Stanley Kubrick's film version of A Clockwork Orange has a suitably complicated legacy. Was his linguistically inventive, ultra-violent adaptation of Anthony Burgess' novel a sobering prophecy of a ...

In 1962 English author Anthony Burgess published the Dystopian-Black Comedy novel entitled A Clockwork Orange. The novel itself was partially written in a Russian-influence argot called "Nadsat" which ...

The only thing Stanley Kubrick ever really wanted to talk about was how men were primates driven by primate urges: the violent acquisition and subsequent hoarding of sex, food, and shelter.

The late film auteur Stanley Kubrick, heralded as one of Hollywood's greatest filmmakers, directed only thirteen feature films during his career. Somewhat surprisingly, all but two of his films were ...

The blog posts I’ve written so far have mostly focused on fairly recent films, such as Twilight or Harry Potter. But today, I want to write about a classic film that used, appropriately enough, ...