flash floods, which, given the geography of the region can be apocalyptic. How does Las Vegas prevent catastrophic floods? The answer is in this exhibition 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z Over the course of three acts, an episode of “The Simpsons” becomes an unlikely cultural pillar as society rebuilds itself following the apocalyptic failure of the power grid. In 'Mr. Burns,' Sacred Fools mines a classic 'Simpsons' episode for dark comedy 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z Before “Glass Houses” concludes — with that aforementioned near apocalyptic finish — that stranger will be identified as wearing the costume of “The Cobrador,” or debt collector. You won’t want Louise Penny’s latest to end 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z My daughter's America has become apocalyptic — safe states scattered wide and broken up by vast stretches of lands that are openly hostile to her existence. For my transgender daughter, there are only 18 States of America 2023-06-10T04:00:00Z He denounced Christianity at an early age, but his work is rife with apocalyptic visions and paradises lost. Familiar Tales Remixed, at the Hands of a Postmodern Master 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z Songs like “Crazy Kids” and “All That Matters” express a lust for life tinged with apocalyptic desperation. Music: Kesha Tilts Closer to a Rock Sound With ‘Warrior’ 2012-11-25T00:10:06Z The whimsical and artistic show Tuesday, bringing fresh elements like Coco knitwear, lay somewhere between the apocalyptic scenario of a year ago and the summer collection, which was a pearl-strewn ode to the sea. Fashion Review: Chanel: Crystal Inspires Lagerfeld 2012-03-06T19:29:09Z In both she uses specific phrases, such as a word of her own invention – "mindchange" – the mental equivalent of climate change, with equally apocalyptic consequences. 2121: A Tale from the Next Century by Susan Greenfield – review 2013-07-21T10:00:00Z Which leads them ever closer to a series of events that, as concurrently unfolding narratives reveal, add up to complicated and possibly apocalyptic conspiracy. ABC's 'American Crime,' USA's 'Dig' up the ante on Thursdays 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z But not every one is about the apocalyptic threat posed to the inhabitants of planet Earth. Invasion of the dumbasses 2011-08-11T20:32:01Z Among the first responders were writers offering dystopian fiction and apocalyptic nonfiction, all questioning the durability of democracy under stress. Why Intellectuals Support Dictators 2020-07-19T04:00:00Z With their giant, pneumatic, spray-painted letters spelling names like Crash and Daze against apocalyptic backgrounds, those unauthorized moving murals amazed me. Art Review: Graffiti Art at the Museum of the City of New York 2014-02-06T22:42:14Z Internet doomsday, explained Topics: , The apocalyptic story line was once reserved for truly apocalyptic events. Let’s watch a murder 2012-06-10T01:00:00Z Visually inspired but thematically derivative, the apocalyptic sci-fi drama "Automata" pits humans against robots with predictable results. 'Automata' appears to be on automatic pilot 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z In typical form, Ms. Ono’s message has an apocalyptic edge. Yoko Ono, Almost 80, Has a Renaissance 2012-11-28T22:01:06Z He envisioned a Brooklyn building filled with neighbors trapped together after an apocalyptic disaster. Nicole Haran, a Co-Creator of a Theater and a Web Series, Dies at 47 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z Despite its apocalyptic title, though, and some time spent on the evacuation at Dunkirk, “World on Fire” isn’t about big events. Review: In ‘World on Fire,’ War Is the Virus 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z No matter how many times I heard this apocalyptic prediction, it was jarring to hear, especially when inserted into conversations about Great Bear Lake’s beauty and providence. A Remote Canadian Lake and Its People: Protecting a Last Refuge 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z Her approach to landscape soon took on apocalyptic overtones. Louisa Chase, Painter of Geometric Shapes and Body Parts, Dies at 65 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z Tens of thousands of flights were canceled this past week because of apocalyptic weather and a breakdown of human systems. Perspective | We’ve lost our luggage, and our minds 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z We talk over Zoom, Crudup speaking in whole articulate paragraphs, enthusiastic and with the manner of someone absolutely delighted with life, even though we’re talking apocalyptically. Billy Crudup: ‘Life is hard. It’s filled with grief, confusion, unpredictability … ' 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z The ecological event with which she ends the novel is a coup de theatre which offers an apocalyptic glimpse of the point where all journeys – and all stories – end. Literature of journeys: Questions of Travel by Michelle de Kretser 2013-07-15T11:56:45Z “Revanchist” preserves the sweeping drama of Christ’s style, diving into hyperpop excess and apocalyptic delirium. Trance Music Is Coming Back. Evian Christ Is Part of the Revival. 2023-10-23T04:00:00Z Don't worry that humanity is plunging headfirst towards an apocalyptic abyss! Is Frankie Boyle actually funny? 2010-12-19T00:06:27Z Cosmopolis is not intended to be a realist movie in the conventional sense, but the problem is that DeLillo's highly charged language is here rendered into a callow sort of apocalyptic prose-poem-speak. Cannes 2012: Cosmopolis – review 2012-05-25T11:16:33Z This solid documentary is one of the first bandwagon-chasers, recapping the beginnings of Imperial Japan's apocalyptic rampage across Asia. Ask the Chancellors | Blood and Oil | How to Win An Election | Glee and more | Watch this 2010-03-29T05:45:00Z Among Dr. Seuss’s books, “The Lorax” is strikingly apocalyptic and unusually polemic. Perspective | Is Dr. Seuss’s Lorax real? These professors may have solved a 47-year-old mystery. 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z “The election had an apocalyptic feel to it,” says Mr. Thiel, wearing a gray Zegna suit and sipping white wine in a red leather booth at the Monkey Bar in Manhattan. Peter Thiel, Trump’s Tech Pal, Explains Himself 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z Of a Trump move into the White House, which lies at the heart of this inner city, Strauss said: “That is too apocalyptic for me to contemplate.” Obama made D.C. look cool. Will Clinton or Trump make it boring again? 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z Six will be produced by sibling Universal Media Studios, such as the Indian call center comedy "Outsourced" and the apocalyptic thriller "The Event." Network spending shows why free TV isn't dead yet 2010-06-02T16:28:00Z The filmmaker Paul W. S. Anderson has directed Milla Jovovich in no less than four films in the apocalyptic “Resident Evil” franchise, and written two more she starred in. Paul W.S. Anderson and Milla Jovovich: A Marriage Built on Monsters 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z That was the instant when the summer blockbuster became something far more apocalyptic and far less fun. Why are we hooked on films about mass destruction? 