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All in Essays
In light of Deneuve's comments on #MeToo, Jenna muses on how it is that somebody so close to Repulsion could somehow miss this point of the movie entirely.
There is a spectrum for how humans think of the future: at one end are the people who look forward to Mars colonies and widely available sex robots, and at the other end is the Unabomber. Before We Vanish, Antiviral and Mindhack #savetheworld teeter somewhere in-between completely fatalistic and blindly idealistic.
Two-and-a-half decades before the stars of Charlize Theron and Uma Thurman had risen, there was a little girl from Delaware who, with a little perseverance and a whole lot of talent, took Hong Kong by storm.
Veronica takes a closer look at a different kind of odyssey. Featuring Showgirls, Good Time and Tangerine.
What is it that interests humans in seeing others killed, maimed, or tortured? A look at giallo, grindhouse, and the beyond.
A look at some of the more obscure singing cowboys films that build a mythical America I want to remember - including Gene Autry, Herb Jeffries, Dorothy Page and Tito Guízar.
Stand By Me and Now and Then faces mortality, while The Transfiguration and Eyes of My Mother accept it head-on.
