By most reckonings, 2012 was the best year of Jennifer Lawrence’s career. She starred in The Hunger Games, a movie that […]
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Movies — our most precious natural resource. Each week the Friday Movie Pile seeks to explain and analyze the new releases, […]
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Not only are the SXSW programmers an astute bunch of film enthusiasts who scour the globe for the finest in independent […]
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“Growing up can be a little bit scary and weird,” explains Kayla (Elsie Fisher) in one of the YouTube videos that […]
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On Saturday, March 10, every film that screened in The Paramount – SXSW’s premier venue in downtown Austin – was directed […]
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Love, Simon is the first film about a gay teenager’s coming out ever distributed in wide release by a major studio. […]
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The arena. The Pongitron. “How’s that for a bad hit, Team Leader?” The Ball Chase. The music of Guns N’ Roses. […]
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Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time, first published in 1962, is one of the most beloved young adult novels not to […]
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The old clock on the wall tells us it’s Friday. I guess it’s more of a calendar than a clock. Whatever […]
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As I’ve mentioned in previous articles, the 1980s weren’t a great time to be a female. The end of second-wave feminism […]
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In January, Wired magazine released a video that, in their words, “breaks down the history of people miniaturization in movies.” VFX […]
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In 1963, Betty Friedan published her landmark work The Feminine Mystique, which analyzed the dramatic shift in women’s roles in postwar […]
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