Essays
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The Case for Sofia Coppola’s Beguiled Remake
Sometimes a remake offers a filmmaker an opportunity to right some wrongs.
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How the Movies Are Like Baseball
Everybody loves baseball metaphors. Here are a bunch related to the relationship between Hollywood and its audience.
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The Growing Significance of ‘Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles’
Chantal Akerman’s seminal Jeanne Dielman (1975) is a film made up of in-between, throwaway moments we are usually robbed out of in popular cinema.
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Hulu’s 11.22.63 Reaches The Day In Question, Finds An Imperfect Ending
So, that was the final episode of 11.22.63.
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SyFy’s The Magicians Goes To The Place We’ve Been Waiting For
So how did we get there?
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Eight Men Out and the Resilient Purity of Baseball
“I like your interest in sports ball, chiefest of all base-ball particularly: base-ball is our game: the American game: I connect it with our national character.”
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The Bosses of Them All: Why Employers Are So Horrible in Movies and TV
With Melissa McCarthy’s The Boss giving us another horrible employer on the big screen, we wonder where all the good bosses are.
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The DC Extended Universe Must Do Better By Its Female Characters
If the DC Extended Universe wants to thrive, it must start doing better by its female characters – and not just the one named Wonder Woman.
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How Togetherness Was Too Real to Last
HBO is ending Togetherness after two season. We explore why.
