Color Purple: African Violet
There was not as much outcry as you might expect when Steven Spielberg was announced as the director of The Color Purple in the...
Wonka: Hot Chocolate
What does it mean that all the actors who have played Willy Wonka on screen have been Americans? You might not have tabbed Timothée...
Eileen: Someone to Love
Recently, Saltburn took us deep into the mind of an incel. It’s not the first movie to do so, which begs the question: What...
Holiday Movie Preview
The Hollywood writers’ and actors’ strikes are now over, but the ripple effects are still evident at the multiplexes. The Dune sequel got bumped...
Renaissance: All You Can Bey
In the wake of the Taylor Swift documentary’s success, observers were saying that Beyoncé was perhaps the only other current pop star who could...
Dream Scenario: Fancies of Our Sleeps
Kristoffer Borgli is a 38-year-old Norwegian director who finds humor in the place where fame and social media meet. His debut feature, the art-world...
Of Monsters and Men
A friend and I recently commiserated that keeping up with the Marvel movies and TV shows is beginning to feel like homework, how if...
Saltburn: Home for the Holidays
After Barry Keoghan won an Oscar nomination last year for his work as the cop’s abused and ill-fated son in The Banshees of Inisherin,...
Napoleon: Cock, Aid
Almost 100 years ago, Abel Gance made a movie about Napoleon Bonaparte. That was more than 100 years after the French conqueror’s death, but...
Hunger Games: Snow Falling on Panem
In the novel The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen describes herself as being small-statured, olive-skinned, and dark-haired, so of course, when they made the movie...