2016-06-18T04:00:00Z The art world of today might be mistaken for an apocalyptic vision dredged from his darkest satirical imaginings. Robert Hughes: the greatest art critic of our time 2012-08-07T12:06:48Z Claiming to be "the first exhibition to explore the history of human perception of volcanoes", this display fits perfectly with our 21st-century apocalyptic rediscovery of the Romantic sublime. This week's new exhibitions 2010-07-23T23:06:00Z My first novel "Road out of Winter" features a group trying to make it across the country during an apocalyptic snowstorm. An abusive reckoning for "Buffy," a badass, occasionally feminist show created by a monstrous man 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z Entitled A Natural Order, the series looked at people who, for various reasons – religious beliefs, environmental concerns, apocalyptic visions – have retreated from society to live, as Foglia puts it, "off the grid". Les Rencontres d'Arles 2012 – review 2012-07-07T23:06:03Z Here was a chance for Russell the highbrow to take her on about the apocalyptic crazies on her own side. Russell Brand rules Question Time's clash of the egos 2013-06-21T00:13:16Z As sirens blare outside my Brooklyn window and the headlines grow more apocalyptic by the day, I might start working my way through King’s backlist. Can’t Sleep? Let Stephen King Keep You Company 2020-04-19T04:00:00Z The apocalyptic changes that are coming — bigger storms, higher seas, longer heat waves, more insect-born disease — remain, for now, a task for the imagination. Climate Change and Human History 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z It, more than perhaps any other document, conveyed the apocalyptic mood of the early 1970s through its footage of the Altamont disaster. Remembering Albert Maysles, A Filmmaker Unafraid to Probe Darkness 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z If you add this to the fast-paced, hectic life; high stress; less and less culture in schools, that is quite apocalyptic if you look through one lens. Yannick Nézet-Séguin Will Shake Things Up at the Met Opera 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, his own “childhood ability to get ahead of myself and reason to apocalyptic ends” he sees reinvented in his son, Darragh, as a “kind of apocalyptic riffing,” the media-age glibness of the young. A Stylistically Daring Novel Considers Fundamental Questions 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z She and her colleagues discovered a suburban Milwaukee home overrun with apocalyptic paintings, clay crowns, spindly sculptures delicately constructed from chicken bones and sweetly erotic photographs of the artist’s wife, Marie. Rescuing Artists of Vision 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z The plot in “State of Terror” is ambitious and apocalyptic. Hillary Clinton and Louise Penny Deliver a Page-Turner Part Sly, Part Sweet 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z The more she talks, the angrier she gets, and the more apocalyptic her vision. Patti Smith: punk poet queen 2013-05-25T08:00:00Z His final work, published in 2007, posited that the mimetic competition among nations would lead to an apocalyptic confrontation unless nations could learn to renounce retaliation. René Girard, French Theorist of the Social Sciences, Dies at 91 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z He wants to shake them up and leave them thinking about his genre-defying, surreal apocalyptic thriller. Darren Aronofsky on 'mother!' : 'We want to shake audiences' 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z The best-actor runner-up was Michael Shannon as a man beset by apocalyptic visions in "Take Shelter." Clooney's 'Descendants' leads LA critics awards 2011-12-11T23:22:15Z Last year, their directorial debut, the apocalyptic comedy "This Is the End," earned rave reviews and proved a sizable hit. Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg like that Kim Jong Un doesn't get the joke This, maybe, is the final way in which “Yellowstone” echoes today’s politics: It is apocalyptic. This Land Is His Land 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z Although it’s telling that we have to cite asteroids and epidemics to make recent events seem less apocalyptic, there’s no shortage of candidates for objectively worse years. The Worst Year Ever, Until Next Year 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z The number of Americans caught up in what Mr. Weir described as “an apocalyptic hellscape” is small. The TV Watch: Pillar of Relief Coverage: Americans Reconnected With Anxious Families 2011-03-16T00:33:31Z But while you and I fret over these apocalyptic scenarios, the super-rich are planning their survival. The one percent plans to ride out the end of the world in style 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z And the primal programming evidently harks way back to before the dawn of cinema, because the apocalyptic visions of Hieronymus Bosch are teeming with fish-faced demons and bird-headed imps. Anne Billson 2010-07-15T20:59:00Z We see an anxious child raised to think of life in apocalyptic terms, never more than one mistake away from the mother's descent into darkness. Guardian Angel: My Story, My Britain by Melanie Phillips – review 2013-05-17T06:32:01Z Almost seven months on from the earthquake, Haiti remains in an apocalyptic state. A hip hop president for Haiti? 2010-08-06T11:52:00Z Your first novel was set in an imagined apocalyptic future and was told in third person. “Brilliant and dangerous”: Anna North’s fictional Sophie Stark uses and discards people to make her vérité films 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z A would-be assailant got his head dunked into a vat of French-fry grease at a New Jersey burger joint in Eliza Clark’s apocalyptic drama “Edgewise.” Talking Points From a Year Onstage 2010-12-25T04:00:48Z But in the end Douthat sets aside these apocalyptic worries as the product of a “history-as-morality-play” mentality that assumes punishment must necessarily follow sin. Ross Douthat Has a Vision of America. It’s Grim. 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z Either it's manufacturing Mad Max-style, with the attendant apocalyptic edge, or it's a more optimistic glimpse of sustainable production for the future – you choose. What are the best Designs of the Year? 2012-02-08T14:35:00Z On the hourlong recording, Ms. Bell tells of various little-known but significant figures, using their histories to illuminate what she calls “the apocalyptic foundations of this place.” The Year in Improvised Music: ‘Everything’s Changing. So the Music Should.’ 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z Damon said films were the best vehicle to help humans empathize with each other, adding that despite its apocalyptic tone, “Downsizing” ultimately is an optimistic movie. Shrunken Matt Damon opens 74th Venice film festival 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z If nothing else, those despairing over the apocalyptic tenor of our current moment might take some measure of solace from the realization that the apocalypse has been going strong for four generations now. My streaming gem: why you should watch The Killing of America 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z The “War to End All Wars” claimed an estimated 40 million military and civilian lives — of which nearly 117,000 were American — and left behind apocalyptic devastation. 