The Queue Archives

The Queue is an oft-recurring column in which Meg Shields provides you with a distraction of curated video content sourced from across the web.

For a director as dedicated to visuals as Christopher Nolan is, you’d think he’d be a little more into “show don’t tell.”

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…Cary Grant still outclasses everyone.

Shakespeare is the most screen-adapted writer of all time. And as far as cinematic adaptations go, 1948 was the best year.

The words “blender” and “murder” shouldn’t be this funny, and yet here we are.

Here’s why the imperfections of VHS endeared so many of us to cinema, and why a low-res viewing experience isn’t necessarily a bad one.

Movies have had an immense effect on how video games look, but that balance is beginning to shift.

Hey, accidents happen. Hopefully the cameras caught it.

There are few people-watchers quite like Hayao Miyazaki

Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe depicts exactly that, but the short documentary is much more profound than its blunt title suggests.

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