Ozon: L’Amant Double (Double Lover) (2017)
Francois Ozon’s Double Lover plays like his own particular take on Hitchcock, or on Brian De Palma’s Hitchcock. Based on the short story Lives of the Twins, by Joyce [...]
May 2018
Robespierre: Landline (2017)
Set in the mid-1990s, Gillian Robespierre’s second feature is one of the most beautiful and plangent New York family dramas in years, revolving around the Jacobs – father [...]
Wild Wild Country (Netflix) (2018)
One of the most ambitious and far-reaching documentary series yet released by Netflix, Wild Wild Country tells the story of the great utopian experiment of Rajneeshpuram, a [...]
Michell: My Cousin Rachel (2017)
Daphne Du Maurier’s My Cousin Rachel has a bit of a mixed history on the big and small screens, since while it’s prompted several adaptations none of them have quite [...]
Levinson: The Wizard of Lies (2017)
The Wizard of Lies is the third televisual treatment of Bernie Madoff’s record-breaking Ponzi Scheme, which saw him commit a fraud somewhere in the realm of 65 billion [...]
Kogonada: Columbus (2017)
Columbus is Kogonada’s first feature film, but it comes after a long career in film essays, many of which have focused on the spaces and architecture employed by other [...]
Bong: Okja (2017)
Along with The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected), Okja was one of the first “prestige” Netflix films, and may well turn out to be one of the last to ever screen in [...]
Falcone: Life of the Party (2018)
Life of the Party is Ben Falcone’s third film with Melissa McCarthy, and it’s every bit as good as Tammy and The Boss, even if it’s been met with the same lukewarm [...]
Manhunt: Unabomber (Discovery Channel) (2017)
Over the last couple of years, the idea of white terrorism has gradually become available, for the first time since before 9/11, as an object of critique and discussion in [...]
Younger (TV Land) (2015-)
In an era in which narrowcasting is so dominant, and in which there are so many releases for so many different demographics, it perhaps doesn’t make sense, any more, to [...]