At this point, it sometimes feels like a cliché or reductive to say that our modern world is like 1984, George Orwell’s classic dystopian novel released in 1949, or to say things have become ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Orwell: 2+2 = 5 There are two ways to think about “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” the great dystopian novel of totalitarianism that George ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s no great feat to tie 1984 or Animal Farm to the fascism of Spain or Germany. But Peck, with rapidfire examples of the ...

When I was growing up, the lessons of 1984 – the dystopian novel by George Orwell – were all thought to pertain to the Soviet Union. Big Brother was Josef Stalin – controlling the thoughts of his ...

In the last months of his life, writer George Orwell used the final embers of his energy to complete a novel that would become a classic of 20 th century literature: 1984. More than 75 years after its ...

Raoul Peck’s new documentary Orwell: 2+2=5 opens with a credit sequence featuring images of what appear to be microscopic larvae wriggling across the screen. The message seems clear: something ...

His novel “1984” captured the tactics of totalitarianism back in 1949. A startling new documentary from Raoul Peck looks at Orwell’s life. By Manohla Dargis When you purchase a ticket for an ...

On paper, it’s one of the simplest math problems in the world: 2+2. If you’re counting something, like screws at the hardware store, it’s pretty straightforward. But the lines blur in other contexts.

Ross Bonaime is the Senior Film Editor at Collider. He is a Virginia-based critic, writer, and editor who has written about all forms of entertainment for Paste Magazine, Brightest Young Things, ...

The film is too interested in the brutality of totalitarianism to fully explore Orwell's great theme: the sinister unreality of it. Yet that’s not ultimately the reason “Nineteen Eighty-Four” remains ...