
Time for the next wave in cinema
During the pandemic, once thriving movie theaters suddenly turned into ghost towns. And even though many have reopened since then, [...]

Following a thread of Anderson’s
Paul Thomas Anderson has proven he knows his way around the most inaccessible regions of the human heart. An explorer [...]

The last Oscar
Nobody saw the blatant aggression coming. The world stood by in shock as the blow was delivered. Any progress towards [...]

The art of seeing
At the beginning of “Viewing Booth,” the 2019 documentary by acclaimed filmmaker Ra'anan Alexandrowicz, there’s a reference made to author [...]

Anderson in the details
Wes Anderson is among the most vibrant directors American filmmaking has produced in the last few decades. With each of [...]

Securing the set
In late October, film-making faced its worst-case scenario. On the New Mexico set of the Western “Rust,” the actor Alec [...]

Back to the cinema
If you look for it, you can see it. Just as the house lights dim, and right before the instant [...]

The Courier
Far from the usual take on the Cuban Missile Crisis, “The Courier” seems worlds away from the tense drama of [...]

COVID, meet SCABET
I was always a fan of apocalypse movies. Not the kind that overwhelms you with monsters and aliens, and special [...]

No Hollywood ending
If widescreen Hollywood ever had just cause to lapse into melancholy about its future prospects, that time is now. With [...]

The invisible stalker
In H.G. Wells’s 1897 “The Invisible Man,” Griffin, a scientist and student of optics, carries out a rogue experiment to [...]