100 years later: Returning to World War I’s Western Front in France 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z Instead, moviemakers bludgeon viewers, numbing them into quiescence with pictorial monotony punctuated by apocalyptic clamor, with the same repetitive story beats, explosions, close shaves and grindingly unsurprising saves. ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Delivers the Thrills, With a Touch of Humanity 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z Urban Foraging and Dancing on Skates In a summer of near-record heat, widespread drought and crippling power blackouts, you’d be forgiven a few fleeting apocalyptic thoughts. Weekend Miser: Queens County Farm Museum, Foraging Tour With Steve Brill 2012-08-02T19:28:48Z But Super 8 has a gentler vibe: it leavens the apocalyptic threat with the budding bonding of Joel and Alice. Secret's Out 2011-06-02T10:15:00Z “The Cockroach” is so toothless and wan that it may drive his readers away in long apocalyptic caravans. Ian McEwan’s Political Satire ‘The Cockroach’ Offers a Reversal of Kafka 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z This text roars incongruously across Lubbock's imaginary info panel – apocalyptic, alarming, transcendent. Tom Lubbock: the pain and the pleasure 2010-12-13T17:00:00Z The man-out-of-time premise recalls Fox’s New Amsterdam from several years ago; the apocalyptic plot recalls ABC’s unfortunate Zero Hour from this year. TV Tonight: Sleepy Hollow 2013-09-16T09:30:13Z For all the apocalyptic strangeness of his settings — permeable borders, plague addled cities — his stories mold something rich and fundamental from the stuff of prosaic life. In Yuri Herrera's hard-boiled 'The Transmigration of Bodies,' dirty work is providence 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z The work takes its title and tone from the apocalyptic Bible story in which God punitively divides his people into competing nations and tongues. Babel 2010-05-19T20:31:00Z “High-Rise,” published in 1975, is very much a product of its moment, and its vision of apocalyptic decadence has long since taken on a nostalgic coloration. Review: In ‘High-Rise,’ Tom Hiddleston and Class War Hit a Low Point 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z A mother defending and fighting for a child through an apocalyptic wasteland? What our reverence for Pedro Pascal's daddy era says about us 2023-02-10T05:00:00Z Yes, there’s a mother’s gravestone, a vampire duel atop an out-of-control locomotive and an apocalyptic gloom that surrounds a 19th-century Washington. Exclusive First Look ? Official Trailer for Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter 2012-02-13T15:35:39Z And argument raged from the get-go: constant, careening, apocalyptic and at times elevated discourse about real things, vital things, in primary colors, and with passion. The American Past: A History of Contradictions 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z “Here Alone,” which won the Narrative Award, depicts an apocalyptic civilization ravaged by a virus. Tribeca Film Festival Announces Audience Awards 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z Dystopian parables like “The Walking Dead,” where zombies rule the earth, are an increasingly fashionable genre of entertainment, but the degree of apocalyptic pessimism is very different depending on the size of the screen. The Social Split Between TV and Movie Dystopias 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z In this triptych, that past is the history of Germany, recounted in what amounts to an autopsy that traces the apocalyptic 1930s back to the Romantic 19th century. Visconti’s Operatic Autopsy of German History, Restored Anew 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z One might have expected more from the author of “The Leftovers,” a dark, apocalyptic novel that Perrotta transformed into an even darker and more transgressive television series for HBO . The most pleasant novel about pornography you’ll ever read 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z The result is an apocalyptic metaphor, rich in religious, environmental and political undertones. Apocalyptic horror 'mother!' was conceived in five days, director says 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z This is the sort of thing that sends actual goths into fits of apocalyptic frenzy, since they consider their subculture so much more than a fleeting summer beauty look. Goth at 40: The enduring appeal of bleakness and black lipstick 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z In her début novel, “Severance,” Ling Ma had the lethal sense to set her apocalyptic tale in an office building and a mall. More Books We Loved in 2018 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z The apocalyptic seems to be in the air these days as artists contemplate the unthinkable. This week's new exhibitions 2012-02-11T00:05:00Z The most dramatic, of Tottenham on fire and the blackened aftermath, are positively apocalyptic. London burning: history just went sci-fi 2011-08-08T11:46:42Z They are apt to be important, in the way of an apocalyptic prophesy of the actual Habakkuk. Entranced by Donatello 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z The danger, almost apocalyptic, peeks out in the story’s opening lines: Review | In Domenico Starnone’s ‘Trust,’ infidelity takes an unlikely form 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z Like many before him, he notices that Hitler's apocalyptic policies acted out the end of Wagner's Götterdämmerung, in which the world goes up in flames. Hitler and the Nazi Cult of Celebrity by Michael Munn ? review 2012-05-17T12:35:57Z That’s why our multiplexes are filled each year with a cavalcade of big-budget shooter flicks and apocalyptic action fare, both real and fictionalised. Real-life mass shootings: the subject Hollywood dare not touch 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z Pitt stars and produced the apocalyptic thriller based on the book by Max Brooks. 