Some claim that January is a cultural dead zone for events, and on days when the sun seems to clock out at noon, it’s hard to ...

Readings that the podcast’s guests say shaped their thinking.

Shakespearean is as Shakespearean does in the lovely puzzler of a film that is Hamnet. Few films in history — if any — have managed the inspired director and co-writer Chloé Zhao’s deft feat of ...

One of the salient virtues and primary artistic selling points of If I Had Legs I’d Kick You is Rose Byrne’s extreme readiness for her close-up. And it’s a probing, merciless and epic close-up factor ...

James Bond fans were a bit worried when it was announced that Amazon MGM Studios is taking over creative control of the Bond ...

"Behind my desire to 'activate' the audience is a distaste for sutured, hegemonic cinema. By this, I mean a cinema dominated by both narrative and documentary traditions, cinema that hypnotizes its ...