• Film and TV

    Criticism

    Rewriting Trauma: The Business of Storytelling in the Age of the Algorithm

    By James Schamus  December 12, 2018
    Criticism

    Why Look at Art When You Could Watch TV?

    By Joshua Sperling  November 26, 2018
    Op-Ed

    Dirty Dancing Belongs in the Lesbian Rom-Com Canon

    By Esther Newton  November 14, 2018
    Op-Ed

    My Brilliant Friend is the Kind of TV We Need Right Now: Slow

    By Emily Temple  November 12, 2018
    Feature

    Watch the New Trailer for the Astrid Lindgren Biopic Becoming Astrid

    By Emily Temple  October 26, 2018
    Essay

    So, WAS Friends Homophobic?

    By Kelsey Miller  October 23, 2018
    Feature

    31 Movies Based on Short Stories

    By Emily Temple  October 1, 2018
    Conversations

    Patrick DeWitt on the Surreal Joy (and Terror) of Seeing Your Novel Onscreen

    By Tatum Dooley  September 26, 2018
    Excerpts

    ‘I Started to Cry.’ Sally Field on Bringing Norma Rae to Cannes

    By Sally Field  September 24, 2018
    Excerpts

    What Do Superheroes and Zombies Have to Do With the End of the World?

    By Peter Biskind  September 18, 2018
    Essay

    Better Call Saul Knows Morality is About More Than Individual Choice

    By Eric Thurm  September 12, 2018
    Feature

    Laura van den Berg on the Horror Films That Inspired Her New Novel

    By Laura van den Berg  August 24, 2018
    Feature

    We the Animals is the Ideal Literary Adaptation

    By Emily Temple  August 14, 2018
    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

    David Lynch 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
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