Using comedy to address just about any topic relevant to a young twenty-something, Emmanuel and Phillip create videos that touch on modern day subjects like "rachet" behavior, instagram, and hypocrisy in the church.
While there are many films to choose from, the following 10 war films touch on modern warfare (from the First World War onward) and run the gamut of conflicts and human emotions and center on the core issues often at work in the nasty business of war.
The rabbi chanted the Book of Lamentations -- Jeremiah's dirge of unrelenting horror -- briefly touched on modern political problems in the United States and Israel, and closed with the Kaddish.
During a spirited two-hour interview he touched on modern art, social politics and science fiction — among the books he produced for inspection was the dystopian "Ready Player One" by Ernest Cline — as well as music and movies, and movie music.
The course emphasized Roma culture, but it unavoidably touched on modern social issues and preconceptions — like the notion that Roma are a nomadic people who feel at home living in filthy insalubrious camps.
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Smith touches on many modern societal flash points: western aid, mother/daughter relationships, childlessness, international adoption, sex tourism, ambition, race, class, cultural appropriation (the girls watch old minstrel shows; Aimee incorporates traditional Gambian dance moves into her on-stage routine).
In his program note, Glass explained how this opera, originally presented in 2007, had previously barely touched on the modern history of American racial politics, instead focusing on the events leading to Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox in April 1865.
On Thursday, Fox Searchlight Pictures released the first full-length trailer for Wes Anderson's new stop-motion animated film, Isle of Dogs, and it touches on our modern fear of uncontrollable diseases, overpowered leaders, and, worst of all, life without our canine companions.
