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
Jean-Luc Godard in Retrospect Part I: Abstraction Hero (1930–65) A brief five-year period produced nearly all the Godard movies that film aficionados still remember, but even these celebrated works have dated poorly. Charlotte Allen 10 Apr 2024 · 33 min read
The Delta Variant John Landis’s 1978 comedy classic ‘Animal House’ is a time capsule from an era when humor and campus politics were very different. George Case 8 Apr 2024 · 9 min read
Sex and Smashed Steel A look back at J.G. Ballard's ‘Crash’—one of the the 20th century’s greatest and most disturbingly prophetic novels. Benjamin Kerstein 2 Apr 2024 · 25 min read
Mystic Without a Church Werner Herzog’s new memoir provides a look back on the magisterial and occasionally maddening career of a cinematic visionary. Jaspreet Singh Boparai 28 Mar 2024 · 17 min read
93 Years of Shatner A tribute to an irrepressible TV star’s ability to live long and prosper. Kevin Mims 22 Mar 2024 · 21 min read
An Unlikely Cinematic Triumph Efforts to produce a worthy film adaptation of Frank Herbert’s ‘Dune’ seemed doomed to failure—until Denis Villeneuve gave us his two-part blockbuster. Allan Stratton 15 Mar 2024 · 14 min read
