Schaumburg, Illinois is a nexus of American suburban living. The Chicago suburb is an affluent village that sits 25 miles outside the city proper; its…
The first 15 minutes of Take Off cite Hegel not once but twice. It goes without saying how unique this aspirational source is within the…
Watching Resident Evil, I thought about choice, the force that presents differently in video games and video game adaptations. In the former, a spectator-player chooses…
Catholicism and adolescence should, at least on paper, be natural bedfellows. One is a boundary-testing time of near-deranged horniness and rife with terrible decisions, whilst…
There is a sort of integrity in making a film as doggedly mediocre as Without Blood. Adapted from Alessandro Baricco’s 2002 novel, Senza Sangue, by…
In 2020, HBO began airing one of the funniest and most significant docuseries in the history of the form, How To With John Wilson, in…
Jonatan Etzler’s Bad Apples takes place somewhere in the United Kingdom, most likely a studio somewhere near Bristol, though it may as well be mistaken…
Aardman Animations has long been the last oddball left in an increasingly homogenized world of American animation. Founded by Peter Lord and David Sproxton over…
The novelist Salman Rushdie never wanted to become the world’s symbol for free speech against oppressive regimes. He just wanted to be a writer, and…
There’s a certain irony to Padraic McKinley’s new film being called The Weight. Set during the Great Depression and starring Ethan Hawke as one of…