Taking a look at a list of the 10 highest-grossing films worldwide of all-time, the suspects are usual: James Cameron sits there thrice, as does…
“Arkhitekton” in Greek — “master builder” in English. The world that we humans have created around us is a world of stone; cold, stoic, though…
When the world turned to shit approximately five years ago, satire marched ahead, determined to outpace the banality of lived reality. Old-school broadcasts and appeals…
Eva Victor wants you to know that the cat is okay. “I feel like we should have put out a PSA!” they tell me at…
Fans of Nora Ephron be warned: Materialists has been grossly mismarketed. Fresh off the success of her Oscar-nominated Past Lives, it seemed puzzling that Celine…
Central to Danny and Michael Philippou’s Talk to Me was the idea that the universe doesn’t play fair. In horror movies, promethean punishments are doled…
Over the course of three seasons, I Think You Should Leave has cemented Tim Robinson as a genuinely iconic comedic performer. With episodes under 20…
Not all cinema exists to tell a story. Certain filmmakers may refer to themselves as storytellers, and certain writers on may claim that the story…
“Eat the rich” satires didn’t start under Trump, but it certainly feels like they’re accelerating of late. We’re less than a month removed from the…
Filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino has made, really, one kind of film for the majority of his career: decadent exercises in excess that observe the absurdity of…
Halina Reijn’s Babygirl is aware of the discourse. It’s read all the articles that have been passed around online, it knows what’s considered problematic in…
The linchpin scene of Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist arrives nearly an hour into its 215-minute runtime when Adrien Brody’s Hungarian architect, László Tóth, sits down…
In William S. Burroughs’ novella Queer, Lee takes Allerton, the object of his all-consuming desire, to see Jean Cocteau’s Orpheus. “In the dark theater,” Burroughs writes,…
During an interview with Variety about their latest venture, Heretic, the writer-director duo Scott Beck and Bryan Woods (who rose to prominence for penning A…
The title of A24’s newest tragicomic offering, We Live in Time, recalls the gleeful cliché of romance films from the decade past: The Time Traveler’s…
“We don’t want to scare people,” a director says at the beginning of Aaron Schimberg’s A Different Man. It’s the set of a workplace educational…
The rise of A24 as a production company and distributor has seen with it the public recognition, on Tik Tok and Reddit, of the A24…
Ti West’s 2022 slasher pastiche X was somewhat of a return to form for a guy who keeps trying to make horror films that he…
A mother and daughter’s symbiotic bond fuels the artistic crucible that underlies Janet Planet. Such a description, let alone the title, might indicate a film…
s1e1 – “Pilot” I have been thinking about Robin Wood and playing foxtail in a front yard that smelled like Sugar Maple leaves and garage…