In this short essay, Walter Metz analyzes the connections between Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street and Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained.

Its dichotomy of dystopian elements and deep, emotionally probing themes, all told against a backdrop of a world on the brink ...

(THE CONVERSATION) At the end of Katsuhiro Otomo’s dystopian Japanese anime film “Akira,” a throbbing, white mass begins to envelop Neo-Tokyo. Eventually, its swirling winds engulf the metropolis, ...