Looking Back Redbelt: David Mamet’s Last Stand 05/09/18 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 04/17/18 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 03/21/18 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 01/30/18 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 12/26/17 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 12/26/17 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 12/04/17 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 11/15/17 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 11/14/17 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 10/16/17 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 09/18/17 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 09/04/17 0 Twin Peaks: The Return managed to both exceed and confound its viewers’ expectations. This feat is doubly impressive considering how little was...
Looking Back The War on Coal: John Sayles' Matewan at 30 08/28/17 0 This month marks the 30th anniversary of John Sayles’s Matewan, an American classic that fell through the cracks upon release and remains...
Culture Charles Manson and the Current Fascination with the 1970s Violence and Cinema 08/15/17 0 When it was announced that Quentin Tarantino’s next film would involve the Manson Family murders, the news was met with excitement, outrage,...
Looking Back Alternate History Lessons in White Man’s Burden 08/03/17 0 When HBO announced its greenlighting of Confederate, a new series from the show-runners of Game of Thrones, the news was met with a barrage of...
