Film: Threads
Nightmare fuel that cannot be unseen, even many decades later
Film: Candlelight in Algeria
Candlelight in Algeria (1943) has the potent whiff of the wartime morale booster to it
Film: Sentimental Value
Norwegian auteur Joachim Trier continues to build cachet with Sentimental Value (2025), his latest collaboration
Film: Beyond the Poseidon Adventure
Seventies disaster films comprise a peculiar genre. There are no real masterpieces; indeed, even the
Film: American Sweatshop
I’d like to imagine there may yet be a reformed, sensible future wherein the sheer
Film: The Secret Agent
While The Secret Agent (2025) is far from a traditional spy film, it’s the first
Film: Zabriskie Point
Given how much I enjoyed Michelangelo Antonioni’s The Passenger, it’s astonishing how ineffective I found
Film: Rear Window
Oh, now this is the stuff. Rewatching Rear Window (1954) for the umpteenth time takes
Film: Bring Her Back
The basic trajectory is predictable, but fortunately the scene-by-scene progression of Bring Her Back (2025),
Film: If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
Mary Bronstein’s If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (2025) doesn’t have an especially novel
Film: The Great Flood
It’s not so much that The Great Flood (2025) is generally disappointing, but that it
Film: Arlington Road
Rewatching Arlington Road (1999) for the first time in over twenty years is a weird
Film: The Day the Earth Caught Fire
The trappings are dated and the science is totally sus, but there’s nonetheless something prescient
Film: One Battle After Another
Paul Thomas Anderson made an indelible mark back in the day with Boogie Nights and