'World War Z' draws massive crowd in NYC 2013-06-18T04:21:08Z So I’m not into everything being apocalyptic, sort of a prophecy. Has former NEA target Ron Athey bled enough for his art? He's back with a new happening at the Broad 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z And the apocalyptic gun battle that he eventually triggers feels fake and without consequence, a particularly odd weakness in a novel whose hero claims, “I just need things to be true.” In ‘The One-Eyed Man,’ Ron Currie has created a character for our times 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z Mr. Morris’s Laylas and Majnuns dance their dramas of love, pain, destiny and death against a vast painting that makes this drama gorgeously apocalyptic. What to Look Forward to in the Fall Dance Season 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z This apocalyptic tale-telling had a clear case to make about the promiscuous cultural mixing that had been rife in the previous half decade. Why we won’t let Charles Manson die 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z A recently released special by George Carlin, “I Kinda Like It When a Lotta People Die,” was a welcome reminder of his apocalyptic tendencies. A Year When Death Loomed in the Laughter 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z His best films as a director express a genuine sensibility: a somber, apocalyptic vision belied by some of the more lurid titles in his filmography. DVDs: The Apocalypse Served Straight Up 2011-01-30T02:13:01Z An “apocalyptic” scenario for the most popular type of banana may be unfolding in Latin America. Banana-targeting fungus may cause 'apocalyptic scenario' for the fruit 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z But this apocalyptic battle begins as the product of a sinister marriage of draconian politics, corporate greed and the Faustian bargain hidden within promises of "security." Like 2020, the Dr. Who special "Revolution of the Daleks" is dark 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z An apocalyptic threat is averted and the status quo is restored. The Trump era is posing some major challenges for thriller novelists 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z The vibe was a mix of Burning Man, a Renaissance Fair and an apocalyptic religious fantasy. How to Prepare Now for the Complete End of the World 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z An increasingly apocalyptic scenario unfolds as the spikes fall across the world. Cloudy with a chance for terror in Joe Hill’s ‘Strange Weather’ 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z Subtitled "an imaginary History of the end of the World from 1954-20XX," this apocalyptic, multimedia venture springs from an eclectic ensemble, the Irrealist Theatre. New works pepper Seattle stages this month 2010-08-05T20:35:00Z The hope that underwrites the Future Library is, in turn, underwritten by a near apocalyptic sense of doom. This Library Has New Books by Major Authors, but They Can’t Be Read Until 2114 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z When he touches it, Mike burns his fingers; when he lifts the lid, a blinding light emerges, accompanied by an apocalyptic howl. Video: An Influential Director, Two Distinct Directions 2011-07-02T01:23:02Z In his work of literary criticism, “The Sense of an Ending,” Frank Kermode wrote about the relationship between literary endings, character deaths and the longstanding human fascination with apocalyptic fantasies. The End of Endings 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z Cable TV news provides the apocalyptic backdrop for Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company’s jarring new production of “The Arsonists,” a 1950s political warning that hasn’t burned out yet. Review | ‘The Arsonists’ at Woolly dramatizes the modern world on fire 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z “Back then, the city was apocalyptic. When I first watched ‘Mad Max,’ I thought the wasteland Mel Gibson braved appeared like an upgrade in comparison.” Roger Bennett spent his British boyhood fixated on ‘Miami Vice’ and the Chicago Bears — then lived his own American Dream 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z We’re in this moment in time where we are thinking again very apocalyptically. Why Thornton Wilder Matters in the Trump Era 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z He’s best known for The Garden of Earthly Delights – which tells the story of humans who give into their temptations and are judged and ultimately punished in an apocalyptic setting. The Complete Guide to All Westworld's Many References 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z Instead, the unnamed narrator emerges to find himself alive and alone in the world, after an apocalyptic ambiguity he refers to as “the Event.” It’s the End of Humanity. Maybe It’s for the Best. 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z But check out the apocalyptic Top 20 hit “A Hazy Shade of Winter,” first released in 1966 before appearing on the 1968 album “Bookends,” for a missing link between Motown and punk rock. Hal Blaine: Listen to 12 Essential Songs 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z Real people require additional dimensionality – and here, at last, is an apocalyptic fantasy that strives to give us that along with its monsters. Have hope for "The Last of Us," a drama about enduring at the end of the world, not just surviving 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z Traveling across a war-torn, apocalyptic landscape, the circus troupe is beset by troubles. Review | Clowns are creepy. Let's talk about horror, science-fiction and fantasy books that make the most of circus settings. 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z Tales of police harassment and creeping surveillance culture shared space with pen drawings of the record industry's complicity with the international arms trade and monologues steeped in an apocalyptic eschatology. Welcome back Godspeed You! Black Emperor 2010-04-14T09:07:00Z And perhaps they belong to their apocalyptic age. Alternative Guide to the Universe – review 2013-06-15T23:05:34Z In New York, the Museum of Arts and Design just opened an exhibit of apocalyptic ceramics by Los Angeles’s Sterling Ruby. In London, Collectors Get Fired Up for Ceramics 2018-10-06T04:00:00Z We are always mentally skipping between a nostalgic landscape, where we have plenty of energy to waste on the internet, and an apocalyptic one, where it’s too late to do anything. Apocalypse When? Global Warming’s Endless Scroll 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z Then an apocalyptic zombie Rosebud Motel for Christmas? Seattle’s ‘Schitt’s Creek’ Rosebud Motel is back on Queen Anne — with new additions 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z His predictions for world health are apocalyptically pessimistic. Robert Lustig: the man who believes sugar is poison 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z Skynet has grown bored of killing humans in a genocidal extravaganza and decides to finish the stragglers off in one last apocalyptic push. Terminator Salvation recap: McG gives us a robotic sequel with added stupidity 2013-07-12T11:20:00Z His 1954 horror novel "I Am Legend" is considered a landmark work in the genre, ushering in zombies and apocalyptic themes to post-World War Two America. Science fiction author Richard Matheson dead at 87 2013-06-25T00:21:27Z Until last night’s episode, The Walking Dead has existed in the society you’d expect in first couple of years after an apocalyptic event. The Walking Dead Watch: The Governor Commeth 2012-10-29T14:54:06Z The grand chronicle even evokes Thomas Cole, whose 19th century apocalyptic paintings "The Voyage of Life" and "The Course of Empire" took wild Christian journeys through abundance, ruin, wilderness and rebirth. Matthew Barney's 'River of Fundament'? Well, it's certainly big 2015-09-26T04:00:00Z In a darkened space at the end, a video of a burning car by the Danish collective Superflex brings things to a satisfying, apocalyptic conclusion. Phong Bui Curates ‘Bloodflames Revisited’ 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z America has long been a hothouse of apocalyptic sects and self-proclaimed saviors, “overrun with messiahs,” the Methodist minister Charles Ferguson wrote in 1928. A Tour Through the ‘American Messiahs’ of Our Past 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z Prince Rama's self-referential sleeve Prince Rama's apocalyptic disco album cover is not an awful Top of the Pops sleeve but a knowing reference to those old pieces of tacky magnificence. The worst album sleeves of 2012? Our art critic thinks they're fine ... 