The past is very present in writer/director Jang Jae-hyun’s Exhuma (South Korea, 2024). There is familial and imperial history reaching back to World War II and even further. And if there are not precisely demons in the film, well, there are things that are close enough.
At Snow Pavilion, Xueting Ni writes about how Chinese Xian became fairies in European thought. “The modern idea of the fairy, buzzing round the bottom of your garden on butterfly wings, dressed in couture petals, you know, that Victorian and Edwardian creation, aligned historically with this increased interest […]
Not so very long ago, I was talking with a friend about science fiction’s infatuation with two things: empire and dystopia. Space opera and military science fiction has a fetish for empire, but we’ll deal with that some other time. Dystopian science fiction, those stories of humanity’s struggle […]
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