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Watch the creepy first trailer for <em>The Changeling</em>.

Watch the creepy first trailer for The Changeling.

By Dan Sheehan | August 8, 2023

How Casting Helen of Troy Becomes an Exercise in Female Power

How Casting Helen of Troy Becomes an Exercise in Female Power

“Helen’s spell has always depended, in part, on her own erotic agency, exercised in defiance of male authority.”

By Ruby Blondell | August 7, 2023

Adrian Tomine on the Delight of Collaborating on the <em>Shortcomings</em> Adaptation

Adrian Tomine on the Delight of Collaborating on the Shortcomings Adaptation

“My wife was actually kind of freaked out by how happy I was during that time.”

By Adrian Tomine | August 4, 2023

The Ineffable Romance of <em>Good Omens</em>... Four Years, One Pandemic, and Two Hollywood Strikes Later

The Ineffable Romance of Good Omens... Four Years, One Pandemic, and Two Hollywood Strikes Later

Alexis Gunderson on the Funny Calm Before a Storm

By Alexis Gunderson | August 4, 2023

Becoming Others: Enacting the Transness of Virginia Woolf’s <em>Orlando</em>

Becoming Others: Enacting the Transness of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando

Hannah Bonner on the Utopian Future of Paul B. Preciado’s Orlando, My Political Biography

By Hannah Bonner | August 3, 2023

Watch the trailer for the new Joyce Carol Oates documentary.

Watch the trailer for the new Joyce Carol Oates documentary.

By Dan Sheehan | July 28, 2023

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Greta Gerwig’s <em>Barbie</em> is a Fascinating, Spectacular Philosophical Experiment

Greta Gerwig’s Barbie is a Fascinating, Spectacular Philosophical Experiment

Barbie Literalizes the Abstract and Abstracts the Literal in an Engaging, Thought-Provoking Inquiry into the Female Experience

By Olivia Rutigliano | July 21, 2023

How to Adapt Stephen King: A Conversation with the Duo Behind <em>The Boogeyman</em>

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Jonathan Russell Clark Chats with Screenwriters Scott Beck and Bryan Woods

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Time Out of Mind: On the Ahistorical Cinematic Adaptation

Time Out of Mind: On the Ahistorical Cinematic Adaptation

A 1973 Bruno Schulz Adaptation Goes (Temporally) Beyond Its Source Material—and It’s Not Alone

By Tobias Carroll | July 21, 2023

The Race to Make Hollywood’s First Atomic Bomb Movie

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Before Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, the World Nearly Got Ayn Rand’s ”Tribute to Free Enterprise”

By Greg Mitchell | July 17, 2023

Can Writers Have Fun? <em>Afire</em> is a Character Study of a Self-Absorbed Novelist

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Elissa Suh on Christian Petzold’s New Comedy of Manners

By Elissa Suh | July 14, 2023

On the Refugee Stories That Begin Where <em>Casablanca</em> Ends

On the Refugee Stories That Begin Where Casablanca Ends

Tabea Alexa Linhard Explains Why Refugee History is Everyone’s History

By Tabea Alexa Linhard | July 14, 2023

Why Regency Romance Needs to Give Its Characters of Color Greater Agency

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