Tuesday, May 13, 2025

Op-eds

Op-ed: The Challenging Women of Pablo Larraín

Pablo Larraín has made a career recently, especially in his last three feature films, delving deep into pain. Specifically, this pain focuses on his female protagonists. There is, of course, an easy...

Op-Ed: Is the Age Gap in ‘Licorice Pizza’ Okay?

With every awards season comes a plethora of films that can make a large impact on the audiences that see it, and we always hope it’ll be a positive one. There’s nothing...

Op-Ed: The Elusive Non-Western John Wayne

John Wayne made a lot, and I mean a lot, of westerns. Legend says he also made enough war movies that people thought he actually served in World War II. Here, however,...

Op-Ed: Age and Consent in ‘Licorice Pizza’

For as long as there has been a film industry, it has been a place where young women are pursued by older men. It's far more obvious outside of the silent and...

My Five Must-Read Autobiographies For Cinephiles

I decided in the last year to start reading books about individuals in film history, especially those who wrote it themselves and express, in their own words, the backstage drama that went...

Op-Ed: AFI’s 100 Years…100 Passions – ‘Ghost’ (#19)

I will be watching and reviewing all of the films included on AFI’s 100 Years…100 Passions list. The list contains the 100 greatest love stories in American cinema and I plan to...

Op-Ed: AFI’s 100 Years…100 Passions – ‘An Officer and a Gentleman’ (#29)

An Officer and a Gentleman (1982) feels out of place in the cinema landscape of the 1980s. It seems like a picture that would have been made in the 1940s, when Hollywood...

Op-Ed: AFI’s 100 Years…100 Passions – ‘The Awful Truth’ (#77)

I will be watching and reviewing all of the films included on AFI’s 100 Years…100 Passions list. The list contains the 100 greatest love stories in American cinema and I plan to...

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