Savage Entertainment A new version of Tinto Brass and Bob Guccione’s notorious 1979 film ‘Caligula’ provides a valuable record of one of the most fascinating disasters in cinema history. Jaspreet Singh Boparai 14 Nov 2024 · 30 min read
Megalopolis: Bloated, Outré—and Brilliant Like a Hieronymus Bosch painting, it’s chaos alright—but it’s a dazzling chaos. Ralph Leonard 13 Nov 2024 · 8 min read
All Hail the New Flesh For all its decorative asides about predatory male sexuality, ‘The Substance’ is most coherently understood as a morality tale about the folly of feminist illusions. Charlotte Allen 1 Nov 2024 · 11 min read
Sonny Side Up Al Pacino’s personal life has been a bit of a train wreck, but his new memoir leaves no doubt that acting has been the most important thing in his life. Kevin Mims 28 Oct 2024 · 21 min read
A Joke Too Far? Todd Phillips’s unfairly reviled sequel raises interesting questions about the artistic licence auteurs take with well-known properties. Allan Stratton 24 Oct 2024 · 11 min read
Blonde on Blonde Andrew Dominik’s much-maligned film about the life and death of a screen icon claws through the sentimental myth-making in search of terrible truths. Charlotte Allen 18 Oct 2024 · 32 min read
Tales of Creation and Adaptation The journey of two novels from mind to page to silver screen. Allan Stratton 14 Oct 2024 · 22 min read
A Filmmaker in Spite of Himself Sacha Guitry disdained cinema as an art form, but with a slew of recent Blu-ray releases, his acidic comedies are finally receiving the attention they deserve. Jaspreet Singh Boparai 28 Aug 2024 · 22 min read
Killing for a Quiet Life John Krasinski’s dystopian horror trilogy imagines a biblical plague visited on the din of modernity. Thomas Larson 15 Aug 2024 · 7 min read
Roman Polanski’s ‘Chinatown’ Fifty Years On Chinatown is noir at its bleakest, yet most stylish. Ralph Leonard 13 Aug 2024 · 9 min read
Texas Porn Star Massacres Ti West’s clever and original ‘X’ trilogy is elevated postmodern horror at its finest and its director’s best work to date. Allan Stratton 24 Jul 2024 · 12 min read
Blood, Sweat, and Gasoline The story of Hollywood’s most unlikely blockbuster franchise, Mad Max. Allan Stratton 5 Jun 2024 · 21 min read
A History of Stunts Ryan Gosling’s new film is a love letter to an under-appreciated art. Allan Stratton 17 May 2024 · 9 min read
American Carnage Alex Garland’s spectacular new film ‘Civil War’ is a warning of what can happen to democracies when civil society collapses. Allan Stratton 18 Apr 2024 · 7 min read
Jean-Luc Godard in Retrospect Part II: Fanaticism and Failure (1966–2022) After half a decade of critical adulation, Godard’s career slumped into doctrinaire Maoism, bitterness, incomprehensibility, and irrelevance. It never recovered. Charlotte Allen 16 Apr 2024 · 36 min read
