Whoever was in charge of deciding what to call each generation of feminism knew what she was doing when she settled on the metaphor of waves: Do what you will, they just keep coming. Well, the next wave has arrived.

The Georgians are building themselves up as a new city on a hill, a beacon of economic liberty in a region that’s rarely known it. They have high hopes to become an example to the world of the power of free markets, a breathtaking example of Friedmanite thinking in the post-communist sphere.

Mike Leigh’s Happy-Go-Lucky suggests that the content of experience—the house you live in, the money you make, the misfortunes that happen to befall you—is far less relevant to happiness than the lens through which experience is viewed. It’s a moral as appealing as it is tough to prove on film.

In the wake of Russia’s incursion into Georgian territory, President Medvedev and Prime Minister Putin have often evinced a deep concern for the peoples of the Caucasus as a justification for their actions. A look at Russian attitudes towards the region throughout history shows they haven’t always been so caring.

Philip Roth sells the movie rights to his 2001 novella The Dying Animal, and Ben Kingsley hits the skins with Penelope Cruz.

On a trip to the infamous Islamic Republic of Iran last month, the author found herself in the midst of a real clash of cultures, being beaten by a crowd of women in chadors and thrown in jail.

Recent challenges to a shaky consensus on nutrition and disease suggest that we need to exercise more skepticism when science and public policy meet.

Maybe it’s fucking that’s in the air, and we just call it “love” because, under ideal circumstances, fucking ends up identified with love, the way coal may become a diamond if conditions are just so. One Catholic guy’s plea for modesty in an age of increasingly meaningless vulgarity.

HBO’s new Iraq war series Generation Kill preserves much of the serrated dialogue that made the original book memorable, but it never really trains its sights on the men behind the M-16s.

High Noon is routinely listed as one of the top American movies of all time. And it is almost universally acclaimed as one of the top three Westerns, if not the best Western ever made. With its transcendent themes of courage and honor, it appeals to people of vastly different political colors for different reasons.

What Sebastian Faulks’ new Bond novel gets wrong.

The films of Jean Luc Godard at the American Film Institute.

Using the internet to advocate for a borderless world.

Does the ultimate chick show have anything for a man?

How the tale of a girl who bears a shockingly located set of fangs upends the revenge-film formula.