For about half an hour or so, Raoul Peck's documentary "Orwell: 2+2=5" is amazingly restrained in the way it deals with author George Orwell, his seminal dystopian novel "1984" and its connections to ...

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. On January 8, 2021, Donald Trump Jr. took to X (then Twitter) to declare that his father’s suspension from the platform was a sign ...

After winning the top prize for documentary at the Cannes Film Festival last year for Ernest Cole: Lost and Found, director Raoul Peck returns to the festival in 2025 with Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5, a film ...

In the new documentary “Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5,” filmmaker Raoul Peck explores the writer George Orwell’s life and how his experiences informed his ideas and his writing. The film intersperses clips from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This week, New York mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo scaled a skyscraper, drove a subway train, and moonlighted as a Broadway ...

There are two ways to think about “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” the great dystopian novel of totalitarianism that George Orwell wrote on the Scottish isle of Jura and published in 1949, six months before ...

Kanye West discussed his decision to support the "Make America Great Again" (MAGA) movement in the new In Whose Name? documentary. "I'm literally inside of current slavery and bein' like accosted by ...

“Orwell: 2+2=5” led all films with seven nominations for the 2025 Critics Choice Documentary Awards, which announced its nominees on Tuesday morning. The documentary by Raoul Peck (director of the ...