Kasdan: Grand Canyon (1991)
Grand Canyon was Lawrence Kasdan’s spiritual sequel to The Big Chill, a vision of baby boomers at the cusp of the 1990s as they try to locate themselves within an [...]
November 2017
Cimino: Desperate Hours (1990)
One of the more eccentric neo-noir releases of the 80s and 90s, Michael Cimino’s Desperate Hours is a remake of William Wyler’s 1955 film of the same name, which details [...]
The Young Pope: Season 1 (2017)
One of the most curious and complex television series of 2017, The Young Pope marks Paolo Sorrentino’s transition to television, although its charm lies partly in the way [...]
Spicer: Ingrid Goes West (2017)
Possibly the best film to be made about Instagram to date, Ingrid Goes West takes place in a world in which online romance, crushing and stalking has shifted in focus from [...]
Almodovar: Atame! (Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!) (1990)
If Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown saw Pedro Almodovar break into the mainstream and discover a surprising amount of crossover appeal within the United States, then [...]
Allen: Shadows and Fog (1991)
Shadows and Fog is based on Woody Allen’s one-act play Death, which was published in 1975 as a comic version of Eugene Ionesco’s 1959 play The Killer. While Death had [...]
New Order: Low-Life (1985)
I’ve always found Low-Life to be one of the most beautiful of New Order’s albums. In part, that’s because of how eloquently it responds to Power, Corruption and Lies, [...]
Caton-Jones: Doc Hollywood (1991)
No film encapsulates the plastic surgery panic that hit Hollywood in the early 1990s quite like Doc Hollywood, if only because no film tackles plastic surgery from such a [...]
Clooney: Suburbicon (2017)
To say that George Clooney’s latest film has received something of a critical backlash isn’t really that much of a criticism. Between Good Night and Good Luck and The [...]