Among the abundance of lesbian films that
were released in 2018, The Favourite,
from eccentric director Yorgos Lanthimos, was easily the most drooled-over. His...
With news
of the creators of Bandersnatch being
sued for their use of the “choose your own adventure” title, it’s
interesting to consider how interactivity in ...
I was first introduced to When Harry Met Sally when I was nine years old. I always knew that it was my mother’s favorite movie, but it existed as a sort of eni...
The trick to making history come alive is to make the audience forget that they know how something’s going to end. The first film to adapt the life of Mary, Qu...
Dan Gilroy has moved
from the grimy streets of L.A. in Nightcrawler
to the elegant yet equally ruthless halls of the city’s art galleries in Velvet Buzzsaw. Un...
Growing up the daughter of a single, working mother, I was watched by my grandmother many evenings. As a result, I spent countless hours of my childhood with t...
After making waves at Cannes, Lee Chang-dong brought his thrilling sixth feature Burning to the UK at the 2018 BFI London Film Festival last October. There, I ...
When Alfonso Cuarón went onstage to accept his two Golden
Globes—for Best Foreign Language Film and Best Director—for ROMA, I couldn’t help but think of the
li...
The
Kübler-Ross Model dictates that there are five stages of grief: denial, anger,
bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Rosa Escandón’s Assault and Other
St...
We all carry within us fixations
with certain ideas, things, and people that shape our tastes and who we are. These
fixations can sometimes transform into obse...