2012-12-21T14:50:27Z He spoke of humanity’s “apocalyptic battle” with Earth’s despoilers. Robert Kennedy Jr.’s belief in autism-vaccine connection, and its political peril You’ve just narrowly avoided an apocalyptic political discussion with your opinionated uncle, the dirty dishes are piled high and you’re too full to move. What to Watch Over Thanksgiving 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z There is, indeed, an apocalyptic thread running through the glory of "Ormolu." Seattle artists Linda Davidson and April Surgent: mosaic mavericks 2010-12-09T20:44:00Z When the outdoor dining program turned most of the city into a street party in the summer of 2020, Midtown was apocalyptically quiet. Going Back to Eat in Midtown, Where the Main Dish Is New York, New York 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z Leonardo drew them toward the end of his life, when his head was filled with apocalyptic visions of torrential floods destroying whole towns and even mountains. Jasper Johns Still Doesn’t Want to Explain His Art 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z But this apocalyptic fiction almost became fact in 1983, averted only by the doubts of a single Soviet Union officer. Review: ‘The Man Who Saved the World’ Recounts a Cold War Near Miss 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z So, in a major case of trading up, SNL booted and replaced him with Jack White, who performs an apocalyptic blues ballad seemingly written directly in response to these troubled times. Saturday Night Live: Jim Carrey, Mike Pence and a very pesky fly 2020-10-11T04:00:00Z This peculiarity that we are now experiencing, the nearest thing to a world war, is the key theme in many of Shakespeare’s plays and Jacobean dramas, of old ballads, apocalyptic paintings and morality tales. Paul Theroux Recalls a Fear-Filled Lockdown 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z Anyone acquainted with Mr. Ridley’s plays, which include the apocalyptic shocker “Mercury Fur,” understands that bad things happen to good people in his world. Review: ‘Radiant Vermin,’ Newlyweds on a Dodgy Path to a Dream House 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z It is not Beethoven’s funeral march or Ravel’s apocalyptic waltz. Review: Valery Gergiev Galumphs Through Schubert 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z The Argentine apocalyptic horror film "Phase 7" opens Wednesday at Pacific Place as part of AMC's "Bloody Disgusting Selects Night Terrors" series this season. At A Theater Near You: Harry Potter marathons, Kubrick fest, 'Giselle' 2011-07-07T19:26:03Z In an area called Big Lagoon, trees stripped bare and topped by Katrina’s winds present an apocalyptic vision, except that ospreys built big stick nests atop them, with parents sharing duty sitting on eggs. An Untamed Island Meets Its Match 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z But what he meant by “messiah” has to be understood within the broader context of his apocalyptic proclamation. Did Jesus think he was God? New insights on Jesus’ own self-image 2014-03-23T17:00:00Z And come winter, when frigid Siberian fronts rumble with moisture from the Sea of Japan, snow as fine as air falls in apocalyptic proportions. 12 Months of Skiing, From Chile to China 2012-12-07T17:07:45Z The trio calls its music “apocalyptic space funk”. Playing outside the box 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z While some people might be able to process a news cycle full of suicide, racial violence, and apocalyptic climate change with analytical distance, I’ve felt personally overwhelmed with hopelessness and shame. The media’s obsession with Robin Williams’ death made my own depression worse 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z “I was struck by this apocalyptic upside-down vision of the banal and cheap ‘nice, fake and cozy’ interior of the overturned ship,” he writes in an accompanying artist’s statement, sounding like a more professorial Warhol. Art Review: Thomas Hirschhorn Exhibitions at Gladstone and Dia 2012-09-27T21:44:23Z But the collection, I think, takes the tendency too far: less than half the pieces are set in Britain, and two of those are in apocalyptic variations thereof. Best of Young British Novelists 4, edited by John Freeman – review 2013-04-16T14:14:05Z It is the quintessence of German Renaissance art: every mountain a colossus, every ray of sun an apocalyptic beam of fire from heaven, every cloud a glimpse of the infinite. Why Albrecht Altdorfer's masterpiece gives me nightmares 2010-05-27T13:27:00Z And a world government, lest we forget, is an apocalyptic prospect to a hell of a lot of people. Class decides everything 2012-06-24T16:00:00Z But the muffled sounds of television and radio reports on the storms — and of sirens from the streets — beautifully evoke the way in which the whole world seems apocalyptic after a personal tragedy. Review: What the Crow Knows in ‘Grief Is the Thing With Feathers’ 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z The enemies of Salafist Muslim militants are essential to engage, if the cult's apocalyptic endgame is to unfold. The Mosul Museum video from Islamic State could be a staged drama 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z Her note advertised the book as “a thriller with big themes, a sophisticated apocalyptic novel: think ‘The Stand’ meets ‘The Road.’ The Passage of Justin Cronin 2012-10-07T07:00:05Z But Hitler himself ultimately lost faith in the Germans, inviting his nation’s apocalyptic self-destruction in what Ullrich calls a “staged exit.” Hitler and the Holocaust 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z Even his cobb salad —boring! disappointing! sad! — reflects a certain grim apocalyptic portent. “Tell Me How This Ends Well”: Tricky gods, sex slaves and patricidal Jews 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z The horse now refuses to work, or to drink, and the old man and younger woman, stricken with dismay, receive disturbing news from a neighbour about an approaching apocalyptic breakdown. The Turin Horse – review 2012-05-31T20:30:03Z Having consulted the script, I realise we missed only the final few lines of a domestic drama that, like many plays in these apocalyptic times, is about the impossibility of a future. The Garden | Theatre review 2010-03-26T23:30:00Z Sonia’s father is North African and her mother is French, but both are atheists, and both are at a loss to understand their daughter’s susceptibility to an apocalyptic vision of Islam. A New Film About Young French Women Drawn to Jihadism 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z The visuals lull us dreamily, gliding over mile after mile of glossy green treetops before catching a glimpse of mine-scarred landscape, which has its own kind of apocalyptic beauty. Film review: Petropolis 2010-05-13T22:30:00Z With floods, fires and widespread panic, things are getting downright apocalyptic in the final trailer for "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1," the opening salvo of the two-part finale to the blockbuster franchise. 