Looking back at Silo's core themes and ideas, the 1984 influence seems evident. In both Silo and George Orwell's 1984, the ...

A brand new documentary from director Raoul Peck and producer Alex Gibney is a timely film centered around the writings and warnings of author George Orwell. It warns the “newspeak” of authoritarian ...

The organizations behind Banned Books Week based this year's theme, "Censorship Is So 1984. Read for Your Rights," on Orwell's sobering story to show we may be closer in real life to his dystopia than ...

It’s fitting that Raoul Peck’s latest documentary, “Orwell: 2+2=5,” is hitting theaters across the country during this year’s Banned Books Week. Since its publication in 1949, George Orwell’s ...

Filmmaker Raoul Peck uses George Orwell’s writings to weave together a biographical portrait of the author and a dispiriting picture of power and truth in the modern world in “Orwell: 2+2=5.” He’s ...

The most absurd. You know, it sounds innocent. It even sounds ridiculous. But that's play with your minds. And so that's a regression. And some people think it's, well, I've heard that argument. Well, ...

This week, New York mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo scaled a skyscraper, drove a subway train, and moonlighted as a Broadway stagehand—or at least you might think he had if you didn’t read the fine ...

This week, New York mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo scaled a skyscraper, drove a subway train, and moonlighted as a Broadway stagehand—or at least you might think he had if you didn’t read the fine ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Raoul Peck’s new documentary “Orwell: 2+2=5” reimagines George Orwell’s words for an age of alleged “fake news,” ...

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 ...