A collection of 39 posts
Podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with filmmaker Ric Esther Bienstock about her new CBC/BBC documentary, ‘Speechless’—which explores the rise of censorship and mobbings on campus.
The new film 'Project Hail Mary' based on Andy Weir's bestselling novel, celebrates scientific problem-solving on a cosmic scale. There are striking parallels with David Deutsch's radical optimism.
‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ is a Rousseau-esque oikophobic fantasy of evil humans and noble savage aliens.
Stanley Kubrick’s comic masterpiece ‘Dr Strangelove’ remains a potent allegory for our times.
Pasolini's 1964 film reimagines the gospels as fundamentally Jewish stories.
‘Psycho’ deserves recognition as a classic film for the festive season.
In Hereditary and Midsommar, Aster's characters search for their place in the world—and can only find it by embracing evil.
Before Han Solo and Indiana Jones, there was another Harrison Ford, a star of silent cinema.
From the Iliad to Mission: Impossible, creators have wrestled with the question of how much universe-building is too much.
The Blues Brothers (1980) fostered a renewed appreciation of some of the best music America has ever produced.
Despite serious flaws, ‘Captain America: Brave New World’ is much better than Marvel’s recent offerings. Perhaps the franchise may have turned the corner.
Many of the people involved in Uberto Pasolini’s new screen adaptation of Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ are intimidatingly talented. It’s a pity, then, that the film is such a disaster.
Against long odds and in the face of exclusionary casting, Anna May Wong bequeathed us an extraordinary cinematic legacy.
Like a Hieronymus Bosch painting, it’s chaos alright—but it’s a dazzling chaos.
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.