• Film and TV

    The Hub

    Greta Lee will write and star in A24’s TV adaptation of Cathy Park Hong’s Minor Feelings.

    By Walker Caplan  May 6, 2021
    Open Form

    How Hunt for the Wilderpeople Subverts Both the Orphan Trope and the Buddy Comedy

    By Open Form  May 6, 2021
    The Hub

    How to make writing easier, according to one of comedy’s greatest minds. (Hint: it involves elves.)

    By Walker Caplan  May 3, 2021
    Keen On

    Are We Circling Back to an Era of Quieter, Socially Aware Filmmaking?

    By Keen On  May 3, 2021
    The Hub

    Akwaeke Emezi’s forthcoming romance novel will be an Amazon Studios film.

    By Walker Caplan  April 29, 2021
    #MeToo

    The Dark Side of an Auteur: On Alfred Hitchcock’s Treatment of Women

    By Edward White  April 26, 2021
    The Hub

    LeVar Burton is your new Jeopardy! guest host.

    By Vanessa Willoughby  April 22, 2021
    Open Form

    Brit Bennett on Undercover Brother and the Bygone Comedy of Racial Misunderstanding

    By Open Form  April 22, 2021
    The Hub

    Antoine Fuqua is making a new, all-Black Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

    By Dan Sheehan  April 21, 2021
    Open Form

    Introducing Our New Film Podcast, Open Form

    By Open Form  April 21, 2021
    The Hub

    This bucolic 1946 newsreel about Daphne Du Maurier could also be the beginning of a horror film.

    By Dan Sheehan  April 20, 2021
    The Hub

    Dakota Johnson is set to star in Netflix’s film adaptation of Jane Austen’s Persuasion.

    By Walker Caplan  April 20, 2021
    The Hub

    Monstrosity Plucked From Garbage Can: On Mae West’s early career as a controversial playwright.

    By Walker Caplan  April 20, 2021
    The Hub

    Watch Spalding Gray perform Our Town’s legendary opening monologue.

    By Walker Caplan  April 16, 2021
    The Hub

    An ode to Paul Bettany’s mellifluous, magisterial turn as Chaucer in A Knight’s Tale.

    By Emily Temple  April 16, 2021
    The Hub

    Watch the stunning new trailer for The Underground Railroad.

    By Vanessa Willoughby  April 15, 2021
    The Hub

    This 1980 George Plimpton TV commercial for video games is a masterpiece.

    By Jonny Diamond  April 14, 2021
    Documentaries

    Finding Hemingway: Seeing the Self Behind the Self-Mythologizer

    By Alex Thomas  April 14, 2021
    The Hub

    Natalie Portman is your new Ferrante heroine.

    By Dan Sheehan  April 13, 2021
    The Hub

    Watch Kathy Acker read from The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec.

    By Walker Caplan  April 12, 2021
    Race

    On the Long Tradition of the Imitative Performance of Blackness

    By Ayanna Thompson  April 12, 2021
    The Maris Review

    Amy Solomon and Aparna Nancherla on the Intersection of Comedy and Anxiety

    By The Maris Review  April 8, 2021
    The Hub

    Park Chan-wook is directing a TV adaptation of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer.

    By Walker Caplan  April 7, 2021
    Pop Culture

    The Gospel of Neo: How The Matrix Paved the Way for the Marvel Universe

    By Kim Taylor-Foster  April 7, 2021
    The Hub

    Watch this endearingly low-budget Soviet TV adaptation of Lord of the Rings.

    By Vanessa Willoughby  April 6, 2021
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