Chungking Express wasn’t originally meant to be Wong Kar-Wai’s breakout masterwork. He shot it in a mere two months, as a respite from editing the wuxia epic Ashes of [...]

Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer starts by evoking complexity – with the ringlets of rain that form as J. Robert Oppenheimer, played by Cillian Murphy, gazes upon them, [...]

The Barbenheimer phenomenon seems to have marked a pivot in the way that we think about gender – and it has been driven largely by Barbie. Once upon a time, Oppenheimer [...]

At one point in Amityville 3D, the third film in the Amityville cycle, a character observes that “reality is the only word in the language that should always be placed in [...]

Days of Being Wild, Wong Kar-wai’s sophomore film, is clearly the work of the master who produced As Tears Gone By. There’s the same effortless noir cool, the same Hong [...]

Tina Satter’s Reality is a film adaptation of her 2019 play, Is This Is A Room, which was itself an adaptation of the interrogation of Reality Winner, the U.S. Air Force [...]

“The world is changing. Truth is vanishing. War is coming.” So states one of Ethan Hunt’s main adversaries in Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 1, one of the [...]

As Tears Go By, Wong Kar-wai’s directorial debut, is a lush neon fever dream that oozes atmosphere, explodes with intensity and brims with such stylistic restlessness that [...]

In an era where franchising, universe-building and corporate acquisitions determine the aesthetic of so much American cinema, there’s something wonderfully refresing about [...]

At their core, the original Indiana Jones films were about introducing a new kind of space to American cinema – what might be described as hyperreal chamber spaces. Just as [...]