'Hunger Games: Mockingjay' final trailer: Katniss sends a message 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z So Linton Kwesi Johnson's sober, precise reflections on racial unrest 30 years ago were not crisis music; the Ruts' apocalyptic Babylon's Burning was. Why the Specials' Ghost Town is still the sound of a country in crisis 2011-08-09T15:42:04Z Another network that has concentrated on doing a small number of things noisily – BBC3 – also performed far beyond expectations with victories for the sitcom Him and Her and the apocalyptic drama In the Flesh. Baftas 2014: was this the BBC's worst-ever year? 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z Today’s young readers, inundated as they have been recently by violent apocalyptic books, probably cannot imagine the effect William Golding’s novel had on the innocent and introspective girl that I was then. Their Inner Beasts: ‘Lord of the Flies’ Six Decades Later 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z This 1971 comedy of apocalyptic urban aggravation reflects a deteriorating America more consistent with the Bob Dylan song "Everything is Broken," than with Simon's more familiar snappy/sentimental Broadway hits of the 1970s and '80s. Review: 'Prisoner's' downsized predicament seems all too familiar 2011-05-07T03:30:06Z It's then that I recognize the place from scenes of the apocalyptic movie 2012. Tour the San Andreas Fault 2010-08-12T16:40:00Z Born and raised a Jehovah's Witness, he was steeped in the faith's apocalyptic visions. Author Scott Cheshire on his debut 'High as the Horses' Bridles' 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z Beyond the apocalyptic plot, the book delves into interpersonal relations, how the Japanese might cope with the end of their world and how dispersed survivors might fare in willing host countries. Sakyo Komatsu, Japanese Science Fiction Writer, Dies at 80 2011-08-10T16:25:10Z It’s a reassuring primer for understanding human behavior, which might come in handy as you gird yourself for your next trip through that apocalyptic hellscape once known as Whole Foods. Perspective | What to watch when you’ve seen everything else? Oh, now you want to hear from the TV critic. 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z An apocalyptic mindset is somehow endemic to southern California and particularly to Los Angeles. Battle of Los Angeles: San Andreas just the latest film to kick the crap out of LA 2015-05-23T04:00:00Z The film begins in an efficiently established atmosphere of sunlit social decay and unspecified apocalyptic dread. DVDs: Sinister Doings in Losey?s ?These Are the Damned? 2010-04-04T03:00:00Z She sings apocalyptic lyrics over a foreboding minor key motif. ArtsBeat: Adele Releases New Bond Theme Song 2012-10-05T15:42:11Z It includes Frost’s two most frequently memorized poems, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” and the apocalyptic “Fire and Ice”: “From what I’ve tasted of desire/ I hold with those who favor fire.” Review | The copyright has expired on thousands of books. Here are the best ones to read. 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z Fueled by an apocalyptic clatter of percussion and brass, Schmitt’s full-throated choral writing is perfectly suited to a chorus this size. Review | Choral Arts Society performs three rarely heard works 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z “There was a way in which Trump was funny, so you could be apocalyptic and funny at the same time. It’s a strange combination, but it’s somehow very powerful psychologically.” Peter Thiel, Trump’s Tech Pal, Explains Himself 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z It tells the story of a man haunted by apocalyptic visions and nightmares. "Beginners," "Descendants," "The Artist" top indie film noms 2011-11-29T17:23:33Z For Harry and his dear, smitten schoolmates Ron and Hermione, mere survival presents the goal in the apocalyptic and very fine series finale, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 2." 'Potter' closes out franchise with a bang 2011-07-13T15:24:00Z Sometimes, on bad days, it doesn't seem as if the apocalyptic world of "The Walking Dead" is that far off. 'Walking Dead' premiere finds little sanctuary against despair 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z Ellie may or may not be the savior of humanity, but she certainly rescues “The Last of Us” from apocalyptic mope. Review: ‘The Last of Us’ Is a Zombie Thriller About Single Parenting 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z It’s tempting to consider the very prevalence of superhero movies, with their apocalyptic dangers thwarted by cults of personality, to be evidence of the widespread craving for a strongman. What the Movies Miss About Trump’s America 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z History is a tale of rapacious conquest and destruction with an apocalyptic ending. Movie Review: Jonathan Demme’s ‘Neil Young Journeys’ 2012-06-28T23:29:53Z The words brought to mind by Anton Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony—“awesome,” “sweeping,” “epic,” “apocalyptic”—have mostly wilted from overuse, which is unfortunate, because the Eighth invites bombast. Finding the Awesome in Bruckner’s Eighth 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z In early chapters, pegged to pre-Dead show dates in California, where Garcia is coping with his fears of a seemingly apocalyptic Cuban missile crisis, the book suffers from messy chronology. How much more is there to know about the Grateful Dead? 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z Soviet missiles were spotted in Cuba, and it took extraordinary diplomatic gymnastics to avert an apocalyptic conflict between the superpowers. Change in U.S. policy toward Cuba dismantles an artifact of the Cold War 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z You know all those apocalyptic reports of lost luggage we’ve been reading recently? Help! My Lost Luggage Wasn’t Delivered for 12 Days. I Want Restitution. 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z But the pictorial outcomes are closer to Brueghel's apocalyptic fantasias, depicting "the order of human chaos", as Walter puts it. Words on the street: Stephen Walter's city maps 2011-02-02T22:29:01Z Partisans for both sides deliver apocalyptic broadsides that manage to be grotesque without sounding all that different from what we hear every day. Review: ‘The Pumpkin Pie Show,’ Night of the Voting Dead 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z We are still looking at dystopian and apocalyptic fantasies, still running from zombies, still watching cities erupt, still fighting over basic human rights. Dystopia, Apocalypse, Culture War: 2018 or 1968? 