• Film and TV

    Criticism

    Raising Kael: On Pauline Kael’s Controversial Criticism of Citizen Kane

    By Alan Jacobs  November 26, 2019
    Celebrity

    How Ian McKellen Almost Didn’t Play Gandalf

    By Garry O'Connor  November 26, 2019
    Directors

    Ingmar Bergman Made a Movie For Each One of His Fears

    By Masha Tupitsyn  November 22, 2019
    The Hub

    The teaser for Emma (written by Eleanor Catton!) is full of snark.

    By Corinne Segal  November 21, 2019
    Vietnam

    How the Vietnam War Changed
    Political Poetry

    By Daniel H. Weiss  November 20, 2019
    Sociology

    The Debutante Ball in the Global
    Age of Instagram

    By Kristen Richardson  November 20, 2019
    Movies

    Hollywood’s Black Musicals: A Tale of Obscurity, Innovation, and…The Wiz

    By Jeanine Basinger  November 20, 2019
    The Hub

    Alan Moore on Marvel vs. Scorsese: the influence of superheroes is “embarrassing” and “worrying.”

    By Emily Firetog  November 18, 2019
    Film

    On Dennis Cooper’s Elegant Jump to Film

    By Jeff Jackson  November 18, 2019
    The Hub

    Gary Oldman loves acting in literary adaptations.

    By Dan Sheehan  November 15, 2019
    TV

    Will Self: Claire Foy Will Always Be My Queen

    By Will Self  November 14, 2019
    Teachers

    High School Crush: On Literary Longing and Misdirected Lust

    By Janet Manley  November 13, 2019
    The Hub

    Attention: Kevin Wilson’s novel about twins that spontaneously combust is going to be a movie.

    By Katie Yee  November 12, 2019
    The Hub

    Have you seen the horrifying trailer for The Invisible Man?

    By Dan Sheehan  November 8, 2019
    Feminism

    Inside the Early Struggles of the Women Who Built Disney

    By Nathalia Holt  November 8, 2019
    Film

    Did This Iconic 1962 Short Film Show Us Our Dark Future?

    By David L. Ulin  November 7, 2019
    Film

    Andy Serkis’s Gollum Was the Best Thing About The Lord of the Rings

    By Michael Newton  November 7, 2019
    Criticism

    On the Radically Compassionate Films of Ai Weiwei and Agnès Varda

    By Curtis White  November 7, 2019
    The Hub

    An early look at the adaptation of Normal People, with commentary from my Irish colleagues.

    By Emily Temple  October 31, 2019
    Horror

    The Terror Behind the Mask

    By Tyler Malone  October 31, 2019
    Humor

    John Hodgman: The Time Everyone Said I Looked Like Hitler

    By John Hodgman  October 28, 2019
    Icons

    The Gloriously Understated Career of Elaine Stritch

    By Alexandra Jacobs  October 22, 2019
    Community

    From Burning Man to Industrial Rome, Gift-Giving as Ritualized, Collective Offering

    By Lewis Hyde  October 21, 2019
    Theater

    Gary Janetti on Patti LuPone

    By Gary Janetti  October 19, 2019
    Nice and Accurate Rankings

    50 Fictional Librarians, Ranked

    By Emily Temple  October 16, 2019
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