Film and TV

Excerpts

Watch a Mansplain-y Scene from the Adaptation of Meg Wolitzer’s The Wife

By Emily Temple  August 2, 2018
Feature

13 Literary Writers Who Have Adapted Other People’s Books for the Screen

By Emily Temple  July 26, 2018
Deep Dive

Toward a Theory of Radical Corniness

By Eric Thurm  July 20, 2018
Criticism

Does The Handmaid’s Tale Want Us to Empathize with Ivanka Trump?

By Rachel Vorona Cote  July 12, 2018
Biography

BREAKING: David Lynch Has Thoughts on the Dark Side of Fifties Suburbia

By David Lynch  July 10, 2018
Criticism

Why Was 90s TV Full of Violence Against Women?

By Allison Yarrow  July 9, 2018
Feature

The Philosophy of Romantic Comedy

By Eric Thurm  June 29, 2018
Film

In Praise of an Afternoon at the Movies

By Donna Masini  June 11, 2018
Excerpts

How Vanya on 42nd Street Captured a Changing New York City

By Andy Merrifield  June 8, 2018
Criticism

A Conflicted Feminist Revenge Fantasy for the #MeToo Era

By Eric Thurm  June 5, 2018
Criticism

“If A Clockwork Orange Can Corrupt, Why Not Shakespeare and the Bible?”

By Anthony Burgess  May 30, 2018
Deep Dive

The Inherent Anxiety of the “Good Cop” Show

By Eric Thurm  May 21, 2018
Essay

The Sublime, Ugly Agony of Patrick Melrose

By Emily Temple  May 14, 2018
Feature

The 20 Best Literary Adaptations to Watch on Netflix Tonight

By Emily Temple  May 4, 2018
Feature

50 Fictional Writers, Ranked

By Emily Temple  May 1, 2018
Deep Dive

If Reality TV is Superficial, Why Does It Make Me Feel So Much?

By Lucas Mann  May 1, 2018
Deep Dive

The First Film Ever Streamed on the Internet is Kind of Crazy

By Joshua Wheeler  April 30, 2018
Deep Dive

200 Years of Frankenstein On Stage and Onscreen

By Iris Veysey  April 27, 2018
Feature

The Strange Cinematic History of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

By Craig Hubert  April 27, 2018
Feature

The Best 90s Screen Adaptations of Shakespeare, Ranked

By Emily Temple  April 23, 2018
Feature

How Should a Literary Adaptation Be? We Asked the Critics for the Answer

By Kristen Evans  March 29, 2018
Criticism

It’s Time for TV to Eat the Rich

By Eric Thurm  March 26, 2018
Essay

Is the Quest for an Ethical Reality Show Doomed?

By Eric Thurm  March 7, 2018
Feature

If They Gave Oscars to Books, Our 2017 Nominees

By Emily Temple  March 2, 2018
Feature

Will Iain M. Banks’s Bonkers Space Opera Novels Work On Screen?

By Lincoln Michel  February 28, 2018
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