Scary stories are inherently political. How couldn’t they be? They tap into our greatest fears, and whatever those happen to be […]
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It takes a big man to admit when he’s wrong, and I’m 6’4”, so I admit that I’m wrong a lot. […]
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In the decade after Stonewall, gay culture exploded and thrived in ways previously unthinkable. One filmmaker who covered every facet of […]
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It’s hard to believe now, but there was a time when comic book characters had little to no hope of success […]
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Chantal Akerman was 25 years old when her technically groundbreaking, emotionally devastating, and alternately revered and reviled Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai […]
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With the passing of Stuart Gordon this past March, cinema lost one of its great provocateurs. An agitator and enemy of […]
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The first cut comes a few minutes into the second scene of Sidney Lumet’s The Pawnbroker, and it happens so quickly […]
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It’s tempting, when viewing the early Martin Scorsese short films and mid-length documentaries assembled in the Criterion Collection’s new Scorsese Shorts, […]
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When the semi-annual conversation on female buddy movies resurfaces, there are usual suspects. Thelma and Louise. B.A.P.S. Romy and Michelle’s High […]
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The 1990s were a strange time for filmmakers attempting to understand the Internet. As the technology went mainstream, with more families […]
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In 1998, Stanley Kubrick accepted the D.W. Griffith Award from the Director’s Guild of America. In his acceptance speech, he compared […]
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When Grand Central Publishing released a new edition of the novel First Blood in 2000, author David Morrell penned an introduction, […]
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