Why Does Anyone Care Who Directs A Star Wars Movie?
In today’s movie universes, directors are hired hands.
The Beguiled: Clint’s Weird Southern Gothic Horrorshow
What with a remake coming, it’s time to revisit the original.
Why Wonder Woman Works
Wonder Woman proves that female directors and female leads and female characters can do everything the boys can do, and better.
Mind Control Double Feature #109: Fool’s Gould
It takes a Gould to steal the unstealable.
Twin Peaks Season 3: David Lynch Is Not Your Bitch
Twin Peaks is back, and it’s exactly as unlike it used to be as it ever was.
We Like to Watch
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In Which Alien: Covenant Is Lamented
In the future, all scientists will be stupid.
Twin Peaks: On The Original Series And What’s To Come
We’ve waited twenty-five years, Lynch, just like you asked us to. What’s next?
The Character Who Isn’t There In The Man Who Wasn’t There
Can a character absent from his own life carry a movie?
Only ’90s Kids Will Get Everything That’s Wrong With Beauty And The Beast (2017)
In which the Disney Corporation destroys yet another cherished childhood memory.
Colossal: Half A Good Movie, Half A Head-Scratcher
In which we take a look at Nacho Vigalondo’s latest, and lament about half of it.
On Fate and Fury
No single acceptable filmmaking decision led us here. The vast tower of bad choices became something else: a history, a promise.
The Fate of the Furious Remains Unwritten
They are—these characters and these films—an incantation designed to bring about the age of stupid.
Free Fire Is A Blast
It’s the My Dinner With Andre of movie gunfights.