Looking Back Internal Divisions: West Berlin in Possession and Suspiria November 13th, 2018 0 Much has been said about the relationship between Luca Guadagnino’s new remake of Suspiria and Dario Argento’s 1977 original. Guadagnino has...
Film Fests Report from Beyond Fest 2018 October 11th, 2018 0 Los Angeles’s biggest genre festival, Beyond Fest, just wrapped its sixth and most ambitious program. Fifty films played at Hollywood’s historic...
Movies Spike and Quentin Feud, But Their Movies Overlap August 23rd, 2018 0 Sorry to Bother You writer-director Boots Riley recently took to social media to criticize Spike Lee’s new movie BlacKkKlansman — based on the...
Looking Back The Last Controversy of Christ August 10th, 2018 0 Thirty years ago this month, the world saw the release of one of the most divisive movies ever made: Martin Scorsese’s The Last Temptation of...
Looking Back Here I Come to Save the Day: The Great White Avenger in Cinema July 17th, 2018 0 From The Searchers to You Were Never Really Here, the "captivity narrative" is one of America's strongest tropes When Lynne Ramsay’s You Were...
Looking Back The Barely Fictionalized Movie Versions of Philip Roth May 30th, 2018 0 This month saw the passing of Philip Roth, as important — and no less controversial — a figure to the field of literature as Ty Cobb was to...
Looking Back Mary Shelley and Other Speculative Literary Biopics May 23rd, 2018 0 The English Romantic writer Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley lived about as cinematic a life as one could, filled with historic achievement, tortuous...
Looking Back Redbelt: David Mamet’s Last Stand May 9th, 2018 0 This month marks the 10th anniversary of David Mamet’s mixed-martial-arts thriller Redbelt. In the intervening years, Mamet — the preeminent...
Looking Back The Death of Stalin and the Canon of Dystopian Farce April 17th, 2018 0 'If you think this country’s bad off now, just wait till I get through with it.' — Rufus T. Firefly, Duck Soup Armando Iannucci's...
Looking Back Isle of Plague Dogs: The Animated Works of Wes Anderson and Martin Rosen March 21st, 2018 0 Animation saved Wes Anderson from self-parody. By the time he released his fifth feature, the exotic Indian travelogue The Darjeeling Limited...
Movies 'Perhaps I’m Looking For Trouble': The Rebellious Women of Phantom Thread and Lady Macbeth January 30th, 2018 0 Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest film, Phantom Thread, has the director working in full Gothic romance mode. Set in post-war London and tracing the...
Looking Back Zach Vasquez Says Don’t Forget: Colossal December 26th, 2017 0 Colossal seems destined to become a cult film, one that we’ll look back on and wonder how audiences missed it. Though it received its share of...
Looking Back Zach Vasquez Says Don’t Forget: I, Olga Hepnarová December 26th, 2017 0 With all due respect to troubled figure skaters from the ‘90s, if you see only one I, movie this year, make it I, Olga Hepnarová. Like the more...
Movies A Good Man Is Hard To Find: Grace and Forgiveness in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri December 4th, 2017 0 Lapsed Catholic though he is, Martin McDonagh, the Irish (by way of London) playwright-turned-filmmaker loves to explore the interconnected themes of...
Culture Remember, Remember, These Five for Noirvember November 15th, 2017 0 November is the month wherein movie lovers, programmers, and critics turn their attention to the genre of film noir — Noirvember as it’s come to...
