Category: Movie

When Céline Sciamma’s second feature, Tomboy, premiered in 2011, she could have had no idea that it would one day receive extreme backlash in her home country. A year and a half later, the French government’s ‘Ecole et Cinéma’ initiative, which worked to cultivate cinephilia

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Gillian Wallace Horvat’s 2015 short film Kiss Kiss Fingerbang, a Grand Jury Award winner at SXSW, was the kind of distinctively dark calling card that might ordinarily lead to ample directing offers. At least, going by the success stories of so many genre-inclined filmmakers

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This essay is part of our series Episodes, a column in which senior contributor Valerie Ettenhofer digs into the singular chapters of television that make the medium great. This entry looks back on the Game of Thrones pilot, “Winds of Winter,” for its tenth

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The films of Barry Jenkins have formed a collage of Black life through the years, from the midcentury period of If Beale Street Could Talk to the lifelong sprawl of Moonlight. For his next project, he’s going back to the roots of African-American identity and tackling

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The Falcon and the Winter Soldier Explained is our ongoing series delving into Marvel’s grand new bromance between Sam Wilson and Bucky Barnes. In this entry, we examine The Falcon and the Winter Soldier Episode 5 (“Truth”) and unpack a new villain’s arrival. Yes,

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on movie Welcome to The Queue — your daily distraction of curated video content sourced from across the web. Today, we’re watching a video essay breaking down four different approaches to translations of movie titles. If you’ve ever had the pleasure of learning

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Jim Jarmusch has been keeping quiet and staying out of the spotlight during these past months of quarantine, having left us with his most recent film The Dead Don’t Die in 2019. While news of another feature has yet to arrive, yesterday brought the next best thing, in the

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Jim Jarmusch has been keeping quiet and staying out of the spotlight during these past months of quarantine, having left us with his most recent film The Dead Don’t Die in 2019. While news of another feature has yet to arrive, yesterday brought the next best thing, in the

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Creepshow‘s second season continues on Shudder, and the latest episode features all manner of talents from throughout the horror genre. This week’s segments include cast and crew from the likes of Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991), True Blood

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Shivers are routinely sent down the spine while watching Pat Collins’ fascinating, low-tempo profile of Henry Glassie, an itinerant ethnographer who travels the world looking at how people live. He has parlayed his considerable knowledge base into a number of books, lectures

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