After Monty Python and the Holy Grail eviscerated the self-seriousness of the Arthurian epic but before Shrek added pop songs and fart jokes galore, Rob Reiner and William Goldman’s The Princess Bride was pop culture’s definitive postmodern comic fairytale....
Last year at this time, we were blessed with the first screenings of Paul Thomas Anderson's endlessly rewatchable Phantom Thread. While we don't get a new f...
We explore how The Ice Storm, Lady Bird, Mistress America, Home for the Holidays, Hannah and Her Sisters, and more films subvert the common idealized imagery of the holiday....
There's no better way to recognize what a filmmaker brings to the table than a sequel without him/her. This isn't to say Ryan Coogler wasn't involved in the mak...
Expanding on one of the stories I first encountered on the NPR StoryCore podcast, The Interpreters is an alarming call to action exploring the human cost of war...
A loving tribute through the eyes of Jakob Dylan and friends, Echo in the Canyon offers a behind the scenes approach to recapturing the magic of the mid-60s era...
American journalist Marie Colvin's family's lawyers say they have evidence proving the Bashar al-Assad-led government of Syria ordered her death in 2012. If tha...
After his vividly nightmarish debut Eyes of My Mother, director Nicolas Pesce returned to Sundance Film Festival this year with another brutal horror offeri...
After his last movie–the trippy, transportive Embrace of the Serpent–became the first Colombian film ever nominated for an Oscar, director Ciro Guerra is ba...
