I recently had the opportunity to talk with Thomasin McKenzie, a rising actress who starred in last year’s Leave No Trace and this year’s Jojo Rabbit, in addition to a…
Taika Waititi’s reputation has undergone a major facelift lately. Three years ago, he was mostly known in indie circles—and in his home country of New Zealand—but just a year later,…
Robert Eggers’ 2015 film The Witch (or The VVitch, if you’re into stylized titles) came out at a time when a new genre of horror was emerging: ‘prestige horror’, or…
Maleficent may have been Disney’s final act of good before completing their turn to the dark side. Sure, they can buy enough studios and filmmakers to randomly generate a good…
Film and television are very different mediums. The age of binge streaming has diluted their differences, to an extent—some showrunners now pace their shows as if they were super long…
The protagonist of Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver was almost a villain. Travis Bickle, a working-class man who’s sick of the moral decline of New York City, turned to violence to…
Studios have a hard time marketing James Gray movies. His style errs toward methodical, downbeat, and ruminative—not exactly the kind of thing that makes the big bucks. And so for…
Strippers are extraordinarily talented people. Pole dancing is a fine art and a difficult sport, dealing with strip club clientele takes unlimited patience, and only working nights can wear even…
You’re a serious person, sitting down to see a serious movie. A movie based on a novel—a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, no less! You settle in, readying your mind for high…
A number of book adaptations have been needlessly split into two movies—the final entries of Harry Potter and The Hunger Games come to mind—but if any book needed bisection, it…
Of all the movies coming out this weekend, the documentary about water probably isn’t high on your priority list. But perhaps I can convince you otherwise. Aquarela is the latest…
Representation is a double-edged sword in the entertainment industry, in that it’s deeply necessary but so often handled poorly. Let’s look at queerness in television, for example. The LGBTQ community…