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z The album has an apocalyptic feel in parts, particularly on tracks such as "Stations of the Cross", which alludes to the New Orleans floods and Bible Belt preachers in Costello's impacted poetry. Elvis Costello 2010-10-16T23:04:00Z It contains a story about how the world was made and how the world will end — an apocalyptic war to end all wars. Film: India?s Epic Poems, Resonating in Modern Lives 2010-07-04T05:11:00Z A soldier from the war outside invades the room, and the play plunges into apocalyptic scenes of brutality. Sarah Kane's debut play Blasted returns 2010-10-24T20:31:00Z True, we’ve not seen much that is likely to change the face of cinema, but then Venice doesn’t send critics into that state of apocalyptic hysteria that grips us all in Cannes. Venice film festival – plenty of punch to disturb the peace 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z They all agree to share the home and, after a night of partying, wake up to a living nightmare of apocalyptic proportions. What to watch on Thursday: ‘Close Enough’ on HBO Max 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z Here's a poem she does about the perils of internships: A talk by the Marxist historian, journalist and activist Neil Faulkner was a highlight of the weekend – enlightening and apocalyptic in equal measure. Tie-dye, graffiti, rebels and geeks – whose Brainchild is this? 2012-07-04T15:14:49Z Set in an apocalyptic landscape, it focuses on the survivors waiting for the end of existence. Frieze fringe: the weekend's best free contemporary art 2010-10-15T14:28:00Z Nichols’ 2011 breakthrough hit, “Take Shelter,” concerns a family man whose apocalyptic visions drive his compulsion to prepare for an imagined peril at any self-destructive cost. ‘Mud’: Roiling in a river of obsession 2013-04-25T00:52:12Z And this was all before Trump promised an apocalyptic rain of “fire and fury” on North Korea on Tuesday, a remark that naturally inspired another cycle of discussion and reporting. On cable, ‘all Trump, all the time’ isn’t going away — the networks are addicted 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z When the pandemic hit, they all “podded up early” and burrowed into their apocalyptic commune life. Brandi Carlile Has Always Seen Herself Clearly. Now It’s Our Turn. 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z The content was enigmatic — sometimes wordless, sometimes poetic — but the evocation of apocalyptic distress was indelible. Diamanda Galás Gives Voice to Unbearable Pain, Once More 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z In “The Iris Fan,” Merry Olde Japan teeters on the brink of an apocalyptic bloodbath. Book review: ‘The Iris Fan,’ a thriller by Laura Joh Rowland 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z The apocalyptic drumbeat of social media gestures at the hopelessness of our situation while supplying a kind of narcotic comfort for it. Apocalypse When? Global Warming’s Endless Scroll 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z What energized the first wave of apocalyptic designers and their following of “Karasu-zoku” or “gang of black crows”? In Praise of Shadows and Light 2010-11-22T12:35:00Z So at the end of a scene in which Hari details apocalyptic prophecies, Goyer asked the episode’s director to keep rolling after Harris finished his lines. Jared Harris Is (and Isn’t) His Father’s Son 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z Guys: he is about to take delivery of the most apocalyptically sophisticated nuclear arsenal on the planet. The stars won’t do the presidential inauguration? Hand it to the family Von Trump 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z On computer screens across the world, the group behind this apocalyptic amnesty announces: “The corporation is under our control. The Angel declares you free.” Book review: ‘Amnesia,’ Peter Carey’s novel about cybercrime 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z The ending is nearly indescribable, a phantasmagorical display of apocalyptic magic realism. ‘I Am Radar,’ by Reif Larsen 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z Renamed Ben Zion, he joins a band of apocalyptic loons who hole up in the subway tunnels beneath Manhattan. The Final Testament of the Holy Bible by James Frey ? review 2011-04-10T04:00:00Z We’ve seen other series about disparate survivors of a particularly apocalyptic event before, and those shows haven’t found enough of an audience to survive, never mind thrive in the way that the AMC drama does. What Makes The Walking Dead the Undead Ruler of TV? 2014-02-25T23:54:38Z War, death, famine and pestilence — the full team of apocalyptic horsemen — have ravaged the land. Review: Out of Africa (and Kansas City) Comes The Good Lie 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z That is the situation faced by Kate in Gregory Burke's apocalyptic comedy, a lunchtime collaboration between the Traverse theatre and the Play, a Pie and a Pint series. Battery Farm | Theatre review 2010-03-17T23:20:00Z I've been thinking about those reactions to that blog, and reflecting on the apocalyptic tone of so much current cultural commentary, typified by Siegel. Apocalypse now? No, but we've lost our cultural way 2010-07-12T10:25:00Z For the poor, the city is almost apocalyptic, its destitution caught in phantasmagoric glimpses. A Gay Mystery Novelist Who Chronicles the Aftermath of AIDS 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z The apocalyptic myth of lemmings driven to mass suicide is conjured as both a cautionary tale and a reported fact of cyclical history. A survey of June Wayne at Pasadena Museum of California Art 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z Just 10 days after the bombing, Soviet emissaries went to the city, where they took photos, retrieved rubble samples and human remains, and then reported to their leaders in Moscow about the apocalyptic conditions. Long After the Bomb, Its Story Finds a New Audience 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z It’s an implicit warning about the dangers of unregulated gun ownership and the power and increasingly apocalyptic tone of Second Amendment fundamentalists. | 'Gun Fight': Looking Down the Barrel of a Debate 2011-04-12T22:15:56Z There is a lot of apocalyptic sentiment in “Murder Most Foul.” Bob Dylan Has a Lot on His Mind 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z This new novel offers up a rich selection of domestic realism, gothic fantasy and apocalyptic speculation, stretching around the world from the Margaret Thatcher era of the 1980s to the Endarkenment of 2043. Review: ‘The Bone Clocks,’ by David Mitchell At first glance the maps may appear as pencil drawings of abstract landscapes or apocalyptic wastelands in gray tones. Cities like you've never seen them before: A Japanese artist's giant 'Diorama Maps' 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z While I’m not sure either party will be putting up any worthy presidential candidates in 2020, instating the popular vote is about more than the short-term apocalyptic scenarios most operatives are freaking out over now. Why doesn’t anyone know we’re incredibly close to replacing the Electoral College with the popular vote? 2017-05-07T04:00:00Z Near the end, in the near future, fires seem to presage increasingly apocalyptic events. Cherokee Women Aim for a Better Life in ‘Crooked Hallelujah’ 