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Film and TV

The Hub

Watch the earliest known detective film, featuring a very confused Sherlock Holmes.

 
By Emily Temple  August 10, 2022
What to Watch

Bodies Bodies Bodies is a Vicious Parody of Online Culture and a Tight Little Murder Mystery

By Olivia Rutigliano  August 5, 2022
The Hub

We’re getting a Keanu Reeves prestige TV series: Erik Larson’s Devil in the White City

By Jonny Diamond  August 4, 2022
The Hub

The spiritual sequel to In Bruges has arrived.

By Dan Sheehan  August 4, 2022
Great Adaptations

How to Adapt Edith Wharton: In Praise of Terence Davies’s The House of Mirth

By Robert Stinner  August 4, 2022
The Hub

Noah Baumbach’s White Noise will open the 60th New York Film Festival.

By Dan Sheehan  August 2, 2022
Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
The Hub

“It has absolutely nothing going for it, except Satan.” Read James Baldwin on The Exorcist.

By Emily Temple  August 2, 2022
The Hub

An ode to the grumpy writer in The Princess Diaries.

By Katie Yee  July 29, 2022
Film and TV

The Literary Film and TV You Need to Stream in August

By Emily Temple  July 29, 2022
Keen On

How Novelists Create More “Realistic” Characters Than Those You See on the Screen

Anthony Marra in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On  August 9, 2022
The Hub

Check out the trailer for Joyce Carol Oates/Ana de Armas collab Blonde.

By Dan Sheehan  July 28, 2022
Rock and Roll

From A Hard Day’s Night to This Is Spinal Tap: The Big Tent of Rock and Roll on Film

By Fred Goodman  July 28, 2022
What to Watch

The Most Impossible Art: Anime, Literature, and the New Aesthetic Imagination

By Lio Min  July 28, 2022
Women Writers

Meet Elinor Glyn, “Shocker of Grandmothers” and Founder of the Modern Sex Novel

On the Author of the Most Widely Denounced Novel Published Before World War I

By Hilary A. Hallett  July 26, 2022
What to Watch

Nope is a Masterclass on Our Relationship to Entertainment

By Olivia Rutigliano  July 22, 2022
Film

Actually, Killing a Dog Was More Than Enough to Justify John Wick’s Revenge Quest

By Edward Gross and Mark A. Altman  July 22, 2022
Film History

Reckoning with the Memory of Jonas Mekas, Godfather of Avant-Garde Cinema

By Peter Delpeut  July 22, 2022
Directors

8 Women Directors from Around the World You Should Be Watching

David Jenkins on Ava DuVernay, Isabel Sandoval, and More

By David Jenkins  July 21, 2022
Film

How Madame Mao Remade Hollywood For Chinese Audiences

By Ying Zhu  July 21, 2022
The Hub

Fun fact: Zadie Smith’s younger brother is in the bad Austen adaptation.

By Emily Temple  July 20, 2022
Adaptations

How a Lord of the Rings and Dungeons & Dragons Crossover Almost Happened

By Ben Riggs  July 20, 2022
Hollywood

Bad Hollywood: A Reading List to Understand Harvey Weinstein’s Twisted World

Ken Auletta Recommends Ronan Farrow, William Goldman, and More

By Ken Auletta  July 20, 2022
What to Watch

From Fleabag to Persuasion, the Rise of the Mussy-Haired, Self-Hating Sarcasm Machine

By Emmeline Clein  July 15, 2022
Film and TV

How Rummaging Through Oliver Stone’s Home Office Allowed a Young Rafael Agustín to Imagine Being a Writer

By Rafael Agustin  July 15, 2022
Film Studies

The Childfree Effigy: On Network’s Diana and the Tropes That Betray Women

By Felice Arenas  July 29, 2022
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