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...
Culture Wind River, Hell or High Water, Sicario: Taylor Sheridan’s American Elegy Trilogy November 14th, 2017 0 There have been few career turnarounds and rapid-fire ascendancies in Hollywood as impressive as Taylor Sheridan’s. A working actor for the last 20...
Movies Report from Beyond Fest 2017 October 16th, 2017 0 Last week was the fifth edition of Beyond Fest, Los Angeles’s most popular genre film celebration. Over the course of 11 days, the historic...
Looking Back Harry Dean Stanton Dissolves into Thin Air September 18th, 2017 0 “It seems like everybody loves Harry Dean!” So said David Lynch last October, as he presented the Vidiots Foundation’s inaugural Harry Dean...
Looking Back David Lynch’s Personal Odyssey in Twin Peaks: The Return September 4th, 2017 0 Twin Peaks: The Return managed to both exceed and confound its viewers’ expectations. This feat is doubly impressive considering how little was...
