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Hero and villain: who is who? LISTEN TO THIS ARTICLE (4.21 min.) It is one of those few days that you don’t forget: everyone knows what they were doing when the planes hit the World Trade Center, on that clear sunny day that made TV imag...

Old outlaw in the wilderness: gloom revisionist tale of a hero who was no hero https://youtu.be/tlSDDuWxO_0?si=L-MR21clr46XAjvn Spoiler: Robin Hood is going to die. In bluntly titled drama The Death of Robin Hood, that might be exactly w...

Epic of men, monsters and moral metamorphosis: enough to call it a masterpiece? https://youtu.be/Sk6LZrA2JSQ?si=HIUUQp8_y8DKnRwL LISTEN TO THIS ARTICLE: I strangely agree with Peter Bradshaw's review - Nolan goes god-tier with breathtaki...

My cover/live versions of some of the ballads that shaped the country's ambiguous history My personal (in progress) contribution and performance to 250 years of American popular culture, songs 'that shaped us', written and/or performed b...

Authentic material da sfruttare come approfondimento linguistico. (La Bacca di Lauro n. 72/2026, periodico dell'università UteMo) Come per la musica, i film clip in originale sono utili per introdurre argomenti di attualità, prospettive ...

Mentre il gap tra musica e letteratura è oggi ormai superato, rimane quello della lingua. Ma il terzo incomodo offre una splendida opportunità per la didattica: quella di usare le canzoni d’autore come parte dello studio della lingua.

Sinners (video review) Anderson updates Thomas Pynchon for the era of ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) roundups, pitting shaggy revolutionary Leonardo DiCaprio against cartoonish forces of reaction https://www.theguardian.com/fi...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinners_(2025_film)#Plot Post Great Depression age, Deep South location, Delta Blues and Devil's music, Blacks vs KKK Whites in segregation milieu, magic, voodoo and supernatural elements, Black pride and ju...

LISTEN TO THE ARTICLE There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for...

Looking forward to the American elections, part 1. The subtitle of my book about Berlusconi’s Italy reads The all-Italian story of the man who gave us Trump. In the book I write that “Trump may be more powerful, and more dangerous, than ...