With his Best Adapted Screenplay win for Call Me by Your Name, James Ivory received some long-overdue recognition from the Academy. (He also became, at 89, the oldest winner in any category in Oscar history.) His prior nominations – all in the...
The arena. The Pongitron. “How’s that for a bad hit, Team Leader?” The Ball Chase. The music of Guns N’ Roses. The liberation of Pong City One.
Any of these phrases instantly brings to mind one of the most notorious cult films of all...
As I’ve mentioned in previous articles, the 1980s weren’t a great time to be a female. The end of second-wave feminism in the ‘70s left many Americans believing equality among the sexes was “solved.” As author Susan Faludi described,...
In January, Wired magazine released a video that, in their words, “breaks down the history of people miniaturization in movies.” VFX Supervisor Jamie Price covers films through the decades depicting humans who have been shrunken down or were...
In 1963, Betty Friedan published her landmark work The Feminine Mystique, which analyzed the dramatic shift in women’s roles in postwar America and helped launch what came to be known as second-wave feminism. Women were suddenly marrying...
Nothing sells me on a movie faster than a title song that just reiterates the plot in a catchy way, and they don’t come much catchier than the title song of the only movie the founder of Motown Records ever produced.
Berry Gordy’s The Last...
The greatest Method actors create visceral moments through raw talent and polished techniques. Throughout his film career, Marlon Brando delivered numerous iconic lines, beginning with “Stella!” in Elia Kazan’s A Streetcar Named Desire...
Before the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy, the director most commonly associated with getting down was Adrian Lyne. His films — Foxes (1980), Flashdance (1983), 9 1/2 Weeks (1986), Fatal Attraction (1987), Jacob's Ladder (1990), Indecent...
This article contains spoilers for Hellraiser, Hellbound: Hellraiser II, and Hellraiser: Hellseeker.
Since it was coined by Carol J. Clover in her book Men, Women, and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film, the term “final girl” has...
“There is something about this middle-aged bald guy that is thrilling!” A Curb Your Enthusiasm joke that’s as much about middle-aged bald guy Larry David as the show resting on his slumped shoulders, it also calls into question the unlikely...
The music video as it was known in its heyday is now all but dead, reborn as online videos that roam the halls of YouTube and Tidal Exclusives. At their peak, however, they were incredibly effective short films-cum-advertisements, selling records...
From the moment the project was announced, the easy conclusion to jump to was that The Shape of Water was Guillermo del Toro’s sneaky way of making a spin-off about Abe Sapien, the amphibious man played by Doug Jones in both of del Toro’s...
With the premiere of the Paramount Network’s Waco miniseries alongside continued controversy over Quentin Tarantino’s upcoming Manson-era film, there’s never been a better time to revisit the allure of the cult. But where real-life leaders...
Editor's note: After we'd published two of these columns, we discovered that Noel Mellor already has a well-established podcast and book called "Adventures in VHS." We chose the name at the last minute and neglected to check whether anyone was...
“You know, Hollywood has us convinced that it takes a hundred million dollars to make a quality piece of art, and that’s a piece of crap statement. I think you just saw that, right?”
As labels for filmmaking styles, movements, or...
