Mad Men’s sojourns to the West Coast have an otherworldly and surreal feel to them.
It’s hard to know what to see sometimes when you don’t read reviews in advance, since trailers can be so unreliable.
And the grown-ups are even better.
Things get interesting when filmmakers and actors reminisce about how their movies got made.
By the end of this majestically powerful film, we don’t just understand the need for art.
The film mixes documentary-style realism with fictional techniques to create a gripping story with an operatic sense of danger and dread.
The media is a business, and its business is telling stories: the more simplistic the better.
Our third International podcast is here!
It’s a pretty good B movie, but it would have been a better one if it hadn’t tried to be more.
The Gleaners and I is a lightfooted meditation from an aging master so comfortable with her medium that her work feels like play.
All invasion stories are allegorical, which makes this pair of movies a perfect vehicle to debut this series of essays.
Regardless of what you may think of Ken Russell’s movies, the English iconoclast filmmaker is without doubt a true original.
Watching the film’s backstabbing bunch exploit, betray, and reject one another feels painful and pointless.
In this episode we watch both Don and Roger humiliate themselves, yet for seemingly opposite reasons.
I still recoil in pleasurable fear every time that shark rears up out of the water.
By Salt. But, but, but…the dog.
Davies’s irreverence is exhilarating when he takes on institutions as powerful as the church or the Beatles.
If you’ve ever wondered what led to the collapse of the Soviet empire, Farewell offers an intriguing answer.
What’s most fascinating are the dirty little secrets George Butler chooses to leave off-screen, starting with the competition itself.
Some things are unforgiveable, aren’t they?