Matt Reeves’ version of Batman feels as distinct from Christopher Nolan as Nolan himself felt distinct from Tim Burton. While the story is quite familiar from previous [...]
Adam McKay’s latest release, Don’t Look Up, seems to have had an impact – for the last week, Google has showed trending searches about asteroids; their size, their [...]
As the mid-00s arrived, and it became harder for Hollywood directors to tap into the feel-good spirit of the romcom 90s, a whole new second wave of films emerged – films [...]
Tom’s Brown Body is the first true crime podcast from Texas Monthly and deals with a very Texan victim – at least on the surface. Over eight episodes, journalist Skip [...]
Thelma & Louise must have seemed truly visionary for women who watched it in 1991, since Callie Khouri’s screenplay still seems ahead of its time, yearning towards a [...]
Along with Dirty John, Dr. Death has become a flagship podcast for Wondery – an advertisement for the brand and channel as much as an investigation into Christopher [...]
West Cork is a remarkably lyrical and sensitive look at the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier in Drinane, County Cork, Ireland, on December 23, 1996. Sophie was a French [...]
By this stage, a month into Sydney’s second lockdown, I’ve spent about twenty-four hours with The Shards, Bret Easton Ellis’ latest novel. Unlike BEE’s previous [...]
Alone is one of the scariest films I’ve seen in years, melding various types of horror around a remarkably familiar premise – a young woman who is stalked by a man in the [...]
There’s nothing quite like the breathless yearning of 80s coming-of-age films – and there’s no 80s coming-of-age film quite like Mystic Pizza, Donald Petrie’s [...]