Author: Meg Shields

Here’s a video that teases out the cinematic resonances between ‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire’ and the work of Jane Campion, Stanley Kubrick, and others.

Here’s a video essay about why Christopher Nolan’s ‘Inception’ still has us dreaming big, ten years later.

Here’s writer Alan Moore with a definition of “Modernist Horror” and a compelling case for why genre film can be a call to action.

Here’s a video essay on why the best action sequences are structured like stories rather than spectacles.

There’s a team of video essayists dissecting their favorite scenes from the X-Men films. Here’s one of our favorites: a video on why the attack on Division X scene from ‘X-Men: First Class’ exemplifies the “warm house” archetype.

We’re going this way. And by “this way” we mean straight towards the latest entry of “How’d They Do That?” with a break down of the audacious wrong-way car chase.

What we’re watching: a video essay explaining why Lars von Trier’s film is one of the funniest of 2018.

Here’s a tribute to the various iterations of ‘Nana,’ and the two Anna’s who played her best.

Focus up, with this video essay on the storytelling potential of the rack focus shot.