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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]