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z Even those who binge on apocalyptic splatter movies are going to be rattled by “Mercury Fur,” Philip Ridley’s pitch-dark portrait of the day after tomorrow in the big city. In Philip Ridley’s ‘Mercury Fur,’ It’s the World’s End, and the Party’s Here 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z It moved from contemplation to apocalyptic distortion to a sparse pianissimo before the song itself emerged, with all its odd, plaintive leaps. Music Review: Alternative Guitar Festival at Rockwood Music Hall - Review 2012-01-15T23:43:32Z His actions and stories were deeply abstruse, but epic, apocalyptic. Art Review: ‘Subliming Vessel,’ Drawings of Matthew Barney, at Morgan 2013-05-09T21:05:25Z He explains that he has been working on his screenplay for Endangered Species, a high-concept apocalyptic thriller whose storyline he refuses to reveal. Eli Roth: new blood 2011-07-26T20:45:00Z "Texting is apocalyptic on some level," he muses, when the title of Push The Sky Away's first single, We No Who U R is mentioned. Nick Cave: 'The greatest feat of artistic honesty would be to retire' 2013-02-15T05:39:45Z In all of them darkness beckons, mordantly inviting the beholder to imagine vast apocalyptic landscapes, undefinable events on a cosmic scale. The Tate's Mark Rothko exhibit: a room with a view of the subconscious 2011-03-30T13:58:43Z Jackson gives novel spin to Lear’s resonantly irrational remarks to Johnson’s Gloucester in their apocalyptic Act 4 encounter, but there’s more rhetoric than realism in the old king’s “reason in madness.” A tale of two Lears: Glenda Jackson and Antony Sher scale Shakespeare's mightiest tragedy 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z If anything, Mr. Silver’s notions of kinship as a curse are more baldly stated than usual, without typical apocalyptic embellishments like cannibalism, an encroaching ice age or the trussing up of fallen angels. | 'The Lyons': ?The Lyons,? by Nicky Silver, at Vineyard Theater - Review 2011-10-12T02:05:01Z "Bellflower" does have its apocalyptic elements, but they are deeply personal, not the end-of-the-world scenarios these boys envision. Sitting down with "Bellflower's" creator 2011-08-02T20:03:00Z The multi-episode series centers on an “apocalyptic” storyline and includes a relationship sub plot but is not directly connected to Tinder’s core dating app business, the source said. Exclusive: Tinder breaks into scripted original content, wraps... 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z Some of these scenarios' accompanying sights have recurred frequently to become central to our apocalyptic visual lexicon: planes dropping from the sky, highways choked by lifeless cars or riderless horses. HBO Max's must-watch "Station Eleven" brings comfort and joy after the eerily familiar apocalypse 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z That terror, that first-person sense of a world out of joint, infuses Scorsese’s piece with its energy and its apocalyptic tone. Martin Scorsese Avenges the Auteur 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z The second single from Femme Fatale represents Spears’ most undeniable hit of the 2010s, an apocalyptic electro-pop alarm that hit No. 1 on Billboard’s Dance Club Songs chart. Should Britney Spears Have Won More Grammy Awards? 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z The pair must get help from old allies of their youth — a long-lost computer and a great tree — to stem the tide of destruction brought on by an apocalyptic event known as the Unraveling. Best science fiction and fantasy of 2016 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z “Even more than the film,” Mr. Ross wrote in The New Yorker, the opera “tilts toward the apocalyptic.” Your Guide to the Met Opera’s ‘Exterminating Angel’ 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z In that apocalyptic battle Loki — leading the forces of darkness — will attack “with fierceness and intelligence and glee.” Review | Neil Gaiman’s suspenseful and surprising ‘Norse Mythology’ 2017-02-13T05:00:00Z In concert, the Brahms symphony, Rattle says, comes like a “benediction” after the “apocalyptic music” of the three modernists. Simon Rattle's farewell tour with the Berlin Philharmonic swings into L.A. and Costa Mesa 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z But its emphasis on technology, he said, and a pivotal event "where all these implants malfunction and create massive, almost apocalyptic death," made it a natural fit for an online format. ArtsBeat: Future Shock: Bryan Singer Discusses His New Web Series, 'H+' 2012-07-09T12:50:28Z It’s not easy to identify the protagonist of “Parasite,” an intricately layered, darkly comic class-war thriller from Korean director Bong Joon-ho, who is best known in the English-speaking world for the apocalyptic action hit “Snowpiercer.” "Parasite": A prickly, disturbing class-war thriller — and a signature film of 2019 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z Kimmy spent 15 years underground because she was recruited—forcibly recruited, i.e., kidnapped—into an apocalyptic cult with four other members. “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” is still rough around the edges 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z "An epic, apocalyptic vampire novel set in the near future, where medical experiments have created a plague of vampires", it sounded right up my street. The Passage: a post-apocalyptic vampire tale you can get your teeth into 2010-06-11T08:46:00Z The results so far have been both affecting and unsettling, emotional and apocalyptic. Live(ish), From Someone’s Room, This … Is American Isolation 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z Directed by David M. Rosenthal from a script by Brooks McLaren, it begins the way several apocalyptic movies used to end — with the discovery of a pregnancy. ‘How It Ends’ and ‘No Blade of Grass’: Grim Visions of Tomorrow 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z There's a frenetic, almost apocalyptic feel to the collages, with cars racing down crowded freeways, random fires, iconic Hollywood buildings, spindly palm trees and other dry, brittle foliage. Dustin Yellin adds his mark in L.A. with art that's a 'missile for social change' 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z “As sirens blare outside my Brooklyn window and the headlines grow more apocalyptic by the day, I might start working my way through King’s backlist. He’s good company in the dark.” 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z If the cy près petition is turned down, and the deal falls through, predictions of the consequences range from apocalyptic to euphoric. What you need to know as the fate of the Corcoran Gallery is argued in court Lightning storms igniting an apocalyptic wave of wildfires up and down the West Coast. Wildfires force some growers to test their grapes for contamination, while others sit 2020 out 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z The former is here to launch the Proclaimers-inspired musical Sunshine on Leith, while the latter is screening his apocalyptic war parable How I Live Now. Toronto 2013: Reporter's diary 2013-09-09T07:46:10Z |
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