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, [...]
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 [...]
Beatriz at Dinner came out a month after The Dinner and both seem to belong to a similar moment in American cinema, even if they go about articulating that moment in very [...]
Wind River is the second film to be directed by Tyler Sheridan and the third in a neo-western trilogy, following Sicario, directed by Denis Villeneuve, and Hell or High [...]
Michael Haneke’s most recent film opens as a kind of spiritual sequel to Hidden, although, this time around, we’re presented with three very different kinds of image. [...]
Throughout the second season of Twin Peaks, there was a steady influx of new characters, but “Wounds and Scars,” the seventeenth episode, provided the only two – with [...]
“Dispute Between Brothers” officially feels like the beginning of the third “part” of Twin Peaks, if not the third season per se, since this is the point at which the [...]
Over the course of our three nights at the Melbourne Comedy Festival we saw three acts in three very different venues. The first of these was Rhys Nicholson’s “I’m [...]
The third and final film in The Purge trilogy, Election Year makes a significant jump into the future, opening with a brief prologue set in 2022 – the backdrop to the [...]