The painful cost of bringing “Children of Blood and Bone” to screen
My first reaction to the trailer for “Children of Blood and Bone,” Paramount’s lush adaptation of Tomi Adeyemi’s bestselling 2018…
“I Want Your Sex” is deliberately unsexy
Are you having sex? Do you want to be? These days, there are a million different possible answers to either…
Your magical burnout cure is in this Miyazaki film
Throughout July, The Swell is celebrating the lasting cultural inspiration of animator Hayao Miyazaki and the legendary films he created…
Is ChatGPT Health the new WebMD?
For a few days around Christmas, Holly Jespersen, a 50-year-old living in New York, did not feel great. It felt…
Trump’s new foreign aid ban expands his “cruel” agenda on the world
Reproductive rights groups are gearing up for the current Trump administration to implement extensions to the current global gag rule…
Anthony Minghella, 1954-2008 – Salon.com
English writer and director Anthony Minghella has died at age 54, according to various news reports. It’s a sad and…
Kennedy’s attacks on HPV vaccines could cause cancer to rise
Cervical cancer, the fourth most common cancer in women worldwide, kills about 350,000 people annually — but for the last…
Punk pioneer Lenny Kaye reflects back on “the original sin of rock ‘n’ roll”
Punk in the Big Apple is a subject that has been exhaustively—and some might say exhaustingly—documented over the years, yet…
Early pregnancy care declines despite Trump’s pro-birth agenda
The current Trump administration has previously said it’s focused on promoting a “pro-family” agenda. Trump has said that he wants…
It’s not you, it’s the Emmys: Voters have reasons for ignoring your show
Disappointment is standard. Elation? Rare, but it happens. Overall, though, the 78th Emmy Awards nominations yielded a typical